The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences has big plans for celebrating the 200th birthday of 19th-century composer Franz Liszt: a daylong symposium Saturday, Feb. 26, followed by an evening concert by Scottish pianist Kenneth Hamilton, renowned for his spectacular performances of Romantic music, particularly the work of Liszt. FULL STORY

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Adeetee Bhide, a senior majoring in biology in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious Churchill Scholarship. Each year, only 14 Churchill Scholars are selected from among 103 American colleges and universities. Bhide is just the second WUSTL student to have ever won a Churchill. FULL STORY

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The Arthritis Foundation has awarded its Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research to Wayne M. Yokoyama, MD, the Sam J. and Audrey Loew Levin Chair for Research in Arthritis and director of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the School of Medicine. FULL STORY

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Junior Chris Dorst orders lunch from WUSTL Dining Services employee Kenya Dampier at a new campus dining location, Stanley’s in Lopata Gallery, on the eatery’s opening day, Feb. 14. Stanley’s — which is located in Stanley and Lucy Lopata Hall — features table and lounge seating and computer stations. MORE

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OUTlaw, the student-run LGBT awareness, advocacy, support and social group at the School of Law, will host “Queer in the Midwest,” the annual Midwest LGBT law conference in Anheuser-Busch Hall Friday-Sunday, Feb. 25-27. FULL STORY

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• 8 p.m. Rolando Lara Memorial Lecture in Romance Languages and Literatures. “The Crisis of the University and Graduate Education Today.” Carlos J. Alonso, Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities, acting dean, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia U. Supported by the James and Mary Moog Lecture Fund. Reception follows lecture. Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge. (314) 935-5175.

• Student art exhibit deadline Friday. All undergraduate students are invited to submit work for inclusion in an ongoing series of exhibitions in the South 40 House and The Village. All media are accepted, but works must be able to be hung. The deadline for inclusion in the next exhibition is Friday, Feb. 25.

• Men’s tennis second at national indoor championship. The WUSTL men’s tennis team advanced to the title match of the 2011 Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Indoor Championship Feb. 20 but fell to No. 4 Emory 6-3 in Fredericksburg, Va. The Bears advanced by defeating No. 9 North Carolina Wesleyan Feb. 18 and No. 5 University of California-Santa Cruz Feb. 19.