WUSTL’s campus-wide entrepreneurship curriculum has been recognized as one of the best in the country by the Princeton Review survey published in Entrepreneur Magazine today. Both the undergraduate and graduate programs placed in the top 10 out of more than 2,000 schools. FULL STORY

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Missouri has one of the highest statewide smoking averages in the country, more than 23 percent. A recent report by the Center for Tobacco Policy Research finds that racial and ethnic minorities, people with lower incomes and education levels, Medicaid recipients, and the LGBT community smoke or experience secondhand smoke at a rate significantly higher than the state average.  FULL STORY

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A drug commonly used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) successfully treats adults whose asthma is not well controlled on low doses of inhaled corticosteroids, says a new study led by Mario Castro, MD. FULL STORY

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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon leaves Brauer Hall with his wife, Georganne Wheeler Nixon, Sept. 17 after outlining his vision for the state’s energy future. Nixon spoke to a group of CEOs and other leaders of major energy producers as well as industrial and commercial energy consumers at the “Energy Policy Discussion.” FULL STORY

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Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, PhD, received the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Leadership Award and William E. Wallace, PhD, received the David Hadas Teaching Award during Arts & Sciences’ annual faculty reception. Dean Gary S. Wihl, PhD, presented the awards and also introduced new faculty. FULL STORY

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• 5 p.m. I-CARES/Department of Biology/Weidenbaum Center Forum. “The Velocity of Climate Change.” Chris Field, dir., Dept. of Global Energy, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and prof. of biology and environmental earth system science, Stanford U. Graham Chapel. (314) 935-5652.

• Public Service Fair today. The Gephardt Institute will host a Public Service Fair from 4:30-6 p.m. today in the Danforth University Center Tisch Commons and Edison Family Courtyard. The event features more than 40 nonprofit organizations offering a variety of community service and internship opportunities and is open to students, faculty and staff as well as the local community.

• Volleyball team on a roll. The top-ranked volleyball team improved its record to 14-0, winning the DePauw University Invitational Sept. 18 and preserving its undefeated season. The Bears opened with a come-from-behind victory in a tight, five-set thriller with No. 2 Juniata College in a rematch of the 2009 NCAA Division III championship. They followed up by beating No. 13 Carthage College, 3-0, in the tournament title match.