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Go to BearSports The men’s and women’s track and field team had four student-athletes provisionally qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships at the Washington University Invitational March 28-29. The women’s team won the meet and the men’s team placed fifth overall. For the women, seniors Morgen Leonard-Fleckman and Tyler Mulkin posted NCAA provisional qualifying marks […]

Courtesy photo*My Brother is an Only Child*The Film & Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences will host the 2008 Italian Film Festival of St. Louis April 4 to 19. The festival will feature the St. Louis premieres of six recent Italian feature films, screened on Fridays and Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. All films will be shown in 35mm format in Italian with English subtitles.

Richard J. Parvis, professor emeritus at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and leader in the area of international social development, died Sunday, Feb. 24. He was 92.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s spring lecture series focuses on pressing policy issues such as social security and public health. The series kicks off at 11 a.m. Friday, March 28, with a lecture titled “Is There a Social Security Crisis?” by Michael J. Astrue, commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Astrue’s presentation […]

The Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CRIE) at the School of Law will host “Open-Source and Proprietary Models of Innovation: Beyond Ideology,” April 4-5 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

The ninth annual Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award, given to a husband and wife who have provided exemplary leadership in community advancement, was presented to Thelma E. and David L. Steward at the Harbison House February 28.

It’s a busy, event-filled week for the Assembly Series, as four nationally-renowned speakers — a noted plant biologist, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, an editor of a national newspaper and an acclaimed humorist — all will speak on campus.

The School of Medicine is doubling the size of its clinical presence at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital.

WUSTL physics professors will review some fundamental ideas in physics — from thermodynamics to quantum mechanics — during the regular Saturday Science seminar series sponsored by the Department of Physics in Arts & Sciences and University College. This semester, the theme of the lectures will be “Concepts in Physics.”

Throughout history, people have been fascinated by extremes, whether it’s the tallest mountain, the longest river or the deepest sea. Julian Edison is no exception — only instead of things large, it’s small books that fascinate him. Edison, a noted miniature book collector, is displaying approximately 200 of his volumes in the exhibition “Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures,” which opened at Olin Library March 17.