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Reuters Recurrent muscle injuries plague pro soccer players: study 03/04/2011 About a third of injuries that knock professional soccer players off the field are muscle-related — many of them recurrent injuries that might have been avoided with adequate recovery, a Swedish study said. These injuries usually came from a player running or kicking, and not […]

Many modern copies of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto IV, include the phrase “glitter and light” when describing the beauty of Queen Lucifera. But is that the phrase Spenser intended to depict the self-proclaimed monarch? This is one of many questions that Joseph Loewenstein, PhD, tackles as an editor of a new Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.

It was just like the late Jane Freund Harris to leave a perpetual valentine to the community she loved. In her bequest 12 years ago, she created the Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award for couples who work tirelessly to enhance the St. Louis region. This year’s recipients are Maxine Clark and Bob Fox.

Washington University will test its emergency sirens at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10, as part of a Missouri statewide tornado drill. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time. The drill is part of Missouri Severe Weather Awareness Week March 7-11.

China Economic Review Top tips for cracking the MBA admissions process this year March 2011 The global economic downturn caused a spike in business school applications, but students now seem to be critically examining the cost-benefit of MBA programs. With EMBA programs in particular, relevant and constructive work experience often takes precedence over the importance […]

Gerald L. Early, PhD, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and director of the Center for the Humanities, has been named to the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences established by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Wayne Fields, PhD (left), the Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English in Arts & Sciences and director of the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics leads a discussion that includeded three members of Congress on the roles that citizens, elected leaders and the media play in promoting civility in a democratic society during a forum titled “A Vision of Civility” Feb. 24 in the Knight Center.

Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British ambassador to the United States, will deliver a major policy address at 4 p.m. Friday, March 4, in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall, at Washington University in St. Louis. He will discuss the alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom. His talk, “Britain and America: An Easy Commerce of the Old and New,” is part of the annual T.S. Eliot Lecture.

The annual Relay For Life will be held Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6, at Francis Field’s Bushyhead Track at Washington University in St. Louis. The relay is a 12-hour family-friendly event that raises money for the American Cancer Society. More than 1,700 volunteers, participants and supporters will be on hand for the fundraiser that already has generated $180,000 this year for cancer research, advocacy, patient services and education.

BBC (UK) Exercise cuts bowel cancer risk 03/02/2011 Regular exercise reduces the risk of developing polyps, which can lead to bowel cancer, according to a study led by Kathleen Wolin of the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. The study shows a clear link between exercise and a reduced risk of bowel cancer […]