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Symposium to address climate change and extinction​​

Leading international figures in climate change research, including Peter Raven, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, will gather on the Danforth Campus tomorrow and Friday, Sept. 10-11, to examine climate change and what it could mean to future biodiversity. The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability is host for the symposium.

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Reward, aversion behaviors activated through same brain pathways​​

New research may help explain why drug treatments for addiction and depression don’t work for some patients. The conditions are linked to reward and aversion responses in the brain. Working in mice, School of Medicine researchers have discovered brain pathways linked to reward and aversion behaviors are in such close proximity that they unintentionally could be activated at the same time.

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Danforth lecture series examines intersection of religion, medicine, law

Issues at the crossroads of religion, medicine and law will be the focus as the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics opens its fall lecture series tomorrow, Sept. 10, with a talk on “Obamacare and American Values.” The lecture is the first in a four-part series.

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Noon Wednesday, Sept. 9

First Year Reading Program staff book discussion

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Noon Wednesday, Sept. 9

‘Convergent Evolution as Natural Experiment’

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8 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 10

Cell biology, neuroscience symposium begins

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Changes made to Eco To-Go program

Dining Services has changed the Eco To-Go program to make it simpler for customers. There’s no longer a $5 buy-in or a keychain token to keep track of. Rather, those not eating in can swipe their university ID card to receive an Eco To-Go container, and then return the box later.

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