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The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts honored seven outstanding architecture and art alumni at its third annual Awards for Distinction dinner March 18. The awards recognize graduates who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision through their contributions to the practices of art, architecture and design as well as to WUSTL and the Sam Fox School. 

Clinicians may be able to better predict the effects of strokes and other brain injuries by adapting a scanning approach originally developed for the study of brain organization, neurologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found.

James Lennox, PhD, a prominent scholar of the history and philosophy of biology, will deliver the annual John and Penelope Biggs Lecture in the Classics for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium. This event, which is free and open to the public, originally was scheduled for April 8.

Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir will give a free concert covering American history through music at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, April 10, at the 560 Music Center.

Outgoing, gregarious people who fill their lives with deep, meaningful conversations may have found at least one key to a happier life, suggests research from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Arizona.

Sports updates for week of March 29

School of Medicine students will perform “Once Upon a Mattress” April 15-17 at the Whelpley Auditorium at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

Hip hop artist and actor Common will give the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Association of Black Students, at 7 p.m. Monday, March 29, in Graham Chapel. This event was originally scheduled to take place April 6.

Fairness and cooperation among strangers depends on more than evolution, according to a new study published in the current issue of Science magazine. “Historical factors such as religion, commerce and punishment play a role,” says Carolyn Lesorogol, Ph.D., study co-author and associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. 

Of note Erika C. Crouch, MD, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $706,337 subaward from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Collectins and Innate Defense Against Inhaled Pathogens.” This subaward is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. … Debra Pulley, MD, associate professor of […]