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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.

Sophomore John Watts captured Washington University’s first individual men’s tennis national championship with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 win over Andy Murray of Gustavus Adolphus College in the finals of the 2007 Division III Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Small College Championships Oct. 13 in Mobile, Ala. “I got down 5-1 in the first set, and […]

The Tamm Avenue bridge is scheduled to open Oct. 20.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is bringing together a distinguished group of scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers from across the country to help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system.

Thursday, Oct. 18 • Dept. of Music Lecture Series — “Demonstration of Shinnai Narrative Song” Friday, Oct. 19 • East Asian Studies Conference — Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Saturday, Oct. 20 • Physics Science Saturdays Lecture Series — “The Laws of Classical Physics Govern What Cardiologists See and Hear” Wednesday, Oct. 24 • Global & Transnational Feminisms Lecture Series — “The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe: Women, Nation and the Tyranny of History”

J. Dillon Brown, Ph.D., Bill Bubelis, Ph.D., Sudarshan Jayaraman, J. Lamar Pierce, Ph.D., And more…