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Students win Breast Cancer Startup Challenge

An interdisciplinary group of graduate students including WUSTL’s (from left) Anurag Agarwal, Whitney Grither and Hirak Biswas was one of 10 winning teams in the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge. The international competition aims to bring breast cancer discoveries out of the lab and closer to market to help patients.

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Carter appointed to innovation and entrepreneurship leadership post

​Dedric Carter, PhD, has been appointed to the newly created position of associate provost and associate vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship. Provost Holden Thorp, PhD, and Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration, announced the appointment. Carter has been associate dean for international education and research in the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

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Wind Ensemble to play ‘Wicked,’ ‘Star Trek’ music

Songs from “Wicked,” Stephen Schwartz’s musical reimagining of “The Wizard of Oz,” are among those to be featured on Tuesday, April 29. The WUSTL Wind Ensemble, conducted by Chris Becker, also will present excerpts from “Phantom of the Opera,” “Star Trek” and more in the 560 Music Center.

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Dining-Out military event held at Olin

Retired Lt. Gen. George J. Flynn, who served as deputy commandant for combat development and integration for the U.S. Marine Corps, speaks at a Dining-Out event. The Olin Veterans Association sponsored the dinner last week in the Knight Center. Dining-Out is a formal military tradition aimed at fostering camradarie among members of a company or other unit.

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‘Why we care about the Big Bang (and everything else)’

Mike White, PhD, of WUSTL’s Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, writes in Pacific Standard about human curiosity.

Calendar Highlights

5 p.m. Friday, April 25

Sam Fox communication design reception

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3 p.m. Saturday, April 26

Weidenbaum memorial service

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Noon–5 p.m. Sunday, April 27

Skillshare event

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Announcements

Community Service Office to host program Monday about K-12 Connections

The Community Service Office will hold a brown-bag session at noon Monday, April 28, in the Danforth University Center to discuss ways to expand the K-12 Connections program.

Undergraduate research symposium Monday

The spring Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held from 4-6:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, in Bauer and Knight halls. Students from all disciplines and schools can present their work.

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