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School of Medicine researchers have found the innate immune system has cells that can learn from experience and fight better when called into battle a second time.

It’s time to nominate School of Medicine staff for this year’s Dean’s Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor awarded to a medical staff member.

Photo by Robert BostonEighteen School of Medicine faculty were honored Jan. 29 at the 2009 Distinguished Faculty Award ceremony at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

WUSTL will host a public hearing and conference March 4-6 to gather input and set priorities for federally funded women’s health research. 

Abdullah M. Nassief, M.D., one of the region’s premier experts on stroke, died Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009. He was 43.

Courtesy Photo”Wonderboy,” the new collaboration by San Francisco choreographer Joe Goode and master puppeteer Basil Twist, comes to St. Louis Feb. 20 and 21 as part of Edison Theatre’s OVATIONS Series.

The 2009 spring concert series presented by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences continues with an array of events that will entertain, inspire and inform music-loving audiences in the St Louis and surrounding areas.

Photo by Mary Butkus An online tutoring service and a device designed to make custom-fit earbuds are the winners of the 2008 Olin Cup competition for entrepreneurs presented by the Olin Business School and the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

Courtesy PhotoThe Ahn Trio — sisters Maria, Lucia, and Angella — return to Edison Theatre at 8 p.m. Feb. 28 as part of the OVATIONS series.

The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanites Lecture Sries, “FanZ and Enthusiasts: The Passions of Modern Reading,” will open with a program by noted cultural historian Janice Radway at noon on Tuesday, February 17 in the Women’s Building Lounge.