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Photo by Robert BostonLarry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, gives the annual Dean’s Update to the School of Medicine.

Junior running back Jim O’Brien ran for a career-high 163 yards and three touchdowns as the football team rallied for a 44-37 victory over the University of Chicago Nov. 7. With the victory, the Bears regained possession of the Founders Cup, which commemorates the first football game played between the two University Athletic Association (UAA) […]

In a career spanning more than 50 years, the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) emerged as one of the most celebrated women of her day, known for a signature acting style based on grand, theatrical gestures and a famously melodious voice. On Nov. 22 the Washington University Symphony Orchestra will highlight a series of rarely heard works originally composed for “The Divine Sarah,” who commissioned and revived dozens of musical scores to accompany her plays.

School of Medicine researhers have shown that highly targeted radiation therapy improves survival and lessens treatment-related complications in cervical cancer patients. The technique, called intensity-modulated radiation therapy, is widely accepted for treating many cancers of the pelvic region, head and neck, and central nervous system, but its for cervical cancer is not as common.

An art show starting Nov. 20, 2009 at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center atrium features two painters who are mother and daughter. The artists, Leona Kremen and her daughter Paula Smith, trained at the Maryland Institute of Art and studied with prominent Baltimore modernist Herman Maril.

Trombones of the Saint Louis SymphonyThe Trombones of the Saint Louis Symphony are one of the nation’s leading brass chamber ensembles, dedicated to elevating the status of the trombone quartet and to expanding the trombone quartet repertoire. At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, the group will present a free concert at Washington University, with a program spanning four centuries.

Washington University in St. Louis will host a national conference on “America’s Urban Infrastructure: Confronting Her Challenges, Embracing Her Opportunities” Nov. 19 and 20 in the Danforth University Center. The event, hosted by a consortium of nine WUSTL schools, departments, centers and programs, is free and open to the public.

Washington University has been awarded nearly $80 million in funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Re-investment Act to support research across a broad range of projects, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, renewable energy, diabetes and climate change.

Washington University has been awarded nearly $80 million in funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Re-investment Act (ARRA) to support research across a broad range of projects, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, renewable energy, diabetes and climate change.

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo Services*The Pillowman*There are good parents and there are bad parents and then there are the outrageously horrible parents of Katurian K. Katurian, the writer at the center of Martin McDonagh’s macabre, pitch-black comedy The Pillowman. This month Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present The Pillowman — winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play — in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.