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The University Bear Cub Fund is soliciting grant applications from University researchers who want to move inventions from their laboratories toward commercialization.

The Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the International and Area Studies Program have established the Washington University International Service-Learning Program, a pilot initiative designed for undergraduates to have a transformative service experience overseas.

Robert BostonThrough echocardiographs and summer camps, Angela Sharkey makes an impact.

Constitutional scholar Derrick Bell will present the first program in a full schedule for the Assembly Series’ 2008 spring semester. Among the Series’ speakers are scientists, legal scholars, writers and sex experts, plus a concert performed by the St. Louis Symphony. For more information on the spring calendar visit assemblyseries.wustl.edu or call 935-5285.

Eighteen School of Medicine faculty will be recognized Jan. 23 with the first Distinguished Faculty Awards.

Margaret Walker Skinner, Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology and director of the Cochlear Implant and Hearing Rehabilitation Program, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital after a long illness. She was 72.

Gwendolyn Randall, research patient coordinator at Siteman Cancer Center, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital of complications from cancer. She was 52.

Robert BostonAveri Leahy, a junior in the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Associates’ Program (PEMRAP), talks with Jan D. Luhmann, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and a PEMRAP co-director, in the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Emergency Department. Students in the PEMRAP program check the admissions computer for patients who may qualify for clinical studies.

Washington University received the Institution of the Year award from the St. Louis Minority Business Council (SLMBC) at its annual awards banquet Dec. 6 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis. The SLMBC’s Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (MBEIC), made up of 17 minority business owners, selected WUSTL as Institution of the Year. […]

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.”More Than a Dream…Living the Dream” is the theme of the University’s 21st annual celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m. Jan. 21 in Graham Chapel.