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To help ensure the security before, during and after the Presidential Debate at Washington University on October 8, traffic will be restricted or, in some limited cases, completely prohibited on streets near and within the Washington University HILLTOP campus throughout the day of the event.

To stick to cells in the respiratory tract and start an infection, the bacterium Haemophilus influenza has to secrete a glue-like protein. Researchers at the School of Medicine recently reported that a study of the valve that lets out the glue has produced some surprising information.

The Commission on Presidential Debates’ deadline for credentialing for the October 8 debate has expired. The Commission will no longer be credentialing media for the debate in the Athletic Complex. However, media who want to be on campus October 7 and October 8 for other debate-related activities, Washington University in St. Louis will be issuing […]

The following Washington University international students are available for comment to the media. Please use the direct contact information listed for each student. Also: Student Leaders at the Debate Available for Interviews Also: Students with Tickets to the Debate Available for Interviews Also: Medical Students Available for Interviews Name Country Field of Study Phone E-mail […]

A media briefing on physical and technological transformation of Washington University’s Field House into a “Town Hall” setting for the second presidential debate will be held at the university’s Athletic Complex at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4. • St. Louis County Police Press Release

Hugh MacdonaldHugh Macdonald, the Avis Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will launch the Center for the Humanities’ 2004-05 Translation Series with a talk “On Translating Opera” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1.

A well-known enzyme present in the skin and other tissues turns out to be a molecule-sized motor that extracts its fuel from the road it runs on, according to researchers at the School of Medicine. Their discovery appears in the Oct. 1 issue of Science.

• Also see the Debate events calendar The Presidential Image: 60 Years of the Best in White House Photography Through Oct. 11. Lobby of John M. Olin Library, Lvl. 1, Viewable during library hours. This exhibition presents 68 prize-winning photographs of presidents from Franklin Roosevelt through George W. Bush. Contact: Andrew Clendennen. Office of Public […]

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

The protein is the first of its kind to be identified in B cells and could provide scientists with a new target for treatments.