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The St. Louis Regional Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (STLR-HERC) launched its Web site, stlrherc.org, announced Laurel Sgan, the STLR-HERC’s director. The Web site features a search engine of available positions at academic institutions throughout the St. Louis region. Also included on the Web site are resources for those interested in relocating to the St. Louis […]

The print Record will not be published next week due to spring break. Any late-breaking news of importance to the WUSTL community will appear in the eRecord Monday, March 10.

A better drug for osteoporosis could be on the horizon because of research at the School of Medicine that has uncovered new information.

Students or employees who do not currently hold an annual parking permit but wish to store their vehicles on campus during spring break may do so after obtaining a placard from Parking Services. Individuals must go to the Parking Services office, located at North Campus, during regular business hours to fill out an emergency contact form and receive a complimentary parking placard to display on the vehicle dashboard.

Willie Cole, *Sole Brother 1*The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.

School of Medicine physicians and glaucoma researchers will join eye-care professionals around the world March 6 to observe the first World Glaucoma Day.

Photo by David KilperPeter J. Kastor, Ph.D., associate professor of history and of American culture studies, both in Arts & Sciences. He’s been known to launch a lecture with the “Davy Crockett” theme song, tap academic potential in students before they realize it in themselves and convert physics majors to scholars of the American frontier.

LegomskyA recent academic study confirmed empirically what many immigration experts had already suspected: The chance of winning an asylum case often hinges as much on the luck of the draw as on the merits of the case. Some adjudicators grant asylum liberally while others grant it only rarely, and the disparities are dramatic. The Stanford Law Review asked Stephen Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., leading immigration and asylum law expert and John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to write an article analyzing the policy implications of this study. Legomsky offers a controversial conclusion: “There are times when we simply have to learn to live with unequal justice because the alternatives are worse.”

Physicians and glaucoma researchers in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the School of Medicine will join eye-care professionals around the world on March 6, 2008, to observe the first World Glaucoma Day. The global initiative is aimed at raising awareness of glaucoma, a disease of the optic nerve that affects 65 million people worldwide.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Feb. 20-26. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Feb. 21 4:02 p.m. — A man […]