Stephen H. Legomsky, JD, DPhil, the John S. Lehmann University Professor at the School of Law, has been appointed chief counsel for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, effective Oct. 24. Legomsky is an internationally renowned scholar on U.S., comparative and international immigration, refugee and citizenship law and policy. 

WUSTL is one of 32 colleges and universities joining a national initiative to reduce high-risk drinking on campuses. Through comprehensive evaluation and measurement techniques, The Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking will identify and implement the most effective ways to tackle an issue affecting nearly four out of 10 college students nationally.

As the fall keynote speaker for the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, E.J. Dionne, PhD, will present his thoughts on “Can Religion and Politics Make Us More Civil and Not Just Angry?” His talk, which also is an Assembly Series program, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in Graham Chapel.

The School of Medicine has opened a new Center for History of Medicine to stimulate student and faculty studies of the ways progress takes place in medicine and science. The center is on the sixth floor of Washington University’s Bernard Becker Medical Library.

WUSTL will test its emergency notification system, WUSTLAlerts, at approximately 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13. The WUSTLAlerts test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time. For the test, WUSTLAlerts will send emails to @wustl.edu addresses, text messages to cell phones and voice messages to cell phones.

4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Lecture

“Usable Traditions: Creating Sexual Autonomy in Post- Apartheid South Africa.” Xavier Livermon, asst. prof. of Africana studies, Wayne State U. Free and open to the public. Seigle Hall, Rm. L006. (314) 935-5102.

Goldstein Leadership Award nominations due tomorrow

Nominations for School of Medicine faculty for the 2011 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education are due at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. The awards acknowledge faculty leadership in medical student education and the tradition and responsibility that teaching faculty demonstrate in training the best and brightest medical students to become physicians who practice medicine of the highest quality.

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Women’s soccer improves to 10-1

The No. 12 women’s soccer team improved its overall record to 10-1 with three home victories last week against Fontbonne University, Illinois Wesleyan University and Carnegie Mellon University. The Bears play their final nonconference game of the season tonight at home at 7:30 p.m. against Webster University.