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Courtesy PhotoAfter delivering a well-attended Assembly Series presentation Sept. 17 in Graham Chapel, Elizabeth Kolbert answered questions from students, including Tyler Nading, a senior civil engineering major and member of the men’s basketball team.

Photo by Whitney CurtisRisa Zwerling Wrighton (right) greets Marilee Keys during the Woman’s Club Fall Welcome Lunch at Harbison House Sept. 15. Wrighton hosted the luncheon to introduce women new to WUSTL to the Woman’s Club.

The Saturday afternoon jazz series, a set of four free concerts in conjunction with the “Birth of Cool Exhibit” at Kemper Art Museum begins Sept. 27 with the BAG Trio.

Kerri Morgan, instructor in the Program in Occupational Therapy, took fifth place in two events at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing Sept. 11 and 15.

How the Chinese nation presents itself to the world — as in its recent hosting of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games — and how it is perceived by other nations — including rival global superpower, the United States — is the focus of an international conference Oct. 17-18 at Washington University.

Aliens and dinosaurs, inner space and outer space. On Oct. 3-4, L.A. Theatre Works, the nation’s foremost radio theater company, returns to Edison Theatre for special back-to-back productions of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World.”

The football team is 3-0 for the first time since 2001, thanks to a 30-27 victory at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. The Bears jumped out to a 21-0 second-quarter lead and forced four turnovers in the win against the school with the most victories in NCAA Division III history. Senior quarterback Buck Smith finished […]

An in-depth study of one-sided or unilateral hearing has now received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Three aspiring playwrights will present staged readings of their works Sept. 26-27 as part of the 2008 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival, sponsored by the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.

Sen. Joe Biden from Delaware and Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the vice presidential nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively, will debate each other at 8 p.m. Oct. 2 in the Athletic Complex, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates.