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What are your priorities for women’s health research? The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wants to know. Washington University will host a national meeting March 4-6 on behalf of the NIH Office of Research in Women’s Health as it begins to develop research priorities for the next decade.

The School of Engineering & Applied Science will host a week of special events beginning Monday, Feb. 16, to inspire current and future engineers at WUSTL. On-campus events will include several student outreach projects and the presentation of the Alumni Achievement Awards. The National Engineers Week Foundation — a formal coalition of more than 100 […]

The Bear Necessities store in Wohl Student Center on the South 40 will be holding a week-long Washington Week sale, starting Feb. 16.

Courtesy PhotoBorn in Seoul, Korea, and educated at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, the Ahn Trio — sisters Maria, Lucia, and Angella — will return to Edison Theatre Saturday, Feb. 28, to present a piano-trio repertoire with commissioned works by some of today’s most visionary composers.

Wild baboons in Africa forage for food.To watch the 5 o’clock news every night, you’d think man was born to be destructive, violent and antagonistic. But that’s just not the case, argue numerous prominent researchers who will gather at Washington University in St. Louis 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,” will be the first of its kind to include academics from around the world and across multiple disciplines — anthropology, psychiatry, human evolution, biology, religion, education and medicine — to focus on the evolution of cooperation, altruism and sociality and possible factors that led to the evolution of these characteristics in primates and humans.

The annual George Washington Week, beginning today, will feature horse and buggy rides, birthday cake, appearances by a George Washington look-alike, cherry pie and tricorn hats. It is sponsored by the sophomore honorary Lock & Chain.

A new Weight Watchers at Work program is beginning March 2 on the Danforth Campus. Payment of $156 is due Feb. 23. The program will run for 12 weeks, through May 25.

The Office of Human Resources announces the January winners of the Your Health Snapshot contest.

Best-selling suspense author Ridley Pearson will read the children’s book, “The Story of Ferdinand” at 4 p.m. Sept. 20 in the University’s Campus Store on the Danforth Campus as part of the national “Read for the Record” program.

If you see a distinguished-looking gentleman with a white wig and long topcoat riding a horse-drawn buggy around campus next week, don’t be alarmed. It’s just George Washington. The annual George Washington Week, Feb. 16-20, will feature horse and buggy rides, birthday cake, appearances by “George” himself, cherry pie and tricorn hats.