Leaders in higher education and international service will come together on the WUSTL campus March 30-April 1 for the International Service and Higher Education Symposium. “International service is not new to higher education, but it is at the threshold of a new era,” says Amanda Moore McBride, PhD. FULL STORY

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Scientists have identified genetic errors in women with autoimmune diseases that increase the risk of preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs in 10 percent of all pregnancies. FULL STORY

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Edward W. Kolb, PhD, a cosmologist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor at the University of Chicago, will deliver two talks Wednesday and Thursday, March 30 and 31, as part of the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by WUSTL’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. FULL STORY

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Last November, Missouri voters approved Proposition B, which amended state law to more strictly regulate large-scale dog breeders. Now, Prop B is set to be repealed if the Missouri House of Representatives and Gov. Jay Nixon follow the state senate’s lead. Can this happen in every state? Only if the voters allow it, says Gregory Magarian, JD. FULL STORY

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Rye Barcott, author of It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace, will present a lecture titled “Spark Change from Within” at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, in the Brown Hall Lounge. Barcott co-founded the organization Carolina for Kibera while an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. FULL STORY

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• 4 p.m. Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Lecture. “Hostility Toward Agentic Women: Backlash Against Active, Powerful Women.” Susan Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton U. Anheuser-Busch Hall, Rm. 320. Contact: women@artsci.wustl.edu or (314) 935-5102.

• Free long distance to Japan offered through April 11. PAETEC, WUSTL’s long-distance carrier, is offering free long-distance phone calls to Japan through Monday, April 11, for the WUSTL community. To use this free service, WUSTL community members must use an authorization code and call from a WUSTL 933 or 935 phone number or use a WUSTL-issued PAETEC calling card. For more information, contact Telecommunications Services at (314) 935-5005 or telecom@wustl.edu.

• Baseball splits doubleheader with Illinois College. Senior first baseman Matt Skinner led the baseball team to a doubleheader split (7-2, 4-5) against Illinois College at home March 22. Skinner batted 6-for-7 with five RBIs and three runs scored, hitting three doubles and a home run. WUSTL (11-11) returns to action today when it hosts the University of Wisconsin-Platteville at 3 p.m.