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Baxter is the author of three novels, most recently The Feast of Love (Pantheon, 2000); and four collections of short fiction, including A Relative Stranger (Viking Penguin, 1991) and Believers (Vintage, 1998). He has published a book of essays on the craft of fiction, Burning Down the House (Graywolf, 1997), as well as three collections of poetry, and also has edited three anthologies of fiction and essays.

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The Olin School of Business has launched its new “Olin Cup” entrepreneurship competition with an emphasis on life sciences, medicine, and technology start-ups, as well as other student started ventures. Start-up companies will vie for $70,000 in seed capital funding for their new businesses. Entrepreneurs and students can now review the program guidelines and register for the competition online.

An American Indian powwow, traditional cuisine, crafts, a film and presentations by Kerry Bird and Rebecca Tsosie are among the highlights of Washington University’s American Indian Awareness Week March 17-22.

A new residential Executive MBA program is beginning next September at the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. Classes will meet just once a month from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the business school’s Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center. The program grants a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Washington University in only 18 months.

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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