Improved communication among health-care providers during shift changes reduced injuries due to medical errors by 30 percent, according to a multicenter study. The research involved St. Louis Children’s Hospital and eight other academic medical centers. Study co-author F. Sessions Cole, MD (left), visits with attending physician Amanda Emke, MD.

A consortium of 65 scientists recently announced in the journal Science that they have so far found seven probable, but not confirmed, interstellar dust specks in a collector returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft in 2006. Washington University undergraduates found three of them.

‘Read more’ to see if you can spot the specks.

The Brown School Policy Forum will present “The University, the Community, and Race” at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, in Brown Hall Lounge. Larry E. Davis, PhD, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh, will give the talk, which is part of the “Ferguson and Beyond” lecture series.

Best-selling novelist Curtis Sittenfeld will close the fall Assembly Series with a talk on “St. Louis, Novels, and St. Louis Novels” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium. The lecture, sponsored by University Libraries, is also the annual Neureuther Library Lecture.