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Courtesy photoBonnie Jo CampbellFiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, for the Writing Program Reading Series. Campbell is the author Q Road (2002), named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book, and the collection Women & Other Animals (1999), which won the prestigious Associated Writing Programs prize for short fiction.

Survival of heart attack and unstable angina patients placed on beta-blocker therapy corresponds to specific variations in their genes, according to a study by researchers at the School of Medicine and the Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City.

Washington University Web guidelines allow personal pages produced by students, graduates, faculty or staff members. The university does not monitor these personal pages and is not responsible for their content. As long as personal Web pages comply with local, state and federal law — and do not involve copyright infringement, constitute libel or harassment, contain […]

David Kilper*Hair*Break out the love beads and buckskin fringe. Hair is back. Subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, Hair was one of the most popular and controversial plays of the 1960s, a Broadway smash for the “sex, drugs and rock-and-roll” generation, sparking radio hits and national protests. In October, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will revive this countercultural classic as its fall Mainstage production.

Created by Cindy Cooper and directed by Joan Lipkin, the presentation describes the real-life effects of policies.

Photo by Robert BostonGuests socialize during the Sept. 16 opening celebration of the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center on the Medical Campus.

Rock evidence indicated to WUSTL scientists that water froze and melted there at some point in Martian history.

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

Volleyball team claims Teri Clemens crown The No. 1 volleyball team defeated three more highly ranked teams en route to winning the third annual Teri Clemens Invitational. The Bears knocked off No. 13 Trinity University, 3-1, and followed with a come-from-behind 3-2 win against No. 8 University of La Verne to claim the tournament title […]

The four lectures — free and open to the public — in October surround the theme “Understanding the Heavens.”