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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.

Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Ph.D., Jenny Lovell, Frederic Moynier, Ph.D., Mohamed-Salah Omri, Ph.D., Carolyn Sargent, Ph.D., Alex Seidel, Ph.D., and Yongseok Shin, Ph.D.

Population growth is driving much of the world’s resource problems, and our political leaders ignore it, says Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth & planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences.

Photo by David KilperPatrick Gibbons, Ph.D. (center), professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, shows teachers how to make paper models showing differences in the sun’s rotation through the Department of Education’s Science Outreach program.

The School of Medicine again will offer free flu shots to faculty, staff and students at various locations this fall.

Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, will deliver the inaugural Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 in Room 100, Brown Hall.