WUSTL students, faculty and staff can show their commitment to sustainability by taking the WUSTL Sustainability Pledge at SustainabilityPledge.wustl.edu. The pledge asks those who sign it to live more sustainably at their workplace, school and home by reducing personal energy consumption, producing less waste, conserving resources and recycling. FULL STORY

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A WUSTL team, led by Sarah C.R. Elgin, PhD, is participating in the modENCODE project, a massive effort to map all the elements in model organisms that affect whether genes are silenced or expressed. The work supports the more complex ENCODE project, which is mapping the same elements in the human genome. Together, the projects will “put flesh on the bones” of the Human Genome Project, Elgin says. FULL STORY

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Growing up in Maryland, Shanti A. Parikh, PhD, knew early on she wanted to be an anthropologist. But at the encouragement of her mother, Parikh majored in finance at the University of Virginia. A stint in the Peace Corps following graduation returned Parikh to her original passion and to the area of study that would remain her lifetime focus. FULL STORY

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Mackenzie Asel (left) and Arun Ganti, both second-year medical students, study a painting at the School of Medicine’s Student, Faculty and Staff Art Show in the atrium of the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. The show, on display through Friday, Feb. 11, features photography, painting, mixed media, ceramics and various other forms of art. FULL STORY

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• 8 p.m. Dept. of Music Concert. WUSTL Chamber Orchestra, directed by Elizabeth Macdonald, presents “Follow the Fugue,” a program of fugues in different forms and arrangements. Features violinist Rowena McBeath, resident in orthopedic surgery. Free and open to the public. Graham Chapel. (314) 935-5566.

• Intent to apply deadline for Social Change grants is today. The Community Service Office is providing six social change grants this year totaling $32,000. WUSTL students are invited to build proposals for full-time summer work in the development and implementation of an innovative community project. The intent to apply deadline is today, Jan. 24, and proposals are due Friday, Feb. 11.

• Road warriors. All winter WUSTL sports teams take to the road this weekend. Men’s and women’s basketball travel east to New York University and Brandeis University; swimming & diving has a meet at Principia College in Elsah, Ill., and both track & field teams will participate in the Snow Bird Open in Jacksonville, Ill. Find out how all teams fared in their travels at bearsports.wustl.edu.