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Computer science faculty are exposing their undergraduate students to learning in ways that prepare them for interaction in the real work place. It’s not about “staying between the lines,” but more about getting out of your seat, moving around and interacting with your classmates. It’s called active learning, a learning-laboratory-based tutorial teaching concept.

Students or employees who do not currently hold an annual parking permit but wish to store their vehicles on campus during spring break (Friday, March 6, through Sunday, March 15) may do so after obtaining a placard from Parking Services.

More than 200 WUSTL students will be using their spring breaks not for lounging on the beach but for serving communities around the globe. Eighteen groups of students will travel to places as close as suburban St. Louis and as far away as Hanoi, Vietnam, to help with service projects ranging from home building and urban renewal to college mentorship and medical assistance.

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.

Courtesy PhotoMen’s basketball team members celebrate with their head coach, Mark Edwards, after defeating rival University of Chicago, 72-49, Feb. 28 and helping Edwards win the 500th game of his coaching career.

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Junior Nick Prickel is hoisted onto his competitors’ shoulders after being crowned the new Mr. Wash U Feb. 26 in Edison Theatre.

Numerous prominent researchers will gather at WUSTL March 12-14 to discuss the nature of human sociality. The conference, titled “Man the Hunted: The Origin and Nature of Human Sociality, Altruism and Well-Being,” is the first of its kind to focus on the evolution of cooperation, altruism and sociality in primates and humans.

Residents with appropriate training can safely make the decision to administer stroke treatment in emergency cases, a new study shows.

Brain cells long lumped into the same category have hidden differences that may contribute to the formation of tumors, a new School of Medicine study shows.

Children whose asthma improved while taking steroid drugs for several years did not see those improvements continue after stopping the drugs.