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Two of Missouri’s top leaders in public health will speak at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work on April 10 and 13. Ronald J. Levy, director of the Mo. Department of Social Services, will close National Public Health Week with a lecture on “Building a Healthy Missouri” at noon on April 10 in Brown Hall Lounge. On April 13, Margaret Donnelly, director of the Mo. Department of Health and Senior Services, will speak about “Careers in Government” from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge.

“‘Meetings on the Move’ is an inexpensive, easy way to improve health and productivity,” says Tim McBride, Ph.D., associate dean for public health at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Meetings on the Move (MOTM) get employees on their feet and out of the office environment. “Forty percent of the population are absolute couch potatoes,” says Debra Haire-Joshu, Ph.D, and professor of social work at Washington University. “That’s almost a learned behavior. You learn to sit at school; you learn to sit at work. What ‘Meetings on the Move’ really does is get us active like we used to be when we were kids. We can learn then to bring activity back into our daily life, just like we learned to take it out.” Haire-Joshu also is the director of the Obesity Prevention and Policy Research Center at the Brown School. Video available.

The Kay Yow/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Cancer Fund and The V Foundation announced that Michael Welch, Ph.D. and John-Stephen Tyler, Ph.D. received the first research grant awarded with money raised by the Kay Yow/WBCA Fund. Awarded during the NCAA Women’s Final Four weekend in St. Louis, Mo., the grant will fund a breast cancer research project at the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Nonfiction writer and St. Louis native Nick Reding will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 16, for Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. Reding is the author of The Last Cowboys at the End of the World: The Story of the Gauchos of Patagonia (2001), which explores a semi-nomadic culture that was once thought to have all put disappeared at the end of the 19th century.

Photo by Mary ButkusMarion G. Crain, J.D., was installed as the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law March 30 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Armies burning with religious fervor, towns overrun by mercenary violence, a family disintegrating amidst the crossfire. Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children is widely considered the greatest anti-war play of the 20th century. Later this month Washington University’s Performing Arts Department will present this epic tale of a protective yet all-too pragmatic matriarch as its spring Mainstage production.

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Courtesy PhotoConstruction will be complete in December on the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University.

Richard Martin, Ph.D., the 2009 John and Penelope Biggs Resident in the Classics, will deliver the Assembly Series’ annual Biggs Lecture at 4 p.m. April 9 in Steinberg Auditorium. His talk will center on his approach to Homeric poetry and how it is so much more than an abstract study of language. Folklore, social anthropology, […]

Theresa Wilson, founder and executive director of the Blessing Basket Project, will give the Women’s Society of Washington University Adele Starbird address at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 15 in Graham Chapel. Her talk, “Making a Purchase that Makes a Difference: The Blessing Basket Project,” will be the final program in the Assembly Series’ spring schedule. It is free and open to the public.