Author: Ken Duenke

Photo by Mary ButkusThe annual Report to Washington University Neighbors meeting gives community members to interact with University administrators.

Clifford M. Will, Ph.D., and Ramesh K. Agarwal, Ph.D.

Aging and Alzheimer’s disease research at the School of Medicine recently received a $9.6 million boost. The five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging launches the University’s Healthy Aging and Senile Dementia program into its 21st year.

Keith Boykin, president of the National Black Justice Coalition, will present a lecture on race, sexuality and politics 1 p.m. Nov. 13 in Brown Hall, Room 100. Boykin, a prominent author and speaker, was a special assistant to the President and director of specialty media during President Bill Clinton’s administration.

Anchee Min, whose novels and memoir bring to life the experience of coming of age in Communist China during the rule of Mao Zedong, will speak for the Washington University Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Nov. 10 in Graham Chapel. The lecture/performance is free and open to the public.

John M. Ferren, senior judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, will discuss his new book, “Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge,” 11 a.m. November 10 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Ferren’s book, published by University of North Carolina Press, examines the life of Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, former faculty member and dean of the Washington University School of law.

The project will bring together researchers from 13 departments at the University and from elsewhere in Missouri.

Results from the first reported clinical trial testing the procedure appeared in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

Photo by Tim ParkerDavid Goodwin wrote the book Ghosts of Jefferson Barracks, which traces the history and hauntings of the supernatural at the military post.

Photo by Joe AngelesThe National Association of Secretaries of State unveiled a plaque in Brookings Hall as part of its 100th-anniversary celebration.