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Photo by Kevin LowderMembers of the Catholic Student Center’s Cod Squad (from left) Chris McGee, Patty Navarro and Dan Combest are served cod at the Friday night fish fry March 30 at St. Gabriel Parish in south St. Louis.

“Civic Service Worldwide,” a comprehensive collection of the latest research and policy developments in civic service worldwide, provides an informed assessment of what works and what doesn’t work in the field.

The following incidents were reported to University Police March 28-April 4. 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. Crime Alert On March 28, University […]

A mandible from a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and being studied by Erik Trinkaus Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences.Researchers at WUSTL and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing have been studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and have determined that the “out of Africa” dispersal of modern humans may not have been as simple as once thought.

Fiction writers Elizabeth Graver and Edward Schwarzschild, both alumni of Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from their work at 8 p.m. Friday, April 13. Graver (MFA ’90) is the author of a short story collection, Have You Seen Me? (1991), and three novels: The Honey Thief (1999), Unravelling (1999) and Awake (2004). Schwarzschild (Ph.D. ’94, MA ’89) is author of the novel Responsible Men (2005).

The Washington University Concert Choir will perform music based on Old Testament texts at 8 p.m. Friday, April 13, in Graham Chapel. John Stewart, director of vocal activities, directs the program, which will include the music of William Byrd, Josquin Despres, Johannes Brahms and Randall Thompson.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ph.D., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, will deliver the keynote address for the 12th annual Chancellor’s Fellowship Conference at 2 p.m. April 26 in Graham Chapel at Washington University. Gates, also director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, will talk on “African Americans and Documentary Film.”

Lisa KohlerCharles MacKayCharles MacKay, general director of Opera Theatre of St Louis, will speak on “The Next Four Hundred Years of Opera” for the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences. MacKay has led Opera Theatre for more than 20 years, during which time the company has won national and international acclaim for its innovative repertory and discovery of important young singers.

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced Monday that it has received proposals from 19 potential 2008 debate sites, including Washington University in St. Louis. The CPD will conduct site surveys during the next several months and plans to announce the final sites in October.

The University has added a link to its Web page for easy access to the latest information on the Interstate 64/Highway 40 construction project.