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Curious who else on campus is tweeting? Join the University Libraries for its winter Tweet Up Wednesday, Jan. 9, in Olin Library’s Ginkgo Reading Room on level 1.

Rita Levi-Montalcini, PhD, a Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who performed the majority of her research at Washington University in St. Louis from 1947-1977, died Sunday, Dec. 30, at her home in Rome. She was 103.

Faculty, staff and other members of the university community are invited to help St. Louis-area homeless while cheering on the men’s and women’s basketball teams as they square off against Brandeis University on Sunday, Jan. 20. The men’s game begins at noon and the women tip off at 2 p.m.

The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and its foundation named five students from Washington University in St. Louis as winners of its national 2012 business essay competition. They are: • Justin Nicks, senior in business• Aloysius Ononye, MBA student• Jonathan D. Jackson, senior in political science in Arts & Sciences• Nneka Onwuzurike, junior in marketing and […]

Century-old Karl D. Umrath Hall’s makeover is winning awards and a coveted environmentally sustainable certification.

“Hope in Action” is the theme of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration at Washington University in St. Louis. The program will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in Graham Chapel and feature a keynote address by Vice Provost Adrienne Davis. A commemoration also is planned on the School of Medicine campus.

Undergraduates must register university-related international travel through a new WUSTL registry, and faculty and staff are encouraged to do so. The registry offers a variety of resources to help travelers if they fall victim to environmental or political upheaval.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton shares some final thoughts after returning from the Fourth International Symposium on Energy and Environment: ACCESS (Abundant Clean Cost-effective Energy Systems for Sustainability) India and a meeting with the university’s International Advisory Council for Asia.

The McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership (MAGEEP) — a consortium of 28 international universities — met in Mumbai, India, last week. S. Parasuraman, director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, was a symposium co-host.

The second half of the trip to India brought together members of the university’s International Advisory Council for Asia (IACA) Dec. 12-15 in New Delhi. U.S. Embassy official Donald Lu addressed the IACA meeting.