Family members and close friends are more sensitive to early signs of Alzheimer’s dementia than traditional screening tests, according to researchers at the School of Medicine. Researchers developed a two-minute questionnaire for family and friends who know the patient well. FULL STORY

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More than 40 nonprofit organizations staffed the Public Service Fair Sept. 21 at the Danforth University Center. The fair, sponsored by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service, offered students, staff and faculty opportunities to learn about community service and internships. FULL STORY

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Tara Nummedal, PhD, associate professor of history at Brown University, will present “The Lion’s Blood: Anna Zieglerin and the Alchemical Redemption of the World” for the 2010-11 Witherspoon Memorial Lecture in Religion and Science at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. FULL STORY

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WUSTL and the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., have announced recipients of grants from the joint Academic Venture Fund. The fund supports collaborations between scholars at WUSTL and Brookings working on projects that impact research, education and policy. FULL STORY

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• 4 p.m. Dept. of Physics colloquium. “Physics Learning and Classroom Practice: Clinical and Classroom-Based Studies of Physics Cognition.” Jose P. Mestre, prof. of physics and educational psychology, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (314) 935-6276.

• Learn about community-based teaching and learning. The Gephardt Institute invites faculty to apply for grants to support community-based teaching and learning (CBTL). To learn more about the grants program and CBTL overall, faculty can attend four informational sessions, the first of which is at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, Sept. 30, in Eads 217. For more information, visit news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21241.aspx.

• Men’s soccer off to best start in 15 years. Following a pair of road wins over Fontbonne University and Wheaton College, the No. 18 men’s soccer team improved to 7-0-2 overall and is off to its best start in 15 seasons. The Bears return to action Sunday, Oct. 3, hosting No. 10 Emory University at 1:30 p.m. at Francis Field.