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Jarvis A. Thurston, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English and former chair of Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, died Monday, Feb. 4, of heart disease at his home in University City. He was 93.

Charles A. Lebens died Thursday, Jan. 10, at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 72.

A group of residents and attending physicians have released a new Washington Manual designed for health-care providers who care for critically ill patients.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host a lecture by Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures and author of the groundbreaking book “Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life” at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, in Brown Hall Lounge. The lecture, titled “Realizing the Experience Dividend […]

Students, faculty and staff throughout the United States are helping make their universities and colleges a little more “green” by instituting academic and campus programs to promote sustainability. While these efforts, ranging from the use of hybrid cars and renewable energy to the reduction of solid waste and greenhouse gas emissions, are impressive, their diversity […]

Jane Loevinger Weissman, Ph.D., professor emeritus of psychology and one of the first in her field to study daily challenges faced by mothers and other women, died Friday (Jan. 4, 2007) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She was 89 and a St. Louis resident.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a series of three artists’ talks and discussions on Feb. 7, 8 and 9. All three events come in conjunction with two new exhibitions: On the Margins, which explores the impact of war and disaster on a range of contemporary artists; and Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings, which features more than two dozen large-scale paintings by the acclaimed Los Angeles painter.

Patients with Parkinson’s disease who took part in regular tango dance classes at the School of Medicine showed significant improvements in balance and mobility.

Shirley K. Baker, Sandor J. Kovacs, Ph.D., M.D., Andrew Rouner and Cassandra Stokes

The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is presenting a series of seminars and workshops on the topic of reducing the damage that would occur when a strong earthquake strikes the New Madrid fault area again.