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Photo by Kevin LowderXiaoqi Shi performs on violin and Fei Sun plays the pipa (a Chinese lute) during the Chinese New Year Celebration Feb. 17 in Brown Hall Lounge. Nearly 400 people attended the event, which was sponsored by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association.

Photo by Robert BostonSecond-year medical students play Jeopardy to review for an exam in Diseases of the Nervous System.

WUSTL provides one basic level and offers two supplemental levels of long-term disability benefits that are determined by employees’ base annual salary.

To commemorate the sesquicentennial of the infamous 1857 Supreme Court decision, the University is hosting a national symposium on “The Dred Scott Case and Its Legacy: Race, Law and the Struggle for Equality” March 1-3.

Timothy J. Eberlein, M.D., received the 2006 Dr. Rodman L. Sheen and Thomas G. Sheen Award for his outstanding contributions to the medical profession.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra will present the free concert at 3 p.m. Feb. 25 in Graham Chapel.

School of Medicine heart surgeons have developed and tested a device that radically shortens and simplifies a complex surgical procedure for persistent atrial fibrillation.

A total of $2 million in research grants to investigators on both the Danforth and Medical School campuses opens the door for science to begin at the Institute.

The regional is one of seven throughout the United States and western Europe.

The form is thought to have developed in the 16th and 17th centuries as a means of self-defense for slaves brought to Brazil by the Portugese.