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Photo by Joe AngelesThe Sam Fox Arts Center held the “Festival of the Arts” to spotlight construction of the Kemper Art Museum and Walker Hall.

The pioneer in the development of several areas of mathematics died at Barnes-Jewish Hospital Oct. 16; he was 74.

Photo by Mary ButkusNurse Marilyn Bennett won the Guiding Star Award, which is given annually to honor a clinical staff member at the medical school.

Photo by David KilperAndrea Heugatter, one of the newest faculty fellows in the South 40, enjoys a conversation wtih freshmen Kevin Tang and Shi Su.The goal of the faculty fellows program is to help integrate academic and residential life by having professors live in the residence halls.

Since beginning her career in journalism and broadcasting, Farai Chideya has focused on finding out the truth about what young American adults — especially those of color — believe and value. In an Assembly Series lecture Oct. 27, she will share her thoughts and discuss what young Americans can do to help remedy some of […]

Gerald Torres, co-author with Lani Guinier of The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, a treatise on race in America, will speak for both the Assembly Series and the School of Law. The lecture, “Knowledge, Power and Democracy: Insights From the Civil Rights and Environmental Movements,” will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 28 […]

Investigators are launching several projects aimed at preventing the global spread of HIV infection by reducing high-risk behaviors. More medical articles

National experts addressed the most pressing political issues in health care at the Oct. 7 “Health Care Challenges Facing the Nation” conference at the Washington University Medical Center. Prominent among the bevy of hot topics were discussions about limiting access to health care to help alleviate rapidly escalating health care costs. Read more in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article by Rachel Melcer.

Researchers at the School of Medicine and colleagues in the International Human Genome Sequencing Project have published their scientific description of the finished human genome, reducing the estimated number of human genes from 35,000 to only 20,000-25,000, a surprisingly low number for our species.

The Reduced Shakespeare CompanyConfused by Confucius? Thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter or Tennyson tinier? Not to worry! The world renowned Reduced Shakespeare Company, those “bad boys of abridgement,” will return to Edison Theatre Nov. 19 and 20 for the St. Louis premiere of All the Great Books (abridged), an action-packed literary romp through everything you should have read in high school but probably didn’t.