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Photo by Robert BostonThe first of its kind in the St. Louis area, the SPOT is a one-stop, drop-in center for youth that will provide HIV and STD services at no cost.

Courtesy PhotoThis fall, five teams of architecture students have worked to create redevelopment plans for an abandoned children’s theater located on the campus of a south St. Louis historic church.

Dancer, choreographer and creative/performance artist Liz Lerman, together with Washington University faculty, will participate in a panel discussion on the intersection of art and community. The Assembly Series program “Still Crossing: Expressing Identities, Building Communities” begins at 4 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. Panelists are Sunita Parikh, Ph.D., associate professor of […]

Slated to be the largest in the biannual event’s four-year history, the fall 2008 Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Danforth University Center.

Photo by David MarchantAcclaimed choreographer Liz Lerman (center), founding artistic director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and a visiting artist in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, and senior Jackie Dodd (far right), work with residents at the Gladys & Henry Crown Center for Senior Living in University City.

Photo by David KilperKeith Sawyer, Ph.D., professor of education and psychology, both in Arts & Sciences, studies the finer points of creativity, conversation and innovation.

Photo by David KilperWUSTL biologists will play a key role in helping restore the longleaf pine communities of the southeastern United States.

Courtesy PhotoSchool of Medicine surgeons are removing patients’ gallbladders using a single small incision in the belly button that leaves only a tiny scar.

Distinguished environmental law and policy scholars and scientists from around the country will gather at WUSTL Oct. 30 to discuss “International Climate Change: Post-Kyoto Challenges.”

A memorial service will be held Nov. 2 for Richard D. Todd, Ph.D., M.D., the Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, who died Aug. 22.