WUSTL is celebrating Earth Day Friday, April 22, but many sustainability-themed events are planned for the week of April 18-23 throughout the Danforth and Medical campuses. These include an owl walk, bike ride, Low-Carbon Cook-Off and Green Cup awards ceremony. FULL STORY

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Rafia Zafar, PhD, will discuss the role of food, and of meals shared and meals denied in the struggle for American citizenship, in the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in Lab Sciences, Room 300. It is free and open to the public. FULL STORY

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What does it take for a family in the United States to have long-term economic security and not just “get by”? This question inspired the creation of the Basic Economic Security Tables Index (BEST), a joint effort of Wider Opportunities for Women and the Center for Social Development at the Brown School. FULL STORY

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The School of Medicine has the only Emergency Medical Services (EMS) program in Missouri that routinely sends emergency medicine physicians along with its own ambulances to treat trauma patients at disaster scenes. A video details how Washington University EMS physicians train with local emergency responders out in the field. FULL STORY

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Provost Edward S. Macias, PhD, reads to children at the university’s Family Learning Center April 11 to kick off the Week of the Young Child at the center. The week is an annual celebration that focuses on the needs of young children and their families and recognizes the childhood programs and services that meet those needs.  MORE

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• 1 p.m. Dept. of Psychology Social and Personality Brown Bag. “The Role of Risk Perception and Preference in the Relationship Between Anger and Support for War.” J.P. Schott, graduate teaching asst. in psychology. Free and open to the public. Psychology Bldg., Rm. 215. (314) 935-6565.

• Siren test to take place April 18. WUSTL will test its outdoor warning sirens on the Danforth Campus between noon and 12:30 p.m. Monday, April 18. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.

• Baseball stadium to be dedicated to Irv Utz. The Irv Utz Stadium dedication celebration and baseball alumni reunion will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 16, in conjunction with the Bears’ game against Principia College. More than 100 alums spanning several decades are expected to attend, along with Utz family members, to name the stadium after the former WUSTL coach and administrator.