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Los Angeles Times Senate veers to the right with GOP wins 11/03/2010 The U.S. Senate will undergo a distinct rightward shift as a result of Tuesday’s election, which ushered in conservative, “tea party”-backed candidates and prompted incumbents from both parties to look warily to the next election. “These guys are going to be moving to […]

Jonathan Zimmerman, PhD, professor of education and history at New York University, will present “Beyond Bedrooms and Borders: What a Historian of American Sex Education Learned by Looking Overseas,” for the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

The Globe & Mail (UK) Physicians’ group: Specialist should review all suspected concussions 11/1/2010 Athletes of all ages who are suspected of suffering a concussion should be evaluated by a specialist before they return to sports, a major doctors’ group said Monday in the latest sign of concern over potential lasting damage from head injuries. […]

The WUSTL Police Department is teaming up with the Kurt Warner First Things First Foundation and Operation Food Search for the 10th annual Warners’ Warm-up winter-coat drive. Through Nov. 14, the WUSTL police station will serve as a drop-off location for students, faculty, staff and others to donate new or gently used winter coats.  

Associated Press Contraception could be free under health care law 11/01/2010 Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law. But first, look for a fight over social mores, suggests the Associated Press in a story […]

The Campus Store will give WUSTL faculty and staff members an opportunity to do some early holiday shopping. The store will hold its 13th annual Faculty/Staff Appreciation Event Tuesday, Nov. 9, and will offer a 30 percent discount to faculty and staff members from 3-8 p.m. 

Women undergraduate and graduate students can discuss post-graduation choices and how to attain a successful, fulfilling life at “Composing a Life” Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. at the Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300. The discussion, hosted by the Women’s Society of Washington University, will feature five women with career experience in an array of fields, from engineering to business to nonprofit.

CBS NEWS Mars Rover finds signs of buried water on red planet 10/29/2010 The sandy spot where the Mars Rover Spirit got bogged down last year harbors stratified layers of dirt with different compositions close to the surface, a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research reveals. These layers were likely caused by seepage […]

Errol Sandler, PhD (right), associate dean of the Sever Institute of Continuing Studies in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, leads a group of riders from the Danforth Campus on a bike ride through Forest Park Oct. 20 during Campus Sustainability Day. The ride was held to raise awareness of alternate forms of transportation.

The annual health open enrollment period for the health/dental or dental-only plans, the health- and child-care flex spending plans, the Health Savings Account and the Retirement Medical Savings Account will be from Nov. 1-30. Enrollments and changes to these plans made during the open enrollment period and before the Nov. 30 deadline will be effective Jan. 1, 2011, for calendar year 2011.