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Chimes Junior Honorary and the Assembly Series are co-sponsoring an informal discussion with Francis G. Slay, the mayor of the City of St. Louis, at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Danforth University Center Tisch Commons. The event is free and open to the public.

Senior John Watts captured his second men’s tennis individual national title with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Andy Peters of Middlebury College in the finals of 2009 Division III ITA National Small College Championship Oct. 17 in Mobile, Ala. Watts, who won the 2007 ITA championship and placed third in 2006 and 2008, is 11-1 […]

Jacques U. Baenziger, M.D., Ramanath Cowsik, Ph.D., Feng Gao, Ph.D., Mae Gordon, Ph.D., and more…

Celebrated husband-and-wife illustrators Sam Weber and Jillian Tamaki will deliver a joint lecture for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts fall Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27. In addition, Marcelo Spina — founder of PATTERNS, a design research architectural practice in Los Angeles — will discuss his work for […]

Richard Sigg has been promoted to director of admissions and recruitment for the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, announced Ellen Rostand, assistant dean for communications. “Richard is dedicated to the mission of higher education and has a strong commitment to student service,” Rostand said. “He has led an incredible effort to bring in […]

Carlo Ginzburg, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present “Copies, Facsimiles, and the Invisible Text” for the 2009 Rolando Lara Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. Nov. 2 in Whitaker Hall Auditorium. The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences, is free […]

Sedelle Katz, research assistant in psychiatry from 1971-78 and a visiting lecturer in social work in 1980, died Oct. 12, 2009. She was 86.

Photo by Whitney CurtisAnna Zatonskih (left), the recently crowned 2009 U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, combines chess and roulette with Rex Sinquefield (right), president and chairman of the board of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Oct. 14 in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Four faculty from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design won a total of six 2009 Design Awards from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

WUSTL physics professors will explore topics in astronomy this fall during the Saturday Science seminar series, sponsored by the Department of Physics and University College, both in Arts & Sciences.