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Broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien will present “State of Race: On TV, Behind the Scenes and in Our Lives” for the Assembly Series and the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in Graham Chapel.

To help clarify the increasingly confusing nuclear crisis in Japan in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, two WUSTL scientists and experts in nuclear science and radiation, Henry Royal, MD, and Lee Sobotka, PhD, will offer their expertise in an Assembly Series lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, April 1, in Lab Science Room 300 on the Danforth Campus.

Rye Barcott, author of It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace, is available for interviews Wednesday March 30.

University College, the continuing education and professional studies division in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL, will host a panel discussion titled “Journalism in the Digital Age: Anything Goes?” at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in the Danforth University Center, Room 234. The panel discussion is free and open to the public.

Nate Ferguson, a senior in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is lifted on the shoulders of the other contestants after he was crowned Mr. Wash U March 24 at Edison Theatre. Ferguson was one of 15 students vying for the title. The competition raised more than $35,188 for City Faces, a local nonprofit organization started Bob Hansman, associate professor of architecture.

The final IdeaBounce event of the academic year will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Sponsored by the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, IdeaBounce offers innovators and entrepreneurs from around the region a place to collaborate in the development of new ideas.

Renovations to the WUSTL Campus Store, located in the Mallinckrodt Center on the Danforth Campus, continues. Renovations began in December to expand the store, add a new entrance, update interior space and create a more open floor plan. The expansion will provide more space for academic general books, academic course material, clothing, gifts, convenience items and social events.

Jack C. Taylor, philanthropist and founder of Enterprise Holdings, has given Washington University in St. Louis $25 million for undergraduate scholarships on behalf of the company, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced. The gift will be added to the existing endowed scholarship fund that was established in 2001 by Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car.

Pan Li, PhD, and Junjie Zhang, both trainees in the laboratory of Yoram Rudy, PhD, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, received awards for best poster presentations in the 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms in Galveston, Texas, Feb. 13-18. Li received first prize for his project, “A Model of the Cardiac […]

Members of the Japanese Happy Hour (JHH) sold T-shirts in the Shell Lobby March 23 to raise funds for Japanese relief organizations.