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The St. Louis Regional Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (STLR-HERC) launched its Web site, stlrherc.org, announced Laurel Sgan, the STLR-HERC’s director. The Web site features a search engine of available positions at academic institutions throughout the St. Louis region. Also included on the Web site are resources for those interested in relocating to the St. Louis […]

The print Record will not be published next week due to spring break. Any late-breaking news of importance to the WUSTL community will appear in the eRecord Monday, March 10.

Students or employees who do not currently hold an annual parking permit but wish to store their vehicles on campus during spring break may do so after obtaining a placard from Parking Services. Individuals must go to the Parking Services office, located at North Campus, during regular business hours to fill out an emergency contact form and receive a complimentary parking placard to display on the vehicle dashboard.

Jianmin Cui, Ph.D., Washington University’s Central Underground Garage, and Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.

University students who have a passion for collecting books can compete for prizes of $1,000 or $500 by entering the 21st annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.

The Interfaculty Initiative for American Indian Affairs (IIAA) is sponsoring the Witaya Lecture Series, a program that focuses on topics related to American Indian and Alaskan Native studies. Witaya means “coming together as a community” in the Lakota language. The series was scheduled to begin March 4 with a lecture by Puneet Sahota, an M.D./Ph.D. […]

Stephen D. Williamson, Ph.D., has been named the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences. Robert McCarter has been installed as the Ruth & Norman Moore Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Willie Cole, *Sole Brother 1*The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.

School of Medicine physicians and glaucoma researchers will join eye-care professionals around the world March 6 to observe the first World Glaucoma Day.

Photo by David KilperPeter J. Kastor, Ph.D., associate professor of history and of American culture studies, both in Arts & Sciences. He’s been known to launch a lecture with the “Davy Crockett” theme song, tap academic potential in students before they realize it in themselves and convert physics majors to scholars of the American frontier.