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To honor the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr., the Society of Black Student Social Workers at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host “Financial Freedom Seminar: Achieving Economic Independence Through Education,” Jan. 17.

Photo by Jennifer SilverbergWilliam “Bill” Clay, Sr. Missouri’s first black congressman, discusses his new book, “The Jefferson Bank Confrontation: The Struggle for Civil Rights in St. Louis,” with area high school students in Edison Theatre Jan. 9 as part of the Big Read program.

The men’s basketball team held the University of Chicago without a field goal for a stretch of 12:31 in the second half en route to a 74-62 victory over the Maroons in both team’s University Athletic Association (UAA) opener Jan. 10 in Chicago. The Bears shot 57.4 percent from the field in the victory and […]

Photo by Ron Steele”Masked Marvels & Wondertales,” the eye-popping one-man variety show by Michael Cooper, launches Edison’s ovations for young people series and takes place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at the 560 Music Center.

In its 13th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” brown bag lunch series on campus features one-hour presentations on research interests of faculty from local and national universities.

The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. Long Chen, Ph.D., Frederick Eberhardt, Ph.D., Katherine Henzler-Wildman, Ph.D., and Scott Wildman, Ph.D.

Washington University, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Saint Louis University and the University of Missouri-St. Louis will partner to host the Midwest Regional Outreach, Science and Scholarship Summit: Leadership in Interdisciplinarity, Networking and Collaboration Feb. 2-4.

Prominent criminal defense attorney and civil rights advocate Michael Pinard, J.D., will address the pressing problem of prisoner reentry in America to kick off the spring lineup of Washington University School of Law’s 11th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series on Jan. 22.

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

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