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Crews will be removing the temporary bridges south of the intersection, back filling the hole and completing the pavement through March 20.

The Web site will be used to support the goal of the Washington University Diversity Initiative, which is to increase racial diversity and gender balance.

Yoram Rudy, Ph.D., Mark S. Wrighton, Chancellor, John C. Morris, M.D., Chrysanthe Preza, Ph.D., Scott Saunders, M.D., J. Perren Cobb, M.D. More…

Taught by Lori Khazen, WUSTL assistant soccer coach and soccer strength coach, the course will be held from 12:10-12:50 p.m. March 14-May 2 in the South 40.

Jane Quinn will speak March 15 and the movie will be shown March 23; both events are in Brown Hall Lounge and are free and open to the public.

Phil KnottDoug Varone and DancersEight-time Bessie Award-winner Doug Varone is among the most acclaimed choreographers of his generation, known for creating works of extraordinary physical daring and vivid musicality. This spring, Varone will bring his celebrated company, Doug Varone and Dancers, to Washington University’s Edison Theatre for a trio of performance co-sponsored by Dance St. Louis.

Photo by David KilperFrank J. Stadermann displays the laboratory’s most recent acquisition for analysis — a cometary dust particle from that mission.The Laboratory for Space Sciences is among the first in the world to receive samples from a NASA mission — microscopic specks of cometary and interstellar dust.

“I suppose you could say I went into art history because it combined my passions for art and travel,” quips Elizabeth Childs, Ph.D., associate professor of art history & archaeology in Arts & Sciences. Indeed, travel does emerge as a kind of unifying theme in Childs’ life and work. Born into an academic family, she […]

PeipertJeffrey F. Peipert, M.D., has become vice chair of clinical research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine. The appointment was announced by George A. Macones, M.D., the Mitchell and Elaine Yanow Professor and head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • Risks of MS drug found to be low (week of Mar. 1) • Plant sterols lower cholesterol (week of Mar. 8) • PET scans help test lung drugs (week of Mar. 15) • Arts as Healing program (week of Mar. 22) • Genetic basis of ADHD (week of Mar. 29)