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The Pikers, WUSTL’s oldest a cappella ensemble group, are staging a concert Nov. 11 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the group’s founding. More than 50 Pikers alumni will return to St. Louis from across the country to join the current student Pikers in a showcase of the group’s greatest hits and evolving performance style.

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Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, will speak on “The Great Jazz Schism” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14. A former editor of Down Beat magazine, Morgenstern has won six Grammy awards for best album notes and served as a senior advisor to Ken Burns 10-part PBS series Jazz. Earlier this year he was named a “Jazz Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts — a designation The New York Times calls “the nation’s highest jazz honor.”

WHAT: The Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis is hosting the National Association of Women M.B.A.’s conference and job fair. More than 800 women from all over the country are expected to attend. WHEN: Nov. 3-5, 2006. Starting at 8 a.m. WHERE: The Knight Center and Simon Hall at Washington University, […]

The Washington University Wind Ensemble will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in the University’s Graham Chapel. Dan Presgrave, instrumental music coordinator in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, directs the program, which includes music of Franz Joseph Haydn, Malcolm Arnold, Franz von Suppé and Gordon Jacob.

Mezzo soprano Jade Lin Hornbaker, a master’s candidate in vocal performance in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will present a graduate voice recital at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, in the auditorium of the Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering. The program includes music of Modest Mussorgsky, Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc and John Ireland.

Photo by Beth MillerTheodore Armstrong, a pre-doctoral fellow, and Jourdan Stuart, a first-year medical student, discuss a patient they examined with Will R. Ross, M.D., faculty supervisor, assistant professor of medicine and associate dean for diversity, at the Saturday Neighborhood Health Clinic in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood.School of Medicine students are learning about social medicine on Saturday mornings in Forest Park Southeast.

Daniel Kelly, M.D., has been named director of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Department of Medicine.

Dean Shapiro plans to give updates on the School of Medicine’s key initiatives, including the tobacco-free initiative, addressing pandemic flu, and the New Interstate 64 project.

Architecture students’ works drive an initiative to improve street designs.