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In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Society of Black Student Social Workers at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host a “Financial Freedom Seminar: Achieving Economic Independence Through Education,” from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 2 in Brown Hall, Room 100. The event is designed for members of the St. Louis community interested in building wealth, repairing and maintaining good credit, purchasing a home or starting and expanding a business. The event is free, but participants must register by Friday, Jan. 25.

Jamie Marie Walsh, of the Department of Internal Medicine, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007, of complications from cancer. She was 48.

Undergraduate tuition will be $36,200 for the 2008-09 academic year — a $1,700 (4.9 percent) increase over the 2007-08 current academic tuition of $34,500. The required student activity fee will total $362, and the student health fee will be $686. The announcement was made by Barbara A. Feiner, vice chancellor for finance.

The Shriners Hospital for Children will build a new hospital at the Washington University Medical Center. The new hospital’s location will further enhance research opportunities and clinical care between Shriners Hospital for Children-St. Louis and the School of Medicine.

Jamie R. Graham, died in New York Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. She was 92.

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held on campus biweekly through April 14. Now in its 12th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]

Photo by Whitney CurtisSnowboarder Mike Barthel of Minneapolis, along with five other extreme winter sports professionals, traveled to the University’s North Campus to entertain revelers during the third annual Loop Ice Carnival Jan. 19.

Thomas De Fer, M.D., James Fehr III, M.D., and Mary Klingensmith, M.D., have received the 2008-09 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellowships at the School of Medicine.

The Residential Life Office is making several changes to the housing selection process for the 2008-09 academic year — changes aimed at streamlining the process and encouraging underclassmen to remain residing in a residential college on the South 40 and upperclassmen to transition into apartment living.

Carla A. Hills, J.D., former U.S. Trade Representative, will deliver the School of Law’s Tyrrell Williams Lecture on “Trade and the 2008 Elections” at 4 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom at Anheuser-Busch Hall.