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Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014

 
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Library unveils 100-plus hours of digitized conversation about the Great Depression

Washington University Libraries has created a fully searchable digital resource that brings invaluable oral history about the Great Depression within reach. Authors Maya Angelou and Gore Vidal, longtime New York Times political reporter Warren Moscow and the grandson of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt are among those interviewed.

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Alcohol, tobacco, drug use far higher in severely mentally ill

Researchers at the School of Medicine and the University of Southern California have found that rates of smoking, drinking and drug use are significantly higher among those who have psychotic disorders than in the general population.

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Business schools in St. Louis, South Korea launch global finance program

WUSTL and Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, are partnering to offer a unique learning experience to master the complex world of business by earning two degrees on two continents in their new Global Master of Finance dual-degree program.

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Work, Families series begins Monday

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in the continuing series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars held biweekly on the Danforth Campus. The series begins Monday, Feb. 3, with Sean H. Williams, JD, law professor at the University of Texas. His topic is “Dead Children: Tort Law and Parental Investments in Child Safety.”

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OT grad writes about women in need

Cambey Mikush, OTD ’13, guest blogs on the Worldwide Fistula Fund website about helping women with obstetric fistula return to their homes and live independently.

Calendar Highlights

3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29

Internship & Job Career Fair

Spring 2014 internship and career fair, sponsored by the Career Center. (Note: The date listed in yesterday’s issue was incorrect). Until 7 p.m. Event details. Athletic Complex. 314-935-5930.

Noon Thursday, Jan. 30

Global Health Center Visiting Speaker Series

“Can We Deliver Universal Health Coverage? Bridging the Two Cultures” by Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, prof., Kings College, London. (Note: Sullivan will give another lecture Friday, Jan. 31.) Sponsored by the Inst. for Public Health, Siteman Cancer Center and the Brown School. Free and open to the public. Event details. Danforth Campus, Brown Hall Lounge. publichealth@wustl.edu or 314-747-9212.

4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30

AFAS guest lecture

“Groove Theory: A Vamp on the Epistemology of Funk” by Anthony Bolden, assoc. prof. of African and African-American Studies, U. of Kansas. Free and open to the public. Event details. Umrath Hall Lounge. 314-935-5631.

Announcements

PB&Joy seeks volunteers

PB&Joy, WUSTL’s annual food drive, is looking for students, staff and faculty to assist in this year’s effort to collect kid-friendly foods for 135,000 St. Louis-area children.

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Investigating the nexus of religion and politics
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