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The Brookings Institution and Washington University’s Academic Venture Capital Fund (AVCF) is seeking proposals from fellows, faculty, staff, centers, institutes and programs at both institutions. The purpose of the AVCF is to support collaboration between the people and programs at both Washington University and the Brookings Institution, particularly long-term projects that impact research, education and […]

The sixth annual School of Medicine Art Show will be held Jan. 14-Feb. 11, 2010 in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Atrium.

Nominations are due Dec. 15 for the second annual James M. Holobaugh Honors.

A receptor that removes cholesterol from the blood also may reduce the formation of brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease, suggest researchers at the School of Medicine.

Robert L. Grubb Jr., M.D., professor emeritus of neurosurgery, continues to be an active member of the University community, seeing outpatients in clinics three days a week, serving as the principal neurosurgical investigator on a major multicenter clinical trial and working on a history of the Department of Neurosurgery in honor of its upcoming centennial in 2011.

Jacqueline “Jackie” Ulin Levey has been hired as the executive director of St. Louis Hillel at Washington University.

At its winter meeting Dec. 4, the Board of Trustees elected Andrea J. Grant, J.D., a prominent Washington D.C. attorney, to the Board, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Gary C. Dollar, president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Greater St. Louis, delivers remarks at the December Degree Candidate Recognition Ceremony in Graham Chapel Dec. 5. Looking on is Grand Marshal Robert E. Wiltenburg, Ph.D. (center), dean of University College in Arts & Sciences, and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, who gave the Chancellor’s Message to the degree candidates.

Three academic appointments have been announced by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Photo by David KilperDespite the un-winter-like temperatures in early December, Mudd Field turned into a winter playground Dec. 1. Students skated on a temporary “ice” surface, a 30-by-40-foot plastic sheet designed to accommodate real skates.