Author: Leslie Gibson McCarthy

Last November, Missouri voters approved Proposition B, which amended state law to more strictly regulate large-scale dog breeders. Now, just four months later, Prop B is set to be repealed if the Missouri House of Representatives and Gov. Jay Nixon follow the state senate’s lead. Can this happen in every state? Only if the voters allow it, says Gregory Magarian, JD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on constitutional law.

WUSTL sports updates for the week of March 21, 2011.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton addresses the WUSTL community on how faculty, staff and students can help relief efforts in Japan.

(From left) Brown School students perform a multi-cultural fusion dance during the 17th annual International Festival held March 6 at the 560 Music Building. The theme of this year’s festival was “1 Community, A World of Traditions.”

Paper airplane competitions were only a part of the annual Engineering Week Feb. 20-25. The annual week, sponsored by the School of Engineering & Applied Science, is designed to raise awareness of the profession and included a scavenger “golden mouse” hunt throughout the engineering school, Nerf gun battles and the traditional “Mr. Engineering” pageant.

Sports updates for the week of March 14, 2011.

Rebecca Skloot uncovered the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks, a medical mystery that illuminates the still-murky intersection of medical science, race and class. Her bookThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has won numerous awards and is a New York Times bestseller. She will speak for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, in Graham Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

R. Marie Griffith, PhD, the John A. Bartlett Professor at Harvard University, has been named director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, announced Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Griffith, whose appointment takes place July 1, is known as a pioneer in the study of modern evangelical women.

Standing beneath a portrait of Washington University co-founder William Greenleaf Eliot, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British ambassador to the United States, delivers the annual T.S. Eliot Lecture March 4 in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall. The lecture is named in honor of the famed poet and author who was the grandson of William Greenleaf Eliot. Sheinwald titled his address “Britain and America: An Easy Commerce of the Old and New,” taking a line from T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding, the final poem of his Four Quartet.

James E. McLeod (right), vice chancellor for students, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and a cancer survivor, walks the lead lap with other cancer survivors in the annual Relay for Life March 5-6 at Francis Field. Nearly $260,000 was raised for the American Cancer Society during the 12-hour event that began at 6 p.m. March 5 and ended at 6 a.m. March 6.