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Photo by Robert BostonStoryCorps visited the Siteman Cancer Center April 17-21 to record parents and children recalling how the parent communicated a cancer diagnosis to their children.

Beginning May 8, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will showcase “Rirkrit Tiravanija: Chew the Fat,” a multifaceted video installation that together profiles a loose-knit group of 12 internationally known artists.

A handsome prince, a distant land, a damsel in distress. Yet in the world of “The Magic Flute,” little is as it seems. At 8 p.m. May 1 and 2, Washington University Opera will present an abridged version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved classic in Karl Umrath Hall.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts honored six outstanding architecture and art alumni at its second annual Awards for Distinction dinner April 23.

The search for the cause of an inherited form of a rare childhood cancer potentially sheds light on the development of other cancers.

Washington University and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have received two awards totaling $35 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to do research on novel energy initiatives. At $20 million, the Washington University research award is the largest ever received on the Danforth Campus. The $15 million for the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is the largest the organization has ever received.

SmithPennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s decision to switch his allegiance to the Democratic Party will likely raise further questions about the Republican Party’s ability to appeal to moderate voters, but Democrats should realize that Specter will remain fairly independent in his voting on key issues, including ongoing opposition to pro-union “card check” provisions, suggests Steven S. Smith, a congressional expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

A drug widely used to shrink enlarged prostates has been shown to lower the risk of prostate cancer by 23 percent in men who have an increased risk of the disease, according to results of an international clinical trial presented April 27 at the American Urological Association annual meeting in Chicago.

The largest award pool for social entrepreneurship in the U.S. was split five ways on April 23, 2009 when winners of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition were announced at Washington University in St. Louis. The five finalists were chosen from an original field of 42 entrants and represent diverse ventures with missions to provide educational and cultural and vocational training.

School of Medicine clinical faculty and staff recently collected more than 1,500 medical textbooks to be donated to the Lui Hospital in Sudan, located in the war zone of southern Sudan. The staff who work there rely on outdated medical references, some dating back to the 1930s.