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From traditional foods to lively entertainment, international students at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will offer a taste of their homelands at the ninth annual International Festival 5-9 p.m. April 11 in Brown Hall.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work will inaugurate its program, Alliance for Building Capacity (ABC), with a celebration on April 9 from 5-6:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge. Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, Ph.D., Washington University Distinguished Visiting Scholar and professor emerita at the University of California at Berkeley School of Social Welfare, is the featured speaker, and will speak on “Cultural Competency and Agency Practice: Challenge or Opportunity.”

Katharina Sieverding, professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and one of the most significant German artists of her generation, will speak about her work for the Washington University Gallery of Art at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 2.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have completed sequencing the genome of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, one of the most prevalent bacteria that live in the human intestine. The results appear in the March 28 issue of the journal Science.

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Student group Green Givens will sponsor the week of exhibitions, talks and film screenings at the School of Architecture’s Givens Hall April 11-18.

Design, illustration and advertising majors have created Web sites showcasing new accessibility components of Macromedia Flash MX, the increasingly popular authoring tool for Web interfaces.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is today and runs from 5-9 p.m. in Brown Hall.

He served as interim dean of the School of Law in 1951.

All three may involve the same gene; the finding “may provide insight into a variety of conditions,” says lead reasearcher Jeffrey H. Miner.