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Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles, will be participating.

Jonathan Turner, the Henry Edwin Sever Professor of Engineering, has been named the committee’s chair.

Photo by Jennifer Weisbord/WUSTLChancellor Mark. S. Wrighton announces the formation of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at a news conference Oct. 19 in New York.The Academy partners a major American university with top foreign universities and leading multinational corporations.

Brett Hyde, Ph.D., Zohar Nussinov, Ph.D., Mona Lena Krook, Ph.D. and Frank Lovett, Ph.D.

The program supports a group called “100 Neediest Cases,” a joint project of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the United Way.

Photo by Kevin LowderThe annual Parents Weekend drew more than 1,200 families from all over the country to campus, where they enjoyed numerous activities.

There is no Campus Watch for this issue of the Record.

TeitelbaumSteven Teitelbaum, professor of pathology and immunology, was one of several experts invited to testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, chaired by Senator Arlen Specter, regarding the benefits of stem cell research. Read Teitelbaum’s testimony here.

Courtesy photoBrenda Marie OsbeyBrenda Marie Osbey, Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana, will host a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina currently staying in the St. Louis area from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, in The Gargoyle. Osbey, a native of New Orleans, will read from her work and discuss Katrina’s effects on the city. In addition, the event will feature Dixieland music by St. Louis’ Bourbon Street Band, while Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, will speak on “The Death of Jazz and the Birth of New Orleans.”

Audio clips from the McDonnell International Scholars Academy press conference in New York. Internet listening quality clips are followed by broadcast quality clips.