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Due to a change in production scheduling, the Assembly Series program featuring actor Kal Penn Oct. 25 has been cancelled. There are no immediate plans to reschedule. For further updates visit assemblyseries.wustl.edu or call 935-5285.

All University faculty members are invited to submit proposals for academic research projects addressing aspects of entrepreneurship in their areas of discipline or cutting across disciplines. Each research project may receive up to $40,000 for each year of work for up to two years. The funding is provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Robert and Julie Skandalaris.

Studying efforts to combat obesity in children, a research team led by School of Medicine investigators has found that children who lose weight are able to keep it off more effectively if they participate in a maintenance-targeted treatment program, although the effectiveness of the maintenance program lessens over time.

This year Founders Day attendees will get a two-for-one bonus when the powerful political couple Mary Matalin and James Carville deliver the keynote address. Matalin and Carville, top political strategists for the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively, and married since 1993, will appear at the Alumni Association’s annual gathering to commemorate the founding of Washington University at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at the America’s Center in downtown St. Louis.

Peter Humphrey, M.D., Ph.D., has been named the Ladenson Professor of Pathology in the Department of Pathology and Immunology. As the Ladenson professor, Humphrey becomes chief of the newly renamed Division of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology within the department.

Susan E. Mackinnon, M.D., has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Oct. 13 – Oct. 16. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Oct. 13 9:55 p.m. — Complainant reported that uknown persons stole a framed picture of one of the founders of Beta Theta Pi fraternity from the library of the house. Oct. 14 5:52 p.m. — Officer on patrol observed than an access control arm in Parking Lot #32 had been broken. 5:54 p.m. — A student reported the theft of $50 from her purse, which had been left unattended in a backstage room at Edison Theatre. 7:21 p.m. — A student overloaded a washing machine in the Park House residence hall causing it to overheat, burning the belts and creating smoke. Oct. 15 9:20 a.m. — A student in Shepley Hall reported an ongoing conflict between two other students.

A memorial service will be held in honor of Daniel P. Schuster, M.D., Monday, Oct. 22, from 4-6:30 p.m. at the Eric P. Newman Auditorium.

The pedestrian bridge over Forest Park Parkway on the Danforth Campus will be closed Oct. 18-22 to allow Metro to install a protective deck coating on the bridge.

Photo by Robert BostonDale Thuet, a second-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy, prepares the InBody body scanner to analyze Nikki Morilak, a first-year student.