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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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WUSTL will host its 11th annual Relay For Life, the signature fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, from 6 p.m. Saturday, April 13, to 6 a.m. Sunday, April 14, on Francis Field. The 12-hour overnight walk-a-thon is symbolic: cancer doesn’t sleep — and neither will participants working to combat the disease.
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As the critically endangered wild ass population makes a comeback, scientists at WUSTL and Ben-Gurion University in Israel are keeping a discreet eye on it with the help of GPS and dung.
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The School of Medicine is playing a leading role in one of the National Institutes of Health’s first clinical trials to improve treatments for rare and neglected diseases. Niemann-Pick Type C is a disorder that causes excess cholesterol to accumulate in the brain, liver and spleen. Affecting about 500 children worldwide, it leads to neurodegeneration and often causes death by age 20.
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Linda Babcock, co-author of Women Don’t Ask: Negotiations and the Gender Divide, will lecture at 9 a.m. Friday, April 12, in Simon Hall. The lecture is part of the “Distinguished Women in Economics and Strategy” series.
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1 p.m. Wednesday, April 10
“A Woman’s Guide to Saving and Investing.” Registration/Event details. Bernard Becker Medical Library, The Kenton King Center. (Note: Same event at 10 a.m. April 11 in Umrath Hall Lounge on Danforth Campus.) Contact: (314) 935-3211 or matthew.roser@wustl.edu.
5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10
"Hungry Children in St. Louis.” Part of a series of casual discussions with St. Louis nonprofit leaders. Sponsored by Gephardt Inst. for Public Service. Free and open to the public. Event details. Danforth University Center, Room 236.
(314) 935-9659.
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A team of four WUSTL students recently won the College Nationals in the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest — a competition in which students build devices to complete a simple task in a minimum of 20 steps. A video catches the students’ elaborate machine in action as a ball bearing sets off a chain reaction that eventually drops a hammer on a nail.
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