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The No. 2-ranked men’s tennis team captured its first-ever University Athletic Association (UAA) championship with a 5-4 victory over top-ranked Emory University April 19, extending its school-record winning streak to 16 matches and ending Emory’s 19-year run as conference champion. Junior Danny Levy clinched the match with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Oliver Lopp […]

Paul Morigi/BrookingsThe Brookings Institution and Washington University will begin offering joint programs, including internships, lectures and other educational activities, the institutions announced April 21. The Olin Business School also will lead management of Brookings’ executive education activities, effective July 1. Strobe Talbott (left), president of the Brookings Institution, meets with Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton in Washington, D.C., the day the new partnership was announced.

As the Record went to press, we learned of the passing of Benjamin Edwards III, trustee emeritus and former CEO of A.G. Edwards Inc., April 20 from prostate cancer.

Three campus ensembles will join forces April 26 for the 2009 Chancellor’s Concert.

Two doctoral students were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education March 28 at Yale University. Magassa The 2009 Bouchet Fellows are N’Goundo Magassa, a doctoral student in the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, […]

What do a choreographer, a bank president, an investment banker and the president of America’s largest brewer have in common? They are all graduates of the Olin Business School and will be honored tonight at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton. In addition to the distinguished alumni awards, the Dean’s Medal will be presented as well as the 2009 Olin Award for faculty research with the greatest potential to advance business.

Patients with severe heart failure can be bridged to eventual transplant by a new, smaller and lighter implantable heart pump.

A new study of adults with inadequate asthma control without significant heartburn shows that heartburn medication does not help control their asthma symptoms.

Scientists have identified the first gene that possibly helps trigger the painful condition known as neuropathy.

Alex A. Kane, M.D., has been named the Dr. Joseph B. Kimbrough Chair at the School of Medicine.