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School of Medicine researchers are evaluating dietary supplements to determine if they can prevent damage from age-related macular degeneration.

“The Social Impact of a University” will be presented by Jonathan Fanton, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation at 4:30 p.m. April 5 in Brown Hall Lounge. This Danforth Lecture is sponsored by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the Assembly Series.

Courtesy PhotoMichael Chicoine shares his skill, expertise with Africa’s less privileged

Eighteen WUSTL schools, academic areas and departments at the graduate and professional level now hold top-10 rankings in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional programs, released today. For a complete list of these rankings, go online to rankings.wustl.edu.

Photo by David KilperJessica Deneweth (right), a senior biomedical engineering major, leads a tour for prospective students from the Class of 2011 and their families, who are on campus to learn about the University through various activities as part of the 15th annual April Welcome.

Researchers at the University and elsewhere recently helped the St. Louis Science Center probe the mysteries of a baby mummy. The mummy, part of the Science Center’s collection of artifacts for two decades, went on permanent public display on March 15 in conjunction with the arrival of an IMAX film on mummies.

Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences will present a two-day “Publishing Weekend” April 6 and 7. The event will focus on various aspects of the publishing industry and will include talks and panel discussions with publishers, editors, authors and agents from both mainstream and independent presses.

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 the Assembly Series on April 11 in Graham Chapel.

George Warren Brown School of Social Work students from various countries will offer a taste of their homelands through traditional foods and lively entertainment.

The School of Law is hosting the Philip D. Shelton Symposium titled “A Higher Sense of Purpose: Access to Higher Education and the Professions,” from 1-4:30 p.m. on April 12 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. This symposium is the final event in the “A Higher Sense of Purpose” series, part of the Danforth Campus naming celebration.