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Brock ClarkeNovelist Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (2007), will read from his work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. The book — Clarke’s fourth — tells the darkly comic story of Sam Pulsifer, a literary bumbler who, at the age of 18, accidentally burns down the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, Mass.

• Various lane closures are scheduled through Nov. 2.

Tom R. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiology and of biomedical engineering, died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007, at his home in Webster Groves. He was 63.

Six School of Medicine faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

Washington University students looking for a career that will help shape the future of the United States can find a wealth of information during “A Call to Service,” a series of events promoting government and public policy careers from Nov. 7-9.

Photo by Robert BostonA $30 million gift from BJC HealthCare will help construct a new seven-story research building on the School of Medicine campus.

The largest building ever constructed on the School of Medicine campus will be the home base for BioMed 21, the University’s innovative research initiative designed to speed scientific discovery and to rapidly apply breakthroughs to patient care.

In print Carter C. Revard, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences, has a poem titled “We do like Capistrano, but …” in the current issue (Vol. 12, No. 2) of Salamander, a magazine for poetry, fiction and memoirs. His scholarly essay titled “Oppositional Thematics and Metanarrative in MS Harley 2253, Quires 1-6” […]

Actor Peter Sarsgaard, a 1991 WUSTL alumnus and one of the stars of the current film “Rendition,” will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 at Graham Chapel. The event is sponsored by Congress of the South 40.

Charly Coleman, Ph.D., Clifton R. Emery, Ph.D., Carl Minzner, J.D., John Orrock, Ph.D., Thomas Sattig, Ph.D., Vincent Sherry, Ph.D., Julie Singer, Ph.D., Ying Xie, Ph.D.