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Should weather conditions create potentially hazardous travel conditions, Washington University will evaluate the situation and take into consideration the safety of the University’s faculty, staff and students as well as the services that must be provided despite the inclement weather. In the unlikely event that WUSTL alters the normal work and/or class schedule, an announcement will be posted on theWUSTL home page, and a number of media outlets also will air an announcement.

Richard M. Hazelton, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. He was 91.

Washington University Dance Theatre (WUDT), the annual showcase of professionally choreographed works performed by student dancers, will present Transmotion, its 2009 concert, Dec. 4 to 6 in Edison Theatre. Performances — sponsored by the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences — will feature more than three dozen student dancers, selected by audition, in seven original works by faculty and guest choreographers. Pieces range from ballet and contemporary dance to works drawing on Chinese and Native American traditions.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has extended funding for the Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (MRCE), anchored at the School of Medicine. The center received a five-year, $37 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue to support basic and translational research […]

Studies have suggested that asthma patients with a specific genetic variation might not respond as well to certain treatments as those with a different variation. But a new study in this week’s edition of The Lancet shows that patients with either variation respond to combination treatment, and that this treatment should be continued, School of Medicine researchers report.

Iowa StateIn recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at the School of Medicine published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will speed efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet the world’s growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel.

WUSTL faculty, staff and students hosting Thanksgiving dinners in their homes can avoid preparations and mess by ordering a Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings from WUSTL Dining Services. Meals for six ($78) and 12 ($156) include a turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry relish, turkey gravy, cornbread muffins and pumpkin pie. Turkeys can be ordered […]

Student veterans, faculty and staff from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, the School of Law and Olin Business School are working together to help less fortunate children through the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program.

The Washington University Infectious Diseases Clinic will offer free, confidential HIV testing. In conjunction with National HIV Testing Day, testing is available from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 30-Dec. 3.

Faculty and staff can register to win one of 20 season PassPorts to The Black Rep. A season PassPort contains five ticket vouchers, which are redeemable at any time during the 2010 season. Winners will be chosen in a drawing in December 2009.