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Photo by Kevin LowderSenior Sharad Wadhwani is reunited with his former French teacher Tracy Waters of Shorewood High School in Shorewood, Wis. Waters was in town to receive a 2007 Cornerstone Faculty Mentor Award — for which Wadhwani nominated her — March 21 in Holmes Lounge.

Represented by the University’s Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, the Sierra Club reached a precedent-setting energy agreement with Kansas City Power & Light March 19.

Well before a tornado hits, individuals should know what to do in an emergency, and departments, schools and residence halls should establish a calling tree.

A group headed by a School of Medicine researcher has found that two anti-epileptic drugs can prevent permanent hearing loss in mice exposed to loud noises.

Photo by Joe Angeles(Front row from left) McDonnell International Scholars Academy scholars Woosung Kim, Ryotaro Kato, Hong Min Park, Ziyan Zhang, Qing Nian and others walk past the U.S. Capitol Building during a recent tour of Washington. The group of 18 recent graduates from Asia’s top research universities now pursuing advanced academic work at WUSTL visited the nation’s capital March 22-25.

Belly fat may be an important promoter of the inflammation that plays a role in diabetes, heart disease and other disorders, School of Medicine researchers find.

The baseball team went 4-0 last week at home. WUSTL (17-4) swept Clarke College in a doubleheader March 23, taking Game 1, 8-6, before wrapping up the day with a 9-4 win. Senior Andy Shields moved up to fifth place on the Bears’ career- wins list with his fifth complete game of the year in […]

Nearly all of the 51 residents of Millbrook Building Two have returned to their apartments after a grease fire broke out in a kitchen about 1:40 p.m. March 24 forcing their evacuation. The only apartment still unoccupied is the one in which the fire occurred.

A grease fire broke out in an apartment kitchen in Millbrook Building Two on Saturday, March 24, forcing the evacuation of the building. The Clayton Fire Department coordinated the fire response, which included emergency crews and vehicles from six surrounding municipalities. Millbrook Two, which is part of the Millbrook Square Apartments located in the northwest corner of the Danforth Campus, houses 51 students. No students were injured, but some are still not able to return to their apartments and are being housed temporarily at the Knight Center on campus.

Jacqueline Tatom, assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, died at her home in the Central West End Sunday, March 18, following a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 51.