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Massey to deliver inaugural McLeod Memorial Lecture in Higher Education

Educator, administrator and physicist Walter Massey, PhD, will deliver the inaugural James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture in Higher Education Tuesday, Oct. 2. His talk, titled “Liberal Arts: The Higgs Boson of Higher Education,” begins at 4 p.m. in Graham Chapel.

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Prized professor: Loomis wins outstanding teaching award

Richard A. Loomis, PhD, associate professor of chemistry, received the David Hadas Teaching Award during the Arts & Sciences’ annual faculty reception Sept. 6. The award recognizes a tenured faculty member in Arts & Sciences who demonstrates commitment and excellence in teaching first-year undergraduates.

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Key immune cell may play role in lung cancer susceptibility

New research suggests that a key immune cell may play a role in lung cancer susceptibility. Working in mice, Alexander Krupnick, MD, and colleagues found evidence that the genetic diversity in natural killer cells, which typically seek out and destroy tumor cells, contributes to whether or not the animals develop lung cancer.

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The Hotch playwriting festival this weekend

In drama as in life, there is what we say, and then there is what other people hear. On Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29, three young playwrights will put their words to the test as part of “The Hotch,” WUSTL’s annual A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.

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Poet Matthea Harvey to read Sept. 27 and Oct. 4

In Modern Life, her third book of poems, Matthea Harvey offers a whirling, riffing, buoyantly ironic take on post-9/11 America. At 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, Harvey, the Visiting Hurst Professor of Creative Writing in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work.

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5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27

WUSTL Votes 2012

“Energy and the Environment” panel discussion. Free and open to the public. Event details. Danforth University Center, Room 276. (314) 935-8628 or gephardtinstitute@wustl.edu.

Announcements

Business school makes military friendly list

Olin Business School has been named to the 2013 list of Military Friendly Schools released by GI Jobs magazine. The list honors the top 15 percent of U.S. colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members, veterans and spouses as students and ensure their success on campus.

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Sports Highlights

Women’s soccer improves
to 7-1 with road wins

The No. 12 women’s soccer team improved its overall record 7-1 with a pair of road victories at Illinois Wesleyan University (2-1) Sept. 20 and Rhodes College (3-0) Sept. 22. WUSTL plays its first home game in almost three weeks tonight at 7:30 p.m. against Principia College. The game will be streamed live on Bear TV.

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