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In addition, Professor Emeritus Leslie J. Laskey will receive the 2004 Dean’s Medal in recognition of his exceptional dedication and advocacy.

The Office of Human Resources is offering retirement investment education seminars for faculty and staff conducted by consultants from TIAA-CREF and the Vanguard Group. At each session, there will be a discussion of basic investment choices and a review of simple strategies and concepts needed to make sound investment decisions. Topics are assessing your current […]

The admitted students, who received an open invitation to visit any time in late March or April, were chosen from almost 20,000 applications.

Accomplished poet and playwright Ntozake Shange will deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. April 8 in Graham Chapel. Shange is best known for her unique “choreopoem” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, published in 1975. Considered radical at the time for […]

Elliot C. Nelson led a study examining genetic influences on blackouts in general and on the incidence of having three or more of them in a year. More medical articles

Courtesy photoBang on a Can All-StarsThree of the most esteemed names in contemporary music will come together for a once-in-a-lifetime concert when Bang on a Can All-Stars welcome special guests Philip Glass and Terry Riley to Washington University’s Edison Theatre May 2.

Beginning July 1, the new prices will be in effect, and all payroll deduction amounts will be adjusted accordingly.

The network’s executive director says Khinduka was the obvious choice for the award, given his history at the University.

What are the origins of intolerance and prejudice? How are intolerance and prejudice similar, and how are they different? Are there certain people who are more intolerant or more prejudiced than others? How can the social problem of intolerance and prejudice be solved? These are among the questions to be addressed by a panel of […]

The title of her talk is “Bad Luck and Sadness Genes in Depression”; it begins at 9 a.m. April 6 in Clopton Auditorium.