As co-founder and president of Washington University Student Veterans Association, law student David Marold successfully advocated for the expansion of the Yellow Ribbon program at the School of Law. He has recruited talented, if occasionally nontraditional, candidates, and he has connected student veterans to university resources and a robust alumni network.

Harold Pollack, PhD, co-director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, will be on campus to discuss socio-economic and school-based approaches and strategies for reducing gun violence and why they have or have not worked. His lecture, part of the university’s yearlong gun violence initiative, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in Hillman Hall’s Clark-Fox Forum.

This year marked the 10th annual research training symposium and poster session in which students, residents and junior faculty on the Medical Campus present basic, clinical and translational research projects. It’s also the fifth year that students from Meharry Medical College in Nashville participated in the program and the School of Medicine’s Summer Research Program.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to consider the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act. A decision siding with large nonprofit corporations in this new case would mean that employers prevail at significant cost to employees, said Elizabeth Sepper, JD, a religious freedom and health law expert.