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More than 1,200 of the brightest and most innovative minds in the world gathered on the WUSTL campus this past weekend for the sixth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University. A complete story on the weekend will appear in tomorrow’s Record, but the WUSTL News Tumblr blog was updated throughout the weekend. Get the insider’s view here. 
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Researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a new set of genetic markers for Alzheimer’s disease that point to a second pathway through which the disease develops. Much of the genetic research in Alzheimer’s centers on brain plaques in people with the disease. But the new study identified several genes linked to the tau protein, offering potential targets for a different class of drugs.
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?Two prominent environmental thinkers and activists will address climate change, biodiversity and pollution during a lecture Wednesday, April 10, in Whitaker Hall. The lecture is titled “To Hell in a Handbasket? The Global Environment and Sustainability.”
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Thomas J. Bernatowicz, PhD, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, will deliver the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Wednesday, April 10, in Steinberg Hall. He will discuss what cosmic dust carried to Earth by meteorites has revealed about the creation of the elements by stars and supernovas.
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Noon Monday, April 8
The Office of Sustainability offers a gardening and composting brown-bag session on transforming your backyard into a productive landscape. Jean Ponzi, Earthways Center. Free and open to the public. Danforth University Center, Room 234. RSVP: sustainability@wustl.edu.
4 p.m. Tuesday, April 9
Phi Beta Kappa/Sigma Xi Lecture, “The Importance of the Concept of Culture to Science and Society.” Robert W. Sussman, prof. of physical anthropology. Free and open to the public. Event details. Steinberg Hall Aud. (314) 935-4620.
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The Washington University Infectious Diseases Clinic offers free, confidential HIV testing to anyone interested.
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