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Photo by Robert BostonSchool of Medicine researchers found that patients with Parkinson’s disease improve their balance and walking by learning the tango.

Photo by Mary ButkusThe four finalists in the School of Law’s Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competition experienced what most lawyers only dream of — arguing before John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States. “To be able to argue in front of one of the sharpest legal minds in the country was an experience I will never forget,” said Samir Kaushik, a second-year law student who argued the case along with fellow second-year law student Renee Waters during the Feb. 6 competition in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

The New York Times’ Supreme Court correspondent and a member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina are part of the spring lineup.

His research long has focused on applying digital tools to design and construction practice. In 1992, his work in digital-aided manufacturing was cited by Engineering News Record as one of the year’s 10 most significant contributions to the construction industry.

The experimental Los Angeles troupe led by artistic director and Academy Award-winner Tim Robbins will present a new stage adaptation of Orwell’s dystopic classic Feb. 16-17.

Photo by Joe AngelesMichael Frachetti, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, speaks on “Decoding Eurasian Nomadic Networks:Integrating Social and Scientific Approaches” at the lunch session of the Metropolitan St. Louis Grants Conference Jan. 10 in Whitaker Hall.

The 150-year-old mission of the Academy of Science of St. Louis is to “foster the advancement of science and encouragement of public interest in and understanding of the sciences.”

Photo by Kevin LowderBruce Lindsey (right), dean of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, leads a group of students in a Renga building workshop Jan. 27-28 in Givens Hall.

The men’s and women’s basketball teams each win two league games over the weekend.

John DiPersio, M.D., Ph.D., the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Professor of Medicine, has received a one-year, $21,197 subcontract from Northwestern University for “Phrase I & II Clinical Trials of Cancer Chemopreventive Agents.” … Jennifer L. Ivanovich, research instructor in surgery, has received a one-year, $34,789 grant from the St. Louis Affiliate of the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation for “The Young Women’s Breast Cancer Program.” … Thomas A. Woolsey, M.D., professor of neurological surgery, has received a two-year, $30,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for the Spring Brain Conference.