Addiction researchers at the School of Medicine have found that a risk for alcoholism also may put individuals at risk for obesity, and the association between a family history of alcoholism and obesity risk has become more pronounced in recent years. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21680.aspx

Adrienne D. Davis, JD, the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, has been appointed vice provost, effective Feb. 1. Edward S. Macias, PhD, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, made the announcement of this new position. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21670.aspx

For someone who grew up on the East Coast and spent much of his career on the West Coast, George Van Hare, MD, chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, certainly seems at home in the Midwest. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21659.aspx

The Washington University Chamber Orchestra, directed by Elizabeth Macdonald in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will present “Follow the Fugue,” a concert of fugues in a variety of forms and arrangements, at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24, in Graham Chapel.  FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21738.aspx

Life expectancy was probably the same for early modern and late archaic humans and did not factor in the extinction of Neandertals, suggests a new study by Erik Trinkaus, PhD, professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21729.aspx

In remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr., the Society of Black Student Social Workers at the Brown School will host the fifth annual “Financial Freedom Seminar: Recovering from the Recession, Reaching for the Future” from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in Brown and Goldfarb halls. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21690.aspx

• 4:15 p.m. Dept. of Philosophy Colloquium. “War and Associative Duties.” Seth Lazar, research assoc., Inst. for Ethics, Law & Armed Conflict, Oxford U., England. Wilson Hall, Rm. 214. (314) 935-6670.

• Still time to submit plays for Hotchner contest. All WUSTL students are invited to submit scripts for the 2011 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition until Friday, Jan. 21. Selected plays will be workshopped over a two-week period this fall with a guest dramaturg, WUSTL actors and a Performing Arts Department faculty director. One winning play will be selected for production during the 2012-13 season.
• Welcome back! With classes starting today, the Record resumes its regular schedule and will publish an e-mail five days per week, Monday through Friday, throughout the spring semester.

• WUSTL sports back on track. Men’s and women’s basketball, swimming & diving, and the WUSTL indoor track & field team saw action over the holiday weekend. Find out how your favorite teams fared at bearsports.wustl.edu.