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Class scheduling conflicts have become an increasing problem for many undergraduates who want to attend the Wednesday-morning lectures.

Photo by Mary ButkusOlin School Dean Mahendra Gupta greets students after the Undergraduate Business School Council Dean’s Forum.

“Finding markers that can help us identify (Alzheimer’s disease) patients prior to symptoms is really our big push now,” researcher Anne Fagan Niven says.

Photo by Joe AngelesStudents walk across the pedestrian overpass near the Cyclotron on the north side of the Hilltop Campus.

Faculty and staff with a valid University identification will receive a 30 percent discount on regular and sale-priced merchandise.

For Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ph.D., associate professor of Persian and of comparative literature, both in Arts & Sciences, poetry is much more than an academic discipline. It is a profoundly personal experience that requires both the poet and the reader to be fully involved in its consummation. “Poetry is the magic we perform with language,” she […]

Researchers reported on a study of 33 professional baseball pitchers in the October issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Beginning this fall, some Assembly Series lectures are available online. Class scheduling conflicts have become an increasing problem for many undergraduates who want to attend the Wednesday morning lectures. The Web streaming will enable them to access a lecture whenever they wish.

The Women’s Society of Washington University received a major boost for its scholarship fund with a $100,000 gift from the Danforth Foundation, in honor of Elizabeth (Ibby) Danforth. The scholarship provides full tuition for transfer students from the St. Louis community college system.

He apparently suffering a heart attack while walking his dogs near his home in Ladue, Mo.; he was 67.