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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.

St. Louis guitarist Steve Schenkel will perform for Washington University Jazz at Holmes series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are seeking women who have had two or more unexplained first trimester miscarriages to evaluate an experimental treatment to help women carry babies to term.

Original cover art, “Love and Rockets” #15There is no shortcut from popular art to cultural respectability, but few have wandered longer than comic book, which has only recently begun to receive its critical and scholarly due. In October, the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics, a book and a pair of complementary exhibitions that together trace the evolution of comics from early precursors in 18th and 19th century England and Switzerland to turn-of-the-last-century newspapers, the raucous undergrounds of the 1960s and ’70s and the literary alternative comics of today.

The Tango Group at Washington University will begin its fall season of dances and workshops Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 17, 18 and 19.

Arianna Huffington combines humor with intelligence to expose what she sees as fanatics, fools, and pigs at the trough. When she speaks at Washington University on Sept. 15 for the Assembly Series, she will be “Handicapping the presidential race.”