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Photo by Robert BostonEmil Unanue helps unveil a portrait of Charles Kilo and thanks him for his years of support of the Department of Pathology.

Thirteen junior and senior fashion design students will off show their latest couture creations at the Feb. 24 event.

Contributions have totaled slightly more than $551,000, and pledges are still coming in; this year’s goal was $525,000.

Written and composed by alum Eric Dienstfrey, the special, one-night-only performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18.

A gift of $1.2 million was augmented with $300,000 from the University’s Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge.

Scientists genetically altered production of a factor found in skeletal muscle and produced mice that can’t get fat but develop signs of diabetes. More medical news

File PhotoBarbara Schaal will serve a four-year term as vice president of the highly prestigious group beginning July 1.She is “a premier scientist, and it is rewarding to the scientific community that she has been elected to such an important leadership role,” Chancellor Wrighton says.

Benjamin Allen, a music major in Arts & Sciences, will present a senior honors recital on at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, at Grace United Methodist Church. The concert, which is free and open to the public, reflects three distinct areas that Allen has pursued at Washington University: composition, conducting and trombone.

He’ll speak Feb. 23 in Graham Chapel for the Assembly Series; he’s the Dowd Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina.

On Feb. 26, WUSTL Police and Parking Services, in partnership with Hartmann’s Towing, will once again sponsor a free traveler’s vehicle inspection service to students, faculty and staff. Persons anticipating traveling by car for spring break can bring their vehicle to the parking lot outside the Police/Parking Office on the South 40 between noon-3 p.m. […]