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Gerald W. Dorn II, M.D., has been named the Philip and Sima K. Needleman Professor of Medicine.

Preschoolers don’t outgrow depression, School of Medicine psychiatry researchers have found.

Photo by Robert BostonMedical Center employees and visitors enjoyed balanced assortment of healthy fresh fruits and vegetables at the summer’s farmer’s markets.

Julie Otsuka, author of “When the Emperor Was Divine,” this year’s Freshman Reading Program selection, will present the Assembly Series/Neureuther Library Lecture at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Graham Chapel. Otsuka Otsuka’s debut novel explores themes of identity, loss and injustice. It is the story of a Japanese immigrant couple and their American-born children […]

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum presents “Chance Aesthetics,” a major loan exhibition investigating the use of chance as a key compositional principle in modern art. The exhibit opens with a reception at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 and remains on view through Jan. 4, 2010.

Fiction writer Lydia Millet will read from her work at 8 p.m. Sept. 17 in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge to open the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences’ fall Reading Series. Millet is the author of six novels, beginning with the subversive coming-of-age tale “Omnivores,” which centers on a young woman whose megalomaniac […]

Gary S. Wihl, Ph.D., who joined WUSTL July 1 as dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences, will be installed as the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities during a 4:30 p.m. ceremony Sept. 16.

On Sept. 12, the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will explore the role of ethnicity in contemporary dance with “Dancing Who I Am,” a panel discussion and informal concert featuring faculty performers and leading critics and choreographers from around the country.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have shown that individual cells isolated from the biological clock can keep daily time all by themselves. However, by themselves, they are unreliable. The neurons get out of synch and capriciously quit or start oscillating again.

Fiction writer Lydia Millet will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, for Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences Millet is the author of six novels, beginning with the subversive coming-of-age tale Omnivores (1996), which centers on a young woman whose megalomaniac father turns their home into an armed camp after seceding from the United States. Her third novel, My Happy Life (2002), won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Her latest book is the forthcoming story collection Love in Infant Monkeys.