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Senior Tyler Nading scored a game-high 20 points as the Washington University in St. Louis men’s basketball team repeated as NCAA Division III National Champions with a 61-52 victory over No. 6 Richard Stockton College on Saturday at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va. The WUSTL women’s basketball team staged a frenzied second-half comeback attempt that fell just short as the Bears lost, 60-53, to No. 3 George Fox University in a national championship game played Saturday at the DeVos Fieldhouse in Holland, Mich.

For filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, “keeping it real” is more than just a phrase — it’s the philosophy that drives him to write, direct and star in his documentaries. Spurlock will be the featured speaker for an Assembly Series program at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 1 in Graham Chapel. The event, sponsored by Congress of the South 40, is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.

A memorial service for WUSTL senior Anthony Olasov will be held at 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, in Graham Chapel.

A memorial service for Herbert F. Hitzeman Jr., senior vice chancellor emeritus, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 29, in Graham Chapel and will be led by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. A reception will follow in Holmes Lounge.

Fashion is fun, challenging, inspiring and everywhere. It is also hard work. Next week 11 seniors and seven juniors from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, home to the nation’s oldest four-year fashion design program, will present the fruit of their labors in the school’s 80th Annual Fashion Design Show at Lumière Place Casino & Hotels.

Tracy Davis, the Barber Professor of Performing Arts at Northwestern University and president of the American Society for Theatre Research, will present Washington University’s 2009 Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 1. Titled “The Witness Protection Program: Making Theatre, Everyday,” the talk is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.

All animals, including humans, have an internal 24-hour clock or circadian rhythm that creates a daily oscillation of body temperature, brain activity, hormone production and metabolism. Studying mice, researchers at the School of Medicine and Northwestern University found how the biological circadian clock mechanism communicates with processes that govern aging and metabolism.

Nationally recognized StoryCorps will visit the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine April 17-21 as part of a collaborative project to better understand how parents with cancer discuss the diagnosis with their children. This visit is the first time that StoryCorps, the largest oral history project of its kind, has partnered to collect the stories of cancer survivors on a single topic.

Janine Benyus, one of the pre-eminent practitioners of biomimicry, will speak for the Assembly Series at 5:30 p.m. March 19 in Graham Chapel.

I. Jerome Flance, M.D., emeritus professor of clinical medicine, has received the Ralph O. Claypoole Sr. Memorial Award from the American College of Physicians. The award recognizes an outstanding practitioner of internal medicine who has devoted his or her career to the care of patients. The recipient is a clinician highly respected by colleagues for […]