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A School of Medicine study suggests that the most commonly prescribed anti-diabetes drug could potentially improve pregnancy outcomes in women with insulin resistance.

Photo by Whitney CurtisStudents from Umrath House gathered around Vito Acconci’s “Face of the Earth” (1988) at Laumeier Sculpture Park last Saturday afternoon. The 96-acre outdoor museum in Sunset Hills, Mo., contains more than 80 monumental works by internationally known contemporary artists.

Richard P. Sloan, professor of behavioral medicine in psychiatry at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital at the Columbia University Medical Center, will respond to the question, “Is Religion Good for Your Health?” at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, in Graham Chapel. Sloan’s talk is free and open to the public.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo ServicesNoga Landau and Sathya SridharanThree aspiring playwrights will present staged readings of their works Sept. 25 and 26 as part of 2007 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival, sponsored by the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences. Named in honor of alumnus A.E. Hotchner (AB and JD ’40), the festival consists of an intensive two-week workshop that culminates in the staged readings. Each of the participating plays — which are selected by jury — will also be eligible for a full production as part of the PAD’s 2008-09 season.

Swenson will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Visiting Artist Lecture Series on Wednesday, Sept. 26, with a 7 p.m. talk about his work.

An enriched peanut-butter mixture given at home is successfully promoting recovery in large numbers of starving children in Malawi, research by Mark Manary, M.D., shows.

Best-selling suspense author Ridley Pearson will read the children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” — the official campaign book for Jumpstart’s “Read for the Record” — at 4 p.m. Sept. 20, in the University’s Campus Store on the Danforth Campus.

Pianist Carolbeth True and trumpeter Randy Holmes will perform for the Jazz at Holmes Series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20.

Washington University will name its new university center in honor of Chancellor Emeritus William H. and the late Elizabeth (Ibby) Gray Danforth, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced Sept. 19. The building is under construction on the University’s Danforth Campus at the intersection of Forsyth Boulevard and Wallace Drive.

Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning has received a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support research that will help modify the Peer Led Team Learning program, which helps to meet the needs of students with disabilities enrolled in introductory chemistry, physics and calculus classes.