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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

 
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Peck to receive Eliot Society’s ‘Search’ Award

William A. Peck, MD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of the Center for Health Policy, will be presented with the Eliot Society “Search” Award at the 45th annual dinner of the William Greenleaf Eliot Society tonight at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton, Mo.

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Kemper Museum summer exhibit to display works collected for WUSTL by Frederick Hartt

Renaissance scholar Frederick Hartt helped WUSTL build in the 1950s one of the nation’s finest university collections of 20th-century modernism. This summer, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present 27 of those works in Frederick Hartt and American Abstraction in the 1950s.

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New treatment options for kids with diabetes

A combination of two diabetes drugs was more effective in treating 10-to-17-year-olds with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than one, found researchers led by Neil H. White, MD. The multicenter clinical trial was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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Earth Day special: A new garden on campus

Volunteers plant a rain garden on the south side of Eads Hall on the Danforth Campus April 24. As part of Earth Day week activities, university staff, faculty and students were invited to help plant a rain garden (or bioswale) next to Eads Hall.

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Acrobatic Dynamo Theatre at Edison Saturday

Covered in both graffiti and secrets, a simple brick wall alternates between playground and refuge from the world. On Saturday, May 5, Montreal’s Dynamo Theatre will return to St. Louis with Mur-Mur (The Wall), an acrobatic exploration of friendship and young love, as part of Edison’s ovations for young people series.

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9 a.m. Tuesday, May 1

Dept. of Psychiatry Grand Rounds

“The Board Certification Process: Will It Ever Stop Changing?” Nuri B. Farber, prof. of psychiatry. Free and open to the public. Wohl Clinic Bldg., Clopton Aud. fordge@psychiatry.wustl.edu or (314) 362-2462.

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Preparing to move? Donate items to Share Our Stuff

No room in the truck for the futon, extra boxes of macaroni or nearly new T-shirts during move-out? Instead of throwing those items away, donate them to Share Our Stuff (SOS). Drop-off spots for donated items will be located in South 40 and The Village residence halls through Saturday, May 19.

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Sports Highlights

Men’s track wins fourth straight UAA title

The men’s track & field team won its fourth consecutive University Athletic Association (UAA) outdoor title, while the WUSTL women finished as runner-up for the second straight year at the UAA Outdoor Championships April 29 in Pittsburgh.

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