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The University marked the acquisition of its “One Hundred Years of Little Black Sambo” collection with a reception Oct. 12 at Olin Library. Most of the collection’s 234 items — which include books, puzzles, dishes, games and figurines — were created between 1899 and 1999.

Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut and moonwalker, will discuss “A Journey to the Moon!” on Nov. 1 in Brookings Hall, Room 300, at Washington University. His talk, which is free and open to the public, will immediately follow a public ceremony at 2:30 p.m. in which he will present WUSTL Arts & Sciences senior Lonia Friedlander with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.

• Lane closures are scheduled between the Highland Terrace bridge and Bellevue Avenue through Oct. 26. • Eager Road will be closed Oct. 27 at the I-170 intersection for the installation of a sewer line.

School of Medicine research has opened the possibility that physicians may be able to use established drugs to treat brain tumors.

William F. Stenson, M.D., has been named the Dr. Nicholas V. Costrini Professor of Gastroenterology & Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the School of Medicine.

Andrey Shaw, M.D., the Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology, has been named an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Jose M. Capriles Flores, and David L. Browman, Ph.D.

Photo by Mary ButkusAlumnus A.E. Hotchner, a renowned author, playwright and editor, read an excerpt from “The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner” and signed autographs Oct. 17 at Olin Library.

Cheryl Block, J.D., Jeff Catalano, Ph.D., Mariska Leunissen, Ph.D., and Ron Shalev, Ph.D.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District will hold a special session at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 25, in the School of Law’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The public is invited to hear cases involving the breach of a contract in the construction of a parking lot, a wrongful death case, and the criminal appeal of a grandfather convicted of child molestation.