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Photo by Whitney CurtisAnna Zatonskih (left), the recently crowned 2009 U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, combines chess and roulette with Rex Sinquefield (right), president and chairman of the board of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Oct. 14 in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Sedelle Katz, research assistant in psychiatry from 1971-78 and a visiting lecturer in social work in 1980, died Oct. 12, 2009. She was 86.

Four faculty from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design won a total of six 2009 Design Awards from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

WUSTL physics professors will explore topics in astronomy this fall during the Saturday Science seminar series, sponsored by the Department of Physics and University College, both in Arts & Sciences.

Merle T. Welshans, Ph.D., emeritus professor of finance at Olin Business School, died Sept. 26, 2009, in St. Louis. He was 91.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District will hold a special session at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the School of Law’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The public is invited to hear cases involving a personal injury claim, a domestic violence situation and a lease settlement. The court periodically holds sessions […]

Photo by Robert BostonIt seems like a contradiction: scar-free surgery. But for Brent Matthews, M.D., scar-free surgery is nearing reality. Matthews, chief of the Department of Surgery’s Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, is on the leading edge of innovations to make minimally invasive surgery even, well, less invasive.

Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Ph.D., has been chosen to head the Department of Developmental Biology at the School of Medicine.

The annual fall Undergraduate Research Symposium takes place from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, in the Laboratory Sciences Building.

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.