The School of Engineering & Applied Science will dedicate a new building, Preston M. Green Hall, Friday, Sept. 23, and in conjunction will hold the symposium “Challenges & Opportunities in Engineering Education & Research.” The symposium, which will feature National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh, DSc, is open to the public.

Specialists at the School of Medicine, including Rick Wright, MD (left), and Corey Gill, MD, are leading a national study analyzing why a second surgery to reconstruct a tear in the knee’s anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) carries a high risk of bad outcomes. Between 1 percent to 8 percent of ACL repairs fail.

Fatou Bensouda, deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), will discuss the current issues facing the ICC at noon Thursday, Sept. 22, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. She is the recipient of the 2011 World Peace Through Law Award from the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute.

A new study by a finance professor at the Olin Business School finds that the amount of stock options in a CEO’s compensation package can result in an increase in risk-taking by company leaders. Such a finding seems obvious at first blush, but uncovering clean empirical evidence always has been illusive.

7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20

Dept. of Music Concert

Performance by Italian world music band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino. Co-sponsored by Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures. Free and open to the public. 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity Ave., Ballroom Theater. (314) 935-5566.

Emergency communications channels testing continues

WU Emergency Management has vendors on campus again today to install and test various emergency communications channels.

Igor Efimov

Biomedical engineer Efimov works to restore the heart’s rhythm. FULL STORY

Volleyball starts 14-0

The No. 2 volleyball team ran its record to 14-0 in winning the Molten Colorado College Invitational Sept. 16 and 17. The Bears swept all four opponents, picking up three of the wins over teams ranked in the American Volleyball Coaches Association top 25 poll: No. 9 Juniata College, No. 12 Colorado College and No. 15 Concordia College-Moorhead.