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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.

Journalist and author David Rieff will give a talk for the Holocaust Memorial Lecture as part of the Washington University Assembly Series at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 8, in Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Photo by David KilperA leading authority on prisons and inmate litigation, Margo Schlanger, J.D., (left), professor of law, teamed with colleagues and students to create an electronic library of documents related to civil rights injunctive cases.The School of Law’s new, free online Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse puts important documents a click away.

Award-winning School of Social Work professor and scholar will serve four-year term.

Promising public-sector career and internship opportunities await undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students.

Paul VertucioShapiro & Smith DanceAs young dancers in the mid-1980s, Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith frequently spent their evenings with Smith’s sister, the violinist Soozie Tyrell, and her best friend, a young singer-songwriter named Patty Scialfa. In the years since, Shapiro and Smith emerged as internationally renowned choreographers, praised by The New York Times for their “strong, sharp edged dancing and daring theatricality.” Meanwhile, Tyrell and Scialfa would both go on to perform as members of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. More recently, the quartet reunited to create Anytown: Stories of America, a dance theater piece based on Springsteen’s songs. In November, the show will make its St. Louis premiere at Washington University’s Edison Theatre.

It’s election season once again, but the political fun continues even after votes are cast. On Thursday, Nov. 9, the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will host “Playwrights and Politics: Two Acts on the National and International Scene.” The symposium will examine the nature of political theatre and the impact of the arts on national and international politics.

Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoThe Kemper Art Museum, designed by Fumihiko Maki, is both the centerpiece and the public face of the university’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The five-building, $56.8 million complex also features Maki’s new Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall, which will house studios, classrooms and offices for art students and faculty. Click to see photos from the Oct. 25 dedication of both buildings.

bell hooks, the ground-breaking feminist author, teacher, social activist and cultural critic, will give the Black Arts & Sciences Lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m., Wednesday, November 1 in Graham Chapel. The lecture, “Self-Determination: Where Do We Begin?” is free and open to the public.