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Three Washington University School of Medicine professors have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Susan Dutcher, Timothy Ley and Robert Schreiber.

The economy and recovery from the “Great Recession” will be in the spotlight this week with two prominent speakers on campus.  Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank and current St. Louis Fed president Jim Bullard will share their views at two separate events. 

A two-day event, hosted by DBBS and the Office of Post Graduate Affairs, brought 19 prospective postdoctoral research scholars to Washington University for a recruiting visit.

Sports updates for week of May 3, 2010.

Darwin is a magical dinosaur, built from scratch in the workshop of kindly Professor Henslow. But Darwin is also a wild creature who must tame his primitive instincts by learning love and compassion. Welcome to Darwin, an inventive and heart-warming multi-media performance by CORBIAN Visual Arts and Dance, which will bring the show to Edison Theatre May 8 as part of the ovations for young people series. 

Each year, more than a million Americans visit the doctor for ankle pain from arthritis. Some of these patients now have another option for their aging joints — ankle replacement.  

Of note Lesley Addison, Bill Janes and Janelle Sullivan, third-year doctoral students in the Program in Occupational Therapy, were selected to participate in the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Leaders Development Program, a new initiative to identify leaders who are about to start or have just started their careers and provide them with a yearlong mentored […]

WUSTL students from the Department of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences recently distinguished themselves in two competitions: A trophy from the 15th annual Missouri MAA Collegiate Mathematics Competition and more than respectable scores at the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, a difficult and prestigious national contest.

This year’s Spector Prize — awarded by the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences in memory Marion Smith Spector, a 1938 WUSTL graduate who studied zoology under the late Viktor Hamburger, PhD, — is being shared by two graduating seniors, Rebecca Krock and Olga Minkina.

When many people think of St. Louis, the Gateway Arch, Cardinals baseball or Anheuser-Busch beer comes to mind. With the help of her book, Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis, Catherine Rankovic is looking to add another feature to that list: literary hub.