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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 […]

Siti Syuhada Binte Faizal (left) explains her research during the 16th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium held Saturday, Feb. 26, in the Laboratory Sciences Building. She was among nearly 60 graduate and professional students who presented their work to a broad audience of diverse academic backgrounds.

The New York Times
 Well-oiled security apparatus in China stifles calls for change 03/01/2011 Police react to calls for Middle East-style demonstrations by placing dozens of dissidents and campaigners under house arrest. Carl Minzner, an expert in Chinese law at Washington University in St. Louis, said many courts will coerce plaintiffs into settling lawsuits regardless […]

Washington University will test its emergency notification system, WUSTLAlerts, at approximately 12:05 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, 2011. The WUSTLAlerts test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.

Washington University in St. Louis graduate and undergraduate students recently helped teacher Scott McClintock and his students at Maplewood Richmond Heights Middle School complete a diverse study of wind energy, biomass, solar power, and hydropower, spending an entire week with four different classes.

WUSTL has been named a Tree Campus USA for 2010 by the Arbor Day Foundation. WUSTL is among the first schools in Missouri to receive the honor. Tree Campus USA is a distinction given by the Arbor Day Foundation to recognize schools across the United States for their dedication to healthy campus forestry management and engaging the community in environmental stewardship.

Irish Times (UK) Biblio detective work restores Jefferson legacy 02/27/2011 Thomas Jefferson is acknowledged to have been the US’s most bibliophile president. Washington University in St. Louis has just discovered it owns 74 volumes that belonged to Jefferson, many of them with his notations. So his retirement library has been virtually reconstructed, 182 years after […]

Mental health professional participate in a panel discussion, “When Love Hurts,” Feb. 16 at Seigle Hall on the Danforth Campus. The panel discussed dating violence and what can be done to confront it in a healthy manner. The event was sponsored by the WUSTL Pre-Law Society, Men Organized for Rape Education and Committee Organized for Rape Education.

Freshmen Marissa Cantu and Kelly Gorrell laugh as Dan Nainan, “the biracial standup comedian,” entertains the audience Feb. 18 during the Great Loving Day Banquet in College Hall in the South 40. The Loving Day Banquet is a rememberance of the court case Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in 1967.