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“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.

Tis the season for perennial battles between true believers and atheists, between mass marketers and the devout souls who worry about blatant commercialization of “the holiday season.”  While it may seem like it’s getting worse then ever, learning more about the facts behind these arguments might help all of us understand one another a bit better, suggest legal and religious history experts at Washington University in St. Louis.

WUSTL experts offers tips on understanding the perennial Christmas culture clashes, as well as a round-up of 13 New Year’s resolutions designed to help you become healthier, happier and wiser in 2013.

Leila Nadya Sadat, JD, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, added another international honor to her resumé recently when she was appointed special adviser on Crimes Against Humanity by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

Still looking for that perfect holiday gift to buy? A book by a Washington University faculty author could be the answer to the devoted readers on your list. More than 90 WUSTL faculty books have been published over the past three years.

School of Medicine faculty, staff and students will perform their second annual winter concert at 6 p.m. Jan. 12 in the lobby of the Center for Advanced Medicine.