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Paul J. Donnelly, the Rebecca and John Voyles Chair in Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has received the Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Donnelly is one of only five professors to receive the annual honor, which recognizes sustained creative achievement in architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research and service.

Photo by David KilperJohn Baugh, Ph.D., the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, studies how and why people react to linguistic differences

Photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, a pre-eminent chronicler of American youth culture with a focus on eating disorders, will speak about her work at 11 a.m. March 7 in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series. A viewing of her highly rated HBO documentary feature film “Thin” will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 6 in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium, followed by a panel discussion.

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Sponsored by the Danforth Campus Martin Luther King Commemoration Committee, proceeds from the concert will provide book scholarships to St. Louis-area freshmen entering Morehouse.

A School of Medicine group used birth data to analyze autism prevalence among children in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

The survival rate for pancreatic cancer patients use to be less than a year, but advances in surgical techniques and follow-up treatment have improved the rate for many according to William Hawkins and Steven Stasberg. Both are doctors at the School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center.

Jeff PikeJeff Pike, dean of the College of Art and the Graduate School of Art, has been named the first Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr., Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, according to dean Carmon Colangelo, the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration in the Arts. The professorship was made possible by a gift from Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr., both of whom hold degrees in art from Washington University. A formal installation ceremony took place Feb. 27.

Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, will deliver the School of Law’s 2007 Tyrrell Williams Lecture on “The New Supreme Court: Continuity and Change” at 4 p.m. March 7 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Europa, an intriguing moon of Jupiter, could be key in the mystery of the origins of life, said William B. McKinnon, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences.