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The Gephardt Institute for Public Service has announced the recipients of its Community-Based Teaching and Learning Faculty Grants Program. The grants are intended to provide faculty members with financial support for curriculum development and implementation.

A type of antibiotic that can cause hearing loss in people has been found to paradoxically protect the ears when given in extended low doses in very young mice. The surprise finding came from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who looked to see if loud noise and the antibiotic kanamycin together would produce a bigger hearing loss than either factor by itself.

The largest U.S. epidemiological study of Parkinson’s disease has found that the disease is more prevalent in the Midwest and the Northeast and is twice as likely to strike whites and Hispanics as blacks and Asians. Researchers analyzed data on more than 36 million Medicare recipients.

More than 40 books have been written about the investing strategies of business tycoon Warren Buffett. However, most people fail to recognize that Buffett’s skills as a business executive and manager are just as impressive as his investing prowess, said Richard J. Connors, J.D. Connors’ book, “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha,” brings Buffett’s managerial principles and practices to the attention of the business world.

Sustainability is a complicated and pressing topic that spans many fields and has many implications — personal, social, national and global. The 2010 MLA Saturday Lecture Series, sponsored by the master of liberal arts program of University College in Arts & Sciences, will explore topics relating to sustainability, a key element in Washington University’s education and research agenda.

Christopher Wilson (left), a freshman in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, demonstrates a musical instrument he built from found and recycled materials for members of ScrapArtsMusic, the acclaimed Vancouver percussion ensemble, in Edison Theatre Jan. 22. Wilson was one of four finalists in the Sounds of Sustainability competition, held in conjunction with a Jan. 23 concert by ScrapArtsMusic.

Entrepreneurs with business plans to make the world a better place will have 90 seconds to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges at 6 p.m. tonight in the next-to-final round of the annual YouthBridge SEIC (Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Competition) in May Auditorium, Simon Hall, on the Danforth Campus.

Do you know a Washington University staff member who goes above and beyond to help students, faculty or others in the WUSTL community? Help the University recognize that staff member’s efforts by nominating him or her for the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award.

While the story of Michelangelo’s artistic genius has been told many times, the story of his social ambitions has been told scarcely at all. Indeed, scholars have largely dismissed the artist’s claims to noble birth. Yet it was precisely that belief that propelled Michelangelo’s lifelong quest not only to improve his family’s financial position, but to improve the very social standing of artists. So argues art historian William Wallace in the new biography “Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and his Times.” 

Dancer and choreographer Nejla Yatkin (forefront), in residence as the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences’ 2010 Marcus Artist, leads a master class in modern dance for intermediate and advanced students last Monday, Jan. 25.