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McBrideLosing a job usually comes with the double whammy of losing any employer-sponsored health insurance. Timothy McBride, Ph.D., leading health economist and associate dean for public health at WUSTL’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work, is available to discuss current coverage options and the future of health insurance for low-income people. “Health reform, if it is considered in Congress, may provide relief for low-income persons,” he says. “In the short run, there are unfortunately few options for the unemployed unless they are relatively healthy and can buy cheap policies, or have significant savings. It is one of the sad aspects of our broken health-care system.”

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The McDonnell Center for Space Sciences will host a student poster session today and tomorrow on the first floor of the Earth & Planetary Sciences Building on the Danforth Campus. A valedictory reception will be held at 4 p.m. today.

WUSTL’s No. 21 national ranking in last year’s RecycleMania competition was impressive, but the Office of Sustainability is challenging WUSTL to finish even higher in the 2009 RecycleMania contest, which begins Sunday, Jan. 18.

Photo by Robert BostonIn France, J. Perren Cobb, M.D., would be called a ‘reanimateur’ — a critical care doctor who specializes in bringing patients back from the brink of death. Cobb, professor of surgery and of anesthesiology, cares for patients in the surgical intensive care unit.

Up to $22,000 is now available to WUSTL students for the development and implementation of innovative community projects during the summer in the form of social change grants through the Community Service Office. A new gift from Max and Judith Stern will provide funding for a second Stern Social Change Grant this year. The first […]

To honor the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr., the Society of Black Student Social Workers (SBSSW) at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host the third annual “Financial Freedom Seminar: Achieving Economic Independence Through Education,” from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, in Brown Hall, Room 100. The seminar, […]

Prominent criminal defense attorney and civil rights advocate Michael Pinard, J.D., will address the pressing problem of prisoner re-entry in America to kick off the spring lineup of Washington University School of Law’s 11th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series Jan. 22. Pinard is the law school’s 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]

Students, staff and faculty from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work participated in the U.S. Marine Toys for Tots program during the holidays.

A memorial service for Elizabeth K. Barry, a first-year student in Arts & Sciences who died Dec. 8, will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, January 25 in Graham Chapel. The service will be open to the University community.