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Photo by Mary ButkusAlumnus A.E. Hotchner, a renowned author, playwright and editor, read an excerpt from “The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner” and signed autographs Oct. 17 at Olin Library.

The Office of Human Resources has announced several enhancements to the health plans for faculty and staff that will be effective Jan. 1, 2008. It also will hold 14 informational meetings to give faculty and staff a chance to ask questions about health benefits during open enrollment, which begins Nov. 1 and ends Nov. 30.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Oct. 19 – Oct. 23. 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. Oct 19 12:42 p.m. […]

Social activist and Black Entertainment Television commentator Jeff Johnson will present the annual Black Arts & Sciences Festival lecture at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 31 in Edison Theatre. His talk, sponsored by the University’s Assembly Series and the Association of Black Students, will suggest strategies for developing effective organizations for future leaders: “BECOME Activists: Building Effective Campus Organizations and Maintaining Excellence.”

Courtesy PhotoA participant in the Mini-Medical School I course gets some tips on suturing a simulated laceration from Corey Ming-Lum, M.D.

In its first performance in St. Louis, the American Indian Repertory Theatre (AIRT) will present “Weaving the Rain,” an award winning play by Dianne Yeahquo Reyner. The play is being hosted by Washington University’s Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies and will be shown at 8 p.m. Nov. 10 and 2 p.m. Nov. 11 in the Village Black Box Theater, located within The Village dormitory complex at the intersection of Forest Park Parkway and Big Bend Blvd.

Rhythms for Rebuilding, WUSTL’s largest benefit concert, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in Graham Chapel and will feature WUSTL’s entire a capella community. The event will raise money for causes related to hunger and poverty.

“An Impending Influenza Pandemic? What has been learned from 1918?” is the focus of a St. Louis community forum from 7:45-11:45 a.m. Nov. 9 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The program features discussions by city, county and national health directors and explores how St. Louis can use lessons from past flu outbreaks to prepare for a global bird flu pandemic that some experts see lurking on the horizon.

William H. Gass, Ph.D., the David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, was presented with the 2007 Saint Louis Literary Award during a ceremony Oct. 24 at Saint Louis University.

Washington University researcher Stanton Braude, lecturer in biology in Arts & Sciences, says the secret to a long life in humans might exist in the wrinkled body of one of the world’s ugliest animals — the naked mole rat.