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The annual Dean’s Update to the School of Medicine will be Oct. 29 from 2-3 p.m., and Nov. 4 from 10-11 a.m. in Connor Auditorium.

Douglass C. North, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, was fielding calls from around the world after this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics were announced.

Photo by Robert BostonRehan Hasan, a third-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy, sings songs he wrote about relationships at the student coffeehouse.

M. Kenton King, M.D., former dean of the School of Medicine, died Oct. 15, 2009, at his home in University City. He was 84.

Join Milton Ochieng, a medical resident at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine, and his brother Fred, a medical student at Vanderbilt, at the Missouri Botanical Garden on Tues., Nov. 3, for the St. Louis premier of Sons of Lwala. The documentary film details how the Ochieng brothers built a legacy to their father—the first medical clinic in Lwala, Kenya.

KingM. Kenton King dean of the Washington University School of Medicine for nearly 25 years, died Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, at his home in University City. He was 84.

M. Kenton King, M.D., dean of the Washington University School of Medicine for nearly 25 years, died Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, at his home in University City. He was 84.

Poet Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and African American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, has been selected — for the third time — as a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. Phillips was nominated in 2009 for his 10th collection of poetry, “Speak Low,” published this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Washington University in St. Louis will test its emergency notification system, WUSTLAlerts, at approximately 12:50 p.m. Oct. 21. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.

Jeigh Singleton, associate professor of fashion in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, received the First Annual Saint Louis Fashion Week Plaza Frontenac Fashion Achievement Award Oct. 8 during a ceremony at Plaza Frontenac.