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Chuck Rickert, a student in the M.D./Ph.D. program, heard a radio show that inspired him to donate a kidney to a stranger.

Washington University in St. Louis will test its Emergency Notification System at noon Monday, March 2. The test will be held in conjunction with St. Louis County’s monthly siren test, which occurs at 11 a.m. on the first Monday of each month.

Phyllis C. Rogier, departmental accountant in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, of a heart attack at her home in St. Louis. She was 55.

Bon Appétit Management Company, the University’s dining services vendor, will be offering free food samples from local farmers from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 25 in Room 276 of the Danforth University Center.

Students, staff and faculty are invited to volunteer by Feb. 27 for a new component of the Each One Teach One program: Helping high school students prepare for Advanced Placement exams.

The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability will hold an open house at 4 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Wilson Hall Third Floor Atrium.

Photo by Herb WeitmanHaving undergone a renovation, Steinberg Hall will take the spotlight at a rededication celebration Monday, Feb. 23, that includes renaming Steinberg Auditorium after Etta Eiseman Steinberg (left).

The inauguration of the first African-American president was a milestone in American race relations, but to most members of a minority, the judgment that the U.S. is now a post-racial society is quite premature. On February 25, at 4 p.m. in the Danforth University Center, several WUSTL students and faculty will gather to lead a conversation about race and identity. The Assembly Series event, free and open to the public, will be held in the Center’s Fun Room.

The Children’s Discovery Institute has awarded 15 new research grants, bringing the total investment in finding cures and treatments for devastating childhood diseases to more than $11.5 million since 2006. The new awards, which began Feb. 1, total just over $4 million and were given to 15 researchers in seven departments at the School of […]

Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, delivered “A Comparative Overview of Primate Social Organization” during the annual AAAS meeting in Chicago.