In the single largest cancer genomics investigation reported to date, School of Medicine scientists have sequenced the whole genomes of tumors from 50 breast cancer patients and compared them to the matched DNA of the same patients’ healthy cells. They uncovered incredible complexity in the cancer genomes, but also got a glimpse of new routes toward personalized medicine. FULL STORY

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The McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences will be hosting one of 10 National Research Council “town hall” events Wednesday, April 6, to roll out the Planetary Science Decadal Survey for 2013-2022. The survey sets priorities for planetary exploration for the next decade by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. FULL STORY

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The Campus YMCA, WUSTL’s largest student-volunteer organization, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Since its inception, Campus Y has been one of the few places where male and female students could collaborate on community projects, such as 1938’s International Bazaar (right). Events kick off at 6 p.m. Friday, April 8, in Holmes Lounge with a dinner and anniversary celebration. FULL STORY

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Love and death: the most primal of motivations. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10, the Eliot Trio — pianist Seth Carlin, violinist David Halen and cellist Bjorn Ranheim — will perform a pair of works by Franz Joseph Haydn and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — works composed, respectively, to honor a doomed romance and a departed friend. FULL STORY

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Margo Jarrell has been named assistant vice chancellor for human resources, benefits and compensation at WUSTL, effective July 2, 2011, announced Ann B. Prenatt, vice chancellor for human resources. Jarrell arrived on campus yesterday and will replace Thomas W. Lauman, who will retire July 1. FULL STORY

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• 9 a.m. Dept. of Psychiatry Ground Rounds. “Can We Learn to ‘Live Long and Prosper’? A Longitudinal Study.” C. Robert Cloninger, Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry. Free and open to the public. Lecture series. Wohl Clinic Bldg., Clopton Aud. (314) 362-2462.

• Stewart to deliver Biggs Lecture April 7. Andrew Stewart, PhD, the Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, will deliver this year’s John and Penelope Biggs Lecture in Classics as part of the Assembly Series. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. For more information, visit news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/22122.aspx.

• Bats come alive in doubleheader sweep. The baseball team experienced an offensive explosion not seen in more than 20 years with a doubleheader sweep of Knox College that stretched the WUSTL winning streak to eight games. WUSTL won the first game, 11-10, then experienced a nearly unparalleled offensive surge in the second, erupting for 25 runs in seven innings for a 25-5 victory.