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Successful students have help at home.Many kids dread them, but all parents should embrace them. Parent-teacher conferences can play an integral role in a child’s education. In the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, Dennis O’Brien, research associate in psychiatry, gives a few tips for successful parent-teacher conferencing.

Undergraduate tuition at Washington University in St. Louis will total $31,100 for the 2005-06 academic year — a $1,400 (4.7 percent) increase over the 2004-05 academic year. The required student activity fee will total $311, and the student health fee will be $631. The announcement was made by Barbara A. Feiner, vice chancellor for finance. Room-and-board charges for 2005-06 will be $10,754, an increase of $462 (4.5 percent) over the current year’s charges of $10,292 for the full meal plan and newer student housing.

Brain cells in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease have surprised scientists with their ability to recuperate after the disorder’s characteristic brain plaques are removed.

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

Renowned psychologist and educator Na’im Akbar will present the first of this spring’s lectures on Jan. 26.

The new academic and administrative unit will bring together nationally ranked programs in art and architecture and the Kemper Art Museum.

This year, in a display of solidarity, philanthropy or just plain wackiness, University Police members will once again jump into a chilly lake — in early February. But it’s for a good cause. It’s just one of the ways the police help raise funds for the Special Olympics. “We also sell T-shirts and hats and […]

Richard J. Smith, the Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor and chair of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, will serve as its chair.

He was a former research associate in the School of Medicine.

Effective immediately, he will serve as special assistant to the current dean, Cynthia Weese; she’ll step down June 30 and return to private practice.