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Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo”Magic Mark,” a.k.a. Chancellor Mark S. WrightonLooking for high-resolution digital images to illustrate news coverage of Washington University’s 150th birthday? Look no further than the Birthday Party Gallery, an online archive offering easy access to print quality images from party events on both the Hilltop and Medical School campuses.

The university passed the 150-year mark this year. And on Sunday it’s throwing itself a very public birthday bash, complete with more than 200 activities between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the main and medical school campuses. It’s a family affair with lots of kid stuff and a birthday cake, 8 feet in diameter and made of lollipops in the school’s colors, red and green. Everything is free and everyone is invited.

A study has provided key information about kidney development that could have implications for tissue regeneration.

Both the Medical School bookstore and the Campus Store on the Hilltop Campus will be holding sales in the next week.

The media are invited to cover Washington University’s 150th birthday party on Sept. 14. For more information on the day’s activities or to find out about media parking, media assistance or for story and photo ideas, refer to this media advisory.

Paul A. Volcker, a former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will deliver the Assembly Series lecture at Washington University. The talk will take place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24 in Graham Chapel, located just north of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth Blvd.) on the Washington University campus. Assembly Series lectures are free and open to the public. Volcker’s talk is also the John M. Olin School of Business’ Sesquicentennial lecture.

Student Life, the 125 year-old independent student newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis, will be celebrating that milestone with a reunion Sept. 12-14. Expected to attend and speak are former Student Life writers Michael Isikoff (A&S ’74), investigative reporter for Newsweek magazine who broke the Monica Lewinsky story in 1998; Ken Cooper (A&S ’77), national editor for The Boston Globe; and Mike Peters (A&S ’65), creator of the “Mother Goose and Grimm” comic strip.

The forum will be led by a panel of experts discussing how certain social issues affect all of us and how we affect them.

Visitors to the University’s home Web site might have a nice surprise waiting for them: It’s been redesigned. Improving appearance and ease of use were two of the main goals. “We redesign the main Univer-sity Web site on a two-year cycle to keep it fresh-looking, and to adjust our content and navigation to reflect what […]

The goal for the 2003 campaign is $500,000; University faculty and staff members should have already received pledge cards.