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Photo by David KilperMistaken identities, hidden lovers, mischievous servants and duels in the dark highlight “House of Desires” at Edison Theatre for two weekends starting April 13. The show is the spring mainstage production for the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.

Social activist, educator and one of the Little Rock Nine, Minnijean Brown Trickey will present “Return to Little Rock” for the Women’s Society annual Adele Starbird Lecture at 11 a.m. April 11 in Graham Chapel. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the event that made Brown Trickey part of American history.

Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping, or diminishing, deep in the Earth’s mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean — the first evidence for water existing in the Earth’s deep mantle.

A School of Medicine clinical study is investigating the link between blood fat and heart health in patients with type 2 diabetes.

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Courtesy photo*Jestem (I Am)*Washington University’s Center for the Humanities and Program in Film & Media Studies will host their Third Annual Children’s Film Symposium Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21. Presented in conjunction with Cinema St. Louis, the event will feature screenings of three children’s films — Greyfriars Bobby, The Black Cauldron and Jestem (I Am) — as well as talks by historian Stephen Watts and filmmaker Sandy Tung.

Photo by Joe AngelesNirmal Choradia, a sophomore biomedical engineering major in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, takes the driver’s seat in the Save a Life drunk driving simulator April 2 in Mallinckrodt Student Center.

Photo by David KilperRosemary Gliedt helps keep the Skandalaris Center moving forward

The University has been selected to become a chapter member of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Two graduate students and a post-doctoral research associate became the first inductees into the WUSTL chapter.

An American Indian Pow Wow, a presentation on American Indian mascots in sports and a traditional food tasting are among the highlights of the University’s American Indian Awareness Week April 9-14.