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GreenbaumStuart Greenbaum, dean of the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver his annual State of the School address at the Olin School’s Century Club Speaker series on Thursday, May 12 at 8 a.m.

St. Louis is the site for the world’s premier software engineering annual conference from May 15-21 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel. The 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005) features the latest research in software engineering, displays, exhibits, seminars, co-located conferences, and social gatherings that bring the world’s elite together in an unprecedented hub of activity in information technology (IT) in the Gateway City. Gruia-Catalin Roman, Ph.D., Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, is the general chair for ICSE 2005 and was highly influential in bringing the conference to St. Louis,

For technicians in the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at the School of Medicine, work is going to go a whole lot faster — hundreds of times faster, in fact. Fast enough to sequence the entire genome of a bacterial organism in one day instead of several weeks.

Courtesy of Cell MetabolismMay ’05 coverWhere fat comes from determines whether the body can metabolize it effectively. Researchers at the School of Medicine have found that the “old” fat stored in the body’s peripheral tissues — that is, around the belly, thighs or bottom — can’t be burned efficiently unless “new” fat is eaten in the diet or made in the liver.

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • Autism study (week of May 4) • Low fat, not no fat (week of May 11) • West Nile virus cure (week of May 18) • Improving Crohn’s disease (week of May 25)

Washington University will bestow honorary degrees on five notable people during its 144th Commencement on May 20. The university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,300 students during the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle. Richard A. Gephardt, former U.S. House minority and majority leader, will deliver the Commencement address.

Washington University’s Kingsbury Ensemble will conclude its 2004-05 season with works of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) — today’s most popular composers of the Baroque era. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall. Tickets are $5 to $15.

Applicants from the basic sciences, epidemiological and behavioral science departments are especially encouraged to apply.

Tennis teams head to NCAA tourney The men’s and women’s tennis teams are headed to the NCAA Tournament for the sixth-consecutive season, as announced by the NCAA Division III tennis committee. The No. 16 women’s team travels to Denison University for the Central Regional on May 7-8. WUSTL (9-8) takes on No. 6 DePauw University […]

When he was young, Bruce D. Lindsay, M.D., associate professor of medicine, liked to wrestle. Back then, his opponents were scrappy kids from Haddonfield, N. J., bent on proving their worth. Today, the stakes are higher for Lindsay, but the characteristics of a good wrestler — intelligence, action and especially perseverance — are clear in […]