WUSTL recycled 556,623 pounds of waste to rank in the top 5 percent nationally in the annual RecycleMania contest’s Gorilla category. WUSTL also increased its diversion rate — or percentage of total waste recycled or reused — by nearly 10 percent during the competition. FULL STORY

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Ken Harrington (second from right), managing director of the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, jokes with members of team Edele, which was awarded $10,000 from the center and the $5,000 student prize during the annual YouthBridge Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition April 14. MORE

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On Wednesday, April 27, the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences will present talks by Richard J. Franke (right), founder of the Chicago Humanities Festival, and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, PhD, president and director of the National Humanities Center, as part of “Celebrating the Humanities Day.” FULL STORY

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Students from the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club Adams Park Unit paint a mural promoting the Tour de Grove bike race in the Grove neighborhood bordering the Washington University Medical Center. The Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corp. received a grant from the St. Cronin Housing Corp. to fund four murals in the neighborhood. MORE

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Pinelopi Goldberg, PhD, the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University, will address “Exchange Rates & Prices: A Micro Approach” for the Distinguished Women in Economics & Strategy lecture series at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, in Simon Hall, Room 103. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by WUSTL’s Center for Research in Economics & Strategy. FULL STORY

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• 11 a.m. EECE Earth Day Seminar. “Lessons of the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill Trust.” Kent D. Syverud, dean, School of Law, and Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor. Sponsored by Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering. Event details. Brauer Hall, Rm. 12. Info: Kim Coleman at (314) 935-5548.

• Washington University Opera performs scenes tonight. The Washington University Opera Workshop will perform excerpts from five operas at 8 p.m. Friday, April 22, at the 560 Music Center. The performance is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences. For more information, call (314) 935-5566 or visit news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/22208.aspx.

• Men’s tennis second at UAA championship. The No. 5 men’s tennis team lost 6-0 to No. 2 Emory University in the 2011 University Athletic Association (UAA) championship match April 17. Emory gains the UAA’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, which begins May 13, while WUSTL (14-5) will wait to see if it is selected for an at-large bid. Next up for WUSTL is Grinnell College Saturday, April 23, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.