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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.

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.

Photo by Joe AngelesThe WUSTL Bear congratulates Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth at the conclusion of the Sept. 17 ceremony in Graham Chapel officially naming the Danforth Campus. Harold T. Shapiro, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, gave the keynote address. For more on the day’s events, click here or go online to danforthcampus.wustl.edu.

University Police recently issued the following crime alert. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. On Sept. 11 around 11:30 p.m., a suspect approached […]

Knowing that the cancer is likely to spread quickly from the eye to the liver may allow for earlier, preventive treatments in high-risk patients.

Jacob Schaefer, Ph.D., the Charles Allen Thomas Professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $420,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Solid-State NMR Analysis of Chain Packing and Dynamics in Polycarbonates.” … Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $212,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Synthetic Methodology Development, Utilizing the Physical and Chemical Manipulation of Discrete Nanoscale Objects.” … Luis H. Zayas, Ph.D., the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work, has received a five-year, $1,733,337 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Sociocultural Processes in Latina Suicide Attempts.” … Elliot L. Elson, Ph.D., the Alumni Endowed Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, was named to the 2007 class of Society Fellows by the Biophysical Society for his pioneering and influential work in biophysics and for significantly extending the understanding of the dynamics of biological macromolecules, cells and tissues; and for his development of novel techniques to study these systems. … Jane Phillips-Conroy, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and in the Department of Anthropology, has received grants from the Leakey Foundation and the National Geographical Society to undertake field research on hybrid baboons of eastern and central Zambia (2006-07) and funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for a conference entitled “Evolutionary Anthropology at the Interface”, to be held in New York in 2007.