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Breast cancer test developed at WUSTL gets
FDA approval

A laboratory testing kit that estimates the risk of breast cancer returning after anti-hormone treatment has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The technology is a step toward personalized medicine and could help standardize breast cancer diagnosis around the world. School of Medicine researchers led the test’s development.

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Trustees meet, hear reports on Brown School, endowment and construction projects

At the WUSTL Board of Trustees meeting Friday, Oct. 4, the trustees heard special reports on the Brown School and the university’s endowment. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton provided a construction update and an overview of the diverse and talented freshman class.

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Poet Geoffrey G. O’Brien to read Thursday

In Green and Gray, Geoffrey G. O’Brien fashions poetry from neighborhood fliers and political speeches, mixing phrases from Dante, the Patriot Act and Jean Genet. That mingling of personal and political also informs People on Sunday, O’Brien’s latest, and most autobiographical, collection. Thursday, Oct. 10, O’Brien will read from his work for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences’ fall Reading Series.

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Former football All-Americans share memories

WUSTL graduates and football players Jeff Doyle, Matt Gomric, Michael Lauber and Tim Runnalls sat down recently to discuss their four years on the Danforth Campus — and how much it meant to be named All-Americans.

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Noon Monday, Oct. 7

Work, Families and Public Policy series

“The Demography of Marital Decline: Economics, Culture or Something Else?” by Amy Wax, Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, U. of Pennsylvania. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsors/event details. Seigle Hall, Room 348. Contact: Bob Pollak at pollak@wustl.edu or (314) 935-4918.

4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7

Assembly Series’ Thomas Hall Lecture

“Embryos in Evolution and Evolving Embryos: An Historical Overview” by Brian Hall, PhD, professor emeritus, Dalhousie U. Co-sponsored by Dept. of Biology in Arts & Sciences. Record story. Free and open to the public. McDonnell Hall, Room 162. (314) 935-5137.

Announcements

Libraries conduct service quality survey

Washington University Libraries invite faculty, staff and students to complete a survey and evalute the libraries’ collections, services and facilities. The survey will be available online starting today, Oct. 7, through Oct. 25.

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