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Up to $100,000 will be available for WUSTL students for internships and innovative projects this summer in the form of social change grants, stipends for internships through the Career Center and the Gephardt Institute for Public Service summer service stipend program. A meeting will be at 4 p.m. Nov. 1 in Lambert Lounge in Mallinckrodt Student Center to discuss the various opportunities for students.

People with mental illnesses lose 25 to 30 years of life expectancy compared to the general population, mostly due to cardiovascular disease, a School of Medicine psychiatrist writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Go to BearSports The No. 5 Bears defeated Division II University of Missouri-St. Louis, 3-0, Oct. 17. Senior Haleigh Spencer and junior Nikki Morrison, who each finished the match with 15 kills, led the Bears offensively. The two combined to hit .371 in the win. Spencer had five kills in each of the three games […]

School of Medicine research has opened the possibility that physicians may be able to use established drugs to treat brain tumors.

Utah’s acclaimed Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company will present “Nikolais Dance Theatre,” an evening-length collection of visionary multimedia works that transform dance into a visual and kinetic art. The show, an homage to innovative dancer Alwin Nikolais, begins at 8 p.m. Nov. 2 and 3 as part of Edison Theatre’s OVATIONS! Series.

William F. Stenson, M.D., has been named the Dr. Nicholas V. Costrini Professor of Gastroenterology & Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the School of Medicine.

Poet and author Susan Wheeler, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work Thursday, Oct. 25, and speak on the craft of poetry Tuesday, Oct. 30.

Andrey Shaw, M.D., the Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology, has been named an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Six outstanding alumni will be honored for their service to and support of their alma mater at the University’s Founders Day celebration scheduled for Nov. 3 at America’s Center. Selected by the Alumni Board of Governors, the Distinguished Alumni Award recipients are: Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University; Charlotte D. Jacobs, oncologist and professor of medicine at Stanford University; Steven F. Leer, chairman and chief executive officer of Arch Coal, Inc.; William B. Pollard III, a partner in Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP law firm; Philip D. Shelton, former president and executive director of the Law School Admission Council; and J. J. Stupp, chief financial officer of Exegy Inc., a technology licensing company.

Cheryl Block, J.D., Jeff Catalano, Ph.D., Mariska Leunissen, Ph.D., and Ron Shalev, Ph.D.