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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 Mary ButkusBig Read Festival, sponsored by the Campus Store, draws writers and readers.

Photo by Joe AngelesHabif Health & Wellness Center dedication opens the door to promoting sound body and mind.

Oct. 25-31 Oct. 27 4:28 p.m. — An item was reported missing from artwork display in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum was described as a Tootsie Roll wrapper, and was possibly mistaken as trash. Oct. 30 1:48 p.m. — The reporting party stated that unknown person(s) stole computer equipment from the first floor conference room closet of Goldfarb Hall between noon Oct. 27 and 11:50 a.m. Oct. 30. Oct. 31 10:07 a.m. — Audio-video services reported unknown person(s) stole a Dell computer, keyboard, mouse and wireless hub from the electronics cabinet in Brown Hall, Room 205. The theft occurred between 1:30 p.m. Oct. 26 and 11:30 a.m. Oct. 30. Total loss is estimated at $1,500. Additionally, University Police responded to five larcenies and one auto acciden

A finding by School of Medicine researchers could allow them to seek new therapies and understand what goes wrong in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.