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A drug already prescribed to shrink benign, enlarged prostates has been shown to reduce the risk of a prostate cancer diagnosis by 23 percent in men with an increased risk of the disease, a large international trial has found. Results are reported April 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

At recent Board of Trustees meetings, the following faculty members were appointed with tenure, promoted with tenure or granted tenure.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work is celebrating National Public Health Week April 5-8 with a series of events that is open to the university community.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton dons a Metro bus costume and participates with students in a March 31 walking dance improvisation outside the Danforth University Center to raise awareness for Proposition A and mass transit. Proposition A, on next Tuesday’s April 6 ballot in St. Louis County, is a one-half cent sales tax increase to support the operation and expansion of the Metro bus and rail system.

The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will host a daylong conference titled “State and Local Government Finance Amid Economic Turbulence” beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, April 9, in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium. The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

A memorial service will be held for Teresa J. Vietti, MD, professor emeritus of pediatrics and of radiology, at 4 p.m. April 28 at Graham Chapel.

Fox News political analyst Juan Williams will present “The Capacity of America to Address Its Most Pressing Domestic Issues” for the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy’s annual dinner at 8 p.m. Monday, April 4, in the main dining room of the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center.

Although best known as a pioneering feminist, Gloria Steinem always has been a civil rights advocate. Her work now extends to the burgeoning global problem of human trafficking. Steinem will be on campus at noon Monday, April 12, in Graham Chapel speaking on “Sex Trafficking and the New Abolitionists” for the Assembly Series.

Students, faculty, staff and members of the St. Louis community are invited to the third annual “Faces of Hope,” a celebration of civic engagement and community service. The event, hosted by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service, will be held from 4-6 p.m., Thursday, April 8, in the Whitaker Hall atrium and auditorium.

The School of Law’s Tyrrell Williams Lecture will be delivered by His Excellency Thomas Buergenthal, JD, the United States judge on the International Court of Justice in the Hague. The lecture, “The International Judicial System: Its Growing Influence,” will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 8, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.