This year, all WUSTL campuses will join forces for the first-ever campus-wide food drive. The PB&Joy food roundup begins Wednesday, April 13, and runs through Sunday, April 24. Its goal is to collect enough food to feed area children who will be home from school and at risk of hunger this summer. FULL STORY

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A time capsule containing items donated by students, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, Dean James E. McLeod, WUSTL Dining Services and others to describe life at WUSTL in 2011 was buried on the South 40 during a ceremony April 2. It will be opened again during the Class of 2011’s 50th reunion in 2061. MORE

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Molly Tovar, EdD, director of the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the Brown School, lives her life by four Rs: Relationships, Responsibilities, Reciprocity and Redistribution. “Redistribution is the sharing obligation. Its primary purpose is to balance and rebalance relationships,” she says. FULL STORY

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Three WUSTL faculty members are being honored this month by the Academy of Science of St. Louis: Marcus E. Raichle, MD; Timothy Eberlein, MD; and Linda S. Cottler, PhD. The mission of the academy is to “foster the advancement of science and encouragement of public interest in and understanding of the sciences.” The awards will be given Wednesday, April 13, at a dinner at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel. FULL STORY

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Ireland native Maria Bernadette Majella Doyle, MD, assistant professor of surgery at the School of Medicine and a member of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital organ transplantation team, will present the annual Women’s Society Adele Starbird Lecture at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, in Graham Chapel. Doyle’s talk, part of the Assembly Series, will provide insight into the life of a transplantation surgeon. FULL STORY

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Students dance on a new LED dance floor at the dance party Vertigo April 2. The floor was built by WUSTL engineering students and has more than one billion colors and 32,000 lumens of LED light. The wireless computer-controlled modular dance floor includes interactive animations based on music synchronization and pressure sensors. MORE

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• 6:30 p.m. Sam Fox School Faculty Book Lecture. Kathryn Dean, prof. and dir., Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. Dean/Wolf Architects: Constructive Continuum will be available for purchase. Reception at 6 p.m. precedes lecture. Free and open to the public. Steinberg Hall Aud. (314) 935-6200.

• Thurtene Carnival parking closures. Work continues on setting up this weekend’s Thurtene Carnival, and campus parking continues to be affected through Wednesday, April 20. Spots are limited on the corner of Lot 4, and westbound Brookings Drive is closed. Complete details and alternative parking options in Announcements.

• Softball hosts cancer awareness event at doubleheader. The softball team hosted a StrikeOut Cancer event during a doubleheader Sunday, April 10, against local rival Webster University. Find out how the softball team and other WUSTL sports team fared over the weekend at bearsports.wustl.edu.