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Featured will be a keynote address by Nicholas Sammond and screenings of the films Duma and Saving Shiloh, the latter of which was shot in St. Louis.

Photo by Joe AngelesAn environmentally friendly picnic table in the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Butterfly Garden was recently dedicated to honor the University’s former first lady.

Alumni award recipients were William Gillula, Lynn Gorguze, Lewis Levey and Lin-Kuei Jackson Ling; Stuart Greenbaum & wife Elaine won the Dean’s Medal.

Funding will be made available over two years for single or multiyear projects through a grant program to be administered & coordinated by the CRIE.

Photo by Kevin LowderEach spring, the dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences recognizes outstanding teaching assistants with a $1,550 cash prize.

Tennis teams head to Division III tournament The men’s and women’s tennis teams are headed to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the seventh consecutive season. The No. 8 men and No. 19 women will travel to Greencastle, Ind., for the NCAA Central Regional May 5-7. The men (18-2) will take on No. 13 Kalamazoo […]

If some patients with heart disease don’t take their doctor’s advice to quit smoking, they are probably going to get “shocking” reminders. A study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that heart patients who had implanted defibrillators and also smoked were seven times more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm than nonsmokers with the devices.

Washington University in St. Louis will award honorary degrees to five prominent people, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a pioneering scholar of African and African-American literature, during the university’s 145th Commencement ceremony May 19. During the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle, the university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,300 students.

Some lung cancer patients — those with conditions that raise the potential for surgical complications — can be at a high risk from a lobectomy. More medical news

“When colleagues have professed great satisfaction about being a part of this community, it validates what we are doing,” Chancellor Wrighton said.