Marianne Hirsch, PhD, a member of the Holocaust “second generation” and co-author of Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz, will be at WUSTL at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, to deliver the Holocaust Memorial Lecture in Graham Chapel. The Assembly Series program is titled “Rites of Return: The Afterlife of the Holocaust in Jewish Memory.” FULL STORY

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Todd T. Milbourn, PhD (left), was installed as the Hubert C. and Dorothy R. Moog Professor of finance Sept. 29 in a ceremony at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education and Conference Center. Milbourn, who joined the Olin Business School faculty 10 years ago, is the second to receive this title. FULL STORY

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Since Josh Walehwa (right) and his family left Uganda in 1976, Walehwa, associate director of residential life, has been surrounded by teachers who have encouraged and inspired him to aim higher and think bigger. But no mentor has been as important as his mother. FULL STORY

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Robert J. Rothbaum, MD, a pediatric gastroenterologist at the School of Medicine, has been appointed the inaugural Centennial Professor of Pediatrics. FULL STORY

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• 5 p.m. Coffee Break Panel. “Promoting Diversity at Wash U.” Shelley Milligan, assoc. provost. Sponsored by Graduate Student Senate Diversity Committee. Free. Danforth University Center, Liberman Graduate Center, Rm. 300. (562) 745-8862.

• Memorial service for G. Robert Blackburn Nov. 13. A memorial service for G. Robert Blackburn, the university’s director of community and government relations from 1972-1992, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Knight Center, Room 200. To RSVP, contact Jane Miller at (314) 935-5752 or janemiller@wustl.edu. To read Blackburn’s full obituary, visit news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21280.aspx.

• Cross country, football and women’s soccer in action. The cross country team competed Friday evening at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Invitational, and the Bears football and women’s soccer teams played home games Saturday vs. Oberlin College and Fontbonne University, respectively. To see how they fared, visit bearsports.wustl.edu.