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Friday, Feb. 22, 2013

 
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WUSTL leaders urge action on sequester threat

WUSTL administrators are urging Congress and the White House to reach a compromise to avoid wide-ranging, across-the-board federal spending cuts that would take effect March 1.

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Graduate students hone communication skills
at research symposium

Brittni D. Jones, a PhD student in the Department of Education in Arts & Sciences, explains her research on geographic disparities in science achievement during the 18th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium. The symposium offers an opportunity for graduate and professional students to present their research to an audience of nonspecialists.

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McBride named chair of MO HealthNet Oversight Committee

Timothy McBride, PhD, professor at the Brown School and an expert on healthcare policy and health economics, has been named chairman of the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee for the state of Missouri.

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WUSTL Wind Ensemble pairs classics, contemporary in Feb. 24 concert

If the answer to a poem is another poem, the answer to music, clearly, is more music. On Sunday, Feb. 24, the WUSTL Wind Ensemble will pair music by Charles Gounod and Johann Sebastian Bach with works from two contemporary composers in a free concert titled “The Old and the New.”

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Students celebrate year of the water snake

More than 150 students performed in this year’s Lunar New Year Festival, making it one of the largest cultural shows on campus. The student performances ranged from juggling to water sleeves (pictured) to a memorable Chinese Lion Dance. All proceeds from the show will go toward covering surgeries for orphans, including reconstructing unilateral cleft lips and palates.

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Calendar Highlights

11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22

Career Center Internship Slam

St. Louis employers give ‘open mic’ pitches to students about summer internship opportunities. Event details. Women’s Bldg. Formal Lounge. (314) 935-5930.

11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23

University College MLA Saturday Lecture Series

“Before the Beginning: Ideology, Civility and Israeli Literature,” Nancy Berg, prof. of Hebrew language and literature. Free and open to the public. Event details. McDonnell Hall, Goldfarb Aud. ucollege@artsci.wustl.edu or (314) 935-6700.

Announcements

Service award nominations due Feb. 28

If you have a coworker in the School of Medicine who deserves recognition for what he or she does, consider nominating that person for this year’s Dean’s Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor awarded to a medical school staff member.

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