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Photo by Claudia BurrisFirst-year medical students enjoy the annual dean’s welcoming party, held Aug. 19 at the Saint Louis Zoo.

The target is $525,000; “We have a responsibility to carry our share of the support for the United Way,” Chancellor Wrighton says.

During her talk Sept. 15 in Graham Chapel for the Assembly Series, she will be “Handicapping the Presidential Election.”

Don J. Usner/Ventana de Luz PhotographyWrightPoet and playwright Jay Wright, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will give a dramatic reading of his work at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14. In addition, Wright will read from his poetry at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16.

The Tango Group at Washington University will begin its fall season of dances and workshops with a pair of events Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18.

For nearly three years, the Olin School of Business has been seeking newly minted veterans to fill choice seats in its M.B.A. classes.

One goal of these talks is to provide a forum for the University community to engage in a discussion of legal, social and ethical issues.

The principal designer for Pentagram Design in New York, he’ll present a Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture Sept. 13 on “Graphic Design, Big and Small.”

It’s a compilation of essays spanning four decades; they offer clear, no-nonsense economic policy analysis.

In test runs, students reported that online was quicker and easier, and they felt more comfortable filling out the forms away from the classroom.