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Oren SlorTom Friedman, *There*Play-Doh, spaghetti and aluminum foil — sculptor Tom Friedman transforms mundane consumer products into playful yet meticulously crafted artworks of almost obsessive intricacy. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will inaugurate its new College of Art Gallery with Pure Invention, an exhibition of work by the renowned Washington University alumnus.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art MuseumWillem de Kooning, *Saturday Night*Over the last 125 years, Washington University has built one of the nation’s finest university art collections by focusing primarily on the acquisition and display of contemporary work. On Oct. 25, the university will dedicate its new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, a dramatic, light-filled structure designed to showcase the renowned permanent collection as well as a vibrant program of temporary exhibitions. The opening will feature three special exhibitions as well as thematic installations highlighting landscape, portraiture, abstraction and artworks that engage the everyday.

He was professor of medicine for 22 years.

Walker comes to the University from her position as president and chief investment officer of Qwest Asset Management Co., where she oversees $14 billion in retirement and other assets.

Photo by Mary ButkusMore than 1,100 freshmen and residential advisers volunteered for the eighth annual Service First Sept. 2.

Eric Woolsey*Hickorydickory*From Tennessee Williams to Shepherd Mead and A.E. Hotchner, Washington University boasts a strong tradition of original drama. This year the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will celebrate that tradition with four original plays by alumni, faculty and students. The series begins Sept. 29 to Oct. 8 with Hickorydickory, a playful, Magical-Realist-style work by recent alumna Marisa Wegrzyn.

The football team (1-1) suffered its first setback of the season in a 48-7 loss at No. 25 Wheaton College Sept. 16. The loss snapped the Bears’ six-game road winning streak, and its six-game overall winning streak dating back to last season.

Answering his grandfather’s enduring call to educate the people of India, Singh (M.B.A. 1954) has developed a facility in Chandigarh to educate hundreds of the area’s poorest children

Visitors walking up the Brookings Hall steps have a new sight greeting them just before passing through the archway to the Danforth Campus — a plaza, complete with benches, a fountain and a planter.

The School of Medicine’s Mini-Med I will be held 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays from Sept. 26-Nov. 14.