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Froma Walsh, Ph.D., co-director and co-founder of the Chicago Center for Family Health, will deliver the Susanna Bensinger Clinical Lecture on “Strengthening Family Resilience: Overcoming Life Challenges” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the Brown Hall Lounge. The lecture is free and open to the public. Walsh, the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita […]

Photo by Bill MatthewsThird-year law students Laura Crane (right) and Dan Tierney will begin their legal careers with a unique foreign policy perspective thanks to an internship with the law school’s ambassador in residence, Thomas Schweich, J.D.

The following incidents were reported to University Police April 1-7. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. April 4 4:31 p.m. — A vehicle’s […]

St. Louis’ Arianna String Quartet, widely hailed as among the nation’s finest chamber ensembles, will be joined by renowned pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, for a concert of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erno Dohnanyi and Robert Schumann.

Author and St. Louis native Nick Reding will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 16, for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. The talk — part of The Writing Program Reading Series — is free and open to the public and takes place in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge. A […]

The Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging is hosting the 2009 Friedman Conference April 21 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The conference, titled “In the Words of the Artist: The Influence of Age on Creativity and Expression,” focuses on the ways artists experience the aging process and how it affects creativity and expression.

Washington University’s Eliot Trio will perform music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19, in the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall. Named for Washington University founder William Greenleaf Eliot, the trio consists of Seth Carlin, professor of music and director of the piano program in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences; violinist David Halen, concertmaster for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; and cellist Bjorn Ranheim, also with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

New findings may improve the safety of methadone, a drug widely used to treat cancer pain and opioid-drug addiction.

Scientists are using a TV crime-drama technique to highlight immune inflammation found often in arthritis, atherosclerosis, cancer and neurodegenerative disease.

Martha F. Jones has been named executive director of the Human Research Protection Office effective April 6.