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“The State of the LGBT Movement,” a presentation by Matthew Coles, will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, September 30, in the Anheuser-Busch School of Law Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom. It is free and open to the public.

John CageSince the early 20th century avant-garde writers, artists and composers have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental. Next week the Department of Music and the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department, both in Arts & Sciences, along with the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a concert exploring the use of chance in modern and contemporary music. The performance — held in conjunction with the exhibition Chance Aesthetics, now on view at the Kemper Art Museum — is free and open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall.

RobinsLee Nelken Robins, professor emeritus of social science in psychiatry at the School of Medicine, died peacefully at her home Sept. 25, 2009, following a long battle against cancer. Robins was a world leader in psychiatric epidemiology research and had worked in the Department of Psychiatry for more than 50 years.

Cancer survivor Kathy Ferrara and daughter Natalie continue their dialogue after participating in StoryCorps, a national oral history and research project.Cancer is a difficult diagnosis to acknowledge — especially what a parent with can-cer must explain. A StoryCorps project captures the emotional stories of survivors and may help others to say what must be said.

A group of pregnant women who have asthma or allergies will get extra vitamin D as part of a study to determine if the vitamin can prevent their children from developing asthma.

Richard Chole, a surgeon and chairman of otolaryngology, is also an inventor whose garage creations include a wristband warning system to prevent wrong-site surgeries and a surgical device that allows less invasive surgery on pituitary tumors.

The new faculty who were introduced at the Arts & Sciences annual faculty reception are: Roshan Abraham, Ph.D., assistant professor, classics and religious studies; William Acree, Ph.D., assistant professor, Romance languages and literatures; Pannill Camp, Ph.D., assistant professor, performing arts; Shefali Chandra, Ph.D., assistant professor, history and international and area studies; Frederick Eberhardt, assistant professor, […]

Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease makes Alzheimer’s brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at the School of Medicine report online this week in Science Express.

 Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo ServicesShaun Hudson as Coalhouse Walker, Jr., and Renae Adams as Mother  Ragtime, Terrence McNally’s acclaimed adaptation of the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, is a sweeping and ambitious tale of race, class and the promise of America at the dawn of the 20th century. It is also a tremendously demanding theatrical production, requiring almost 50 actors and at least a dozen musicians. Indeed, Ragtime is so logistically challenging — more than 150 different costumes must be designed and sewn — that it virtually precludes staging by all but the largest of regional theaters. Yet next month, The Black Rep will join forces with the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences to present this Tony Award-winning musical as the fall Mainstage production.

Harold Ford Jr., once described by President Bill Clinton as “the walking, living embodiment of where America ought to go in the 21st century,” will give this year’s Elliot Stein Lecture in Ethics for the Assembly Series. His talk will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 7 in Graham Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.