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Veteran Ian Smith barely graduated from high school. Today, he is earning his degree in global leadership and management in University College in Arts & Sciences and is leading a team of engineers to develop low-cost prosthetics using 3D printers. Smith also volunteers helping train therapy horses for disabled children in a program created by fellow student veteran Mike Pereira.
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Some 10 boxes, weighing more than 100 pounds and carrying everything from breakfast bars, air fresheners, hand sanitizers and home-baked goods, are on their way to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, thanks to WUSTL’s Military Care Package group. With the November mailing, the group reached another milestone. Since 2004, the WUSTL community has donated and shipped more than eight tons of supplies to troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Congressional Medal of Honor is the United States’ highest award for valor in combat. It is very hard to get. Since being signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, only 3,468 medals have been awarded — 70 percent of them posthumously. In Beyond Glory at Edison Theatre Nov. 16, actor and playwright Stephen Lang — perhaps best known as Colonel Quaritch in Avatar — presents a one-man show depicting the stories of eight medal recipients.
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Health-care disparities will be among the topics discussed at the Midwest region’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) annual conference this weekend on the Washington University Medical Campus. School of Medicine students Lawrence Benjamin and Lauren Martin, the university’s SNMA co-presidents, are organizing the conference for medical and premedical students.
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Noon Tuesday, Nov. 12
“Sex, Drugs, and Virulence: High Resolution Imaging of Plasmo-dium Falciparum” by Leann Tilley, prof. of biochemistry and molecular biology, U. of Melbourne. Co-sponsored by Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series and Institute for Public Health. Free and open to the public. Event details. McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg., Cori Aud. (314) 747-9212 or publichealth@wustl.edu.
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13
Presented by David van der Leer, exec. dir. of the Van Alen Inst. in New York. Co-sponsored by Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. (Reception at 6 p.m.) Free and open to the public. Event details. Steinberg Hall Aud. (314) 935-9300.
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WUSTL employees’ annual open enrollment for the health/dental or dental-only plans, the Flexible Spending Accounts, the Health Savings Accounts and the Retirement Medical Savings Accounts will take place from today through Dec. 2.
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Assistant art dean is national
Women on Wheels president.
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