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As part of WUSTL’s commitment to promoting sustainability, the Record will offer weekly “Green Your Office” tips to promote efficiency and waste reduction at offices on campus.Send your own green office tips to wugreenoffice@gmail.com.

The Kingsbury Ensemble, one of the Midwest’s premier early music ensembles, will present a concert of Classical and early Romantic works for natural horn, soprano and fortepiano at 8 p.m. March 5 in the Ballroom Theater of the 560 Music Center. Harpsichordist Maryse Carlin, instructor in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, directs […]

Poet Brenda Shaughnessy will read from her work at 8 p.m. March 5, in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge for the Writing Program Reading Series. Shaughnessy is the author of “Human Dark with Sugar” (2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and one of five finalists for the […]

A memorial service for Neville Grant, M.D., professor of clinical medicine, for nearly 40 years, will be held Saturday, March 7 at 1 p.m. in Graham Chapel.

SpectorFranklin “Buzz” Spector, professor and former chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has been named dean of the College and Graduate School of Art, both part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Spector also will hold the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professorship of Art. The appointment, effective July 1, was announced by Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts.

Franklin “Buzz” Spector, professor and former chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has been named dean of the College and Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Spector also will hold the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professorship of Art.

Diagnosing acute stroke is a high-pressure decision. The speed with which treatment is delivered makes all the difference. Early treatment can stop brain damage, but if treatment is given inappropriately, it can dangerously increase the risk of bleeding in the brain. Because of this risk, the final decision to administer stroke treatment is usually reserved for neurologists or, in some cases, other attending physicians. But now researchers have shown that residents with appropriate training can safely make the call, ensuring that effective treatment is delivered faster.

Peter Schäfer, Ph.D., the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University, will present the 2009 Adam Cherrick Lecture in Jewish Studies, “Why Did Baby Messiah Disappear? The Birth of Christianity From the Spirit of Judaism,” at 7 p.m. March 19 in Wilson Hall, room 214.

Washington University in St. Louis will test its Emergency Notification System at noon Monday, March 2. The test will be held in conjunction with St. Louis County’s monthly siren test, which occurs at 11 a.m. on the first Monday of each month.

W.J.T. Mitchell, the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Art History and English at the University of Chicago, will speak on “The Future of the Image” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, in the Etta Eiseman Steinberg Auditorium as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ spring lecture series. An award-winning teacher, scholar and theorist of media, art and literature, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology—the study of images across the media.