The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Washington University  announced the discovery by Monticello scholars that a collection of books, long held in the libraries at WUSTL, originally were part of Thomas Jefferson’s personal library. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21917.aspx

How have race relations in America evolved since the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Was the election of Barack Obama truly a milestone? These questions and more will be explored Friday, Feb. 25, with the symposium “Race in the Age of Obama.” Sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and WUSTL, panelists include Gerald L. Early, PhD. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21880.aspx

Location. Budget. Materials. Architecture is the art of negotiating constraints — to say nothing of clients, zoning and the unique history and particular characteristics of a given place. “There’s no such thing as a blank slate,” says Kathryn Dean, a principal of Dean/Wolf Architects in New York and director of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21911.aspx

Members of the Center Aisle Caucus, U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) and U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.), will discuss “A Vision for Civility” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, in the main dining room of the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center. The event is being sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21906.aspx

With support from a new $3.3 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, researchers at the School of Medicine are hunting for normal cells that help brain tumors form and grow. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21626.aspx

• 4 p.m. Dept. of Pathology and Immunology 2011 Paul E. Lacy Lecture. “On Being a Scientist for 60 Years.” Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Free and open to the public. Eric P. Newman Education Center, Main Aud. (314) 362-8748.

• Assembly Series event rescheduled for March 3. Dan Senor, the author of Start Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, whose Assembly Series program was canceled earlier this month because of bad weather, has rescheduled his talk for 4 p.m. Thursday, March 3, in Graham Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

• Men’s tennis, swimming & diving, and men’s and women’s basketball all were in action last weekend. Find out how your favorite team fared by visiting bearsports.wustl.edu.