WUSTL’s top 11 percent finish in last year’s RecycleMania competition was impressive, but the Office of Sustainability is challenging WUSTL to finish even higher in the 2011 RecycleMania contest, which lasts eight weeks and ends April 2. RecycleMania 2011 pits WUSTL against other colleges and universities to see which campus can keep the greatest amount of waste materials from landfills. FULL STORY

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Strobe Talbott (right), president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and deputy secretary of state from 1994-2001, was on campus Feb. 7 and 8 speaking and meeting with students. FULL STORY

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Peter Burgers, PhD (center), the Marvin A. Brennecke Professor of Biological Chemistry at the School of Medicine, is an expert in DNA replication and repair — fundamental cellular processes shared across organisms, from yeast to humans. FULL STORY

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Eleven faculty members from the School of Medicine were honored Feb. 9 at the 2011 Distinguished Faculty Awards ceremony at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. FULL STORY

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• 5 p.m. School of Law Spring 2011 Intellectual Property Colloquium. “The Cost of Price.” Amy Kapczynski, asst. prof. of law, Berkeley U. Sponsored by WUSTL School of Law’s Intellectual Property & Technology Law Program and Center on Law, Innovation & Economic Growth. Free and open to the public. Seigle Hall, Greenfield Classroom 109. (314) 935-6400.

• Volunteer opportunity at Tsinghua University in Beijing. WUSTL faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students have an opportunity to volunteer for three weeks this summer at one of China’s premier universities, Tsinghua University in Beijing. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, Feb. 15. The goal of the three-week camp, beginning June 22, is to teach and expose Chinese undergraduate students to the English language and American culture. 

• Men’s and women’s basketball wrapped up a four-game road trip with games against the University of Rochester yesterday. For a complete recap of weekend sports action, go to bearsports.wustl.edu.