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The estimates of the population without health insurance in the U.S. remained unchanged in 2010, as compared to 2009, reflecting the counteracting effects of not only the sluggish economic recovery but also the preliminary benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), says Timothy McBride, PhD, leading health economist and associate dean of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

The women’s soccer team won the WUSTL Classic over the weekend with victories over DePauw University 3-2 and and Rhodes College 1-0. The shutout against Rhodes was the third shutout of the season for coach Jim Conlon’s team. Updates also included on football, volleyball and men’s soccer.

The Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) recently named Ronald Levin, JD, the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, the 2011 Volunteer of the Year. Levin has served as the section’s chair and as the ABA’s adviser to the drafting committee to revise the Model State Administrative Procedure Act.

Among the many events being offered at WUSTL to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States is an Assembly Series panel discussion. “Navigating a Post 9/11 World: A Decade of Lessons Learned” will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15,  in Whitaker Hall Auditorium.

MBA students Nader Ben Younes (left) and Dieu Nguyen look at the “Inspire” board at the “Share at the Stairs” exhibit in Simon Hall. The display, located near the main staircase in Simon Hall, is designed to bring to life Olin Business School’s mission of “Create Knowledge, Inspire Individuals and Transform Business.”

Environmental designer Mitchell Joachim — one of Rolling Stone magazine’s “100 People Who Are Changing America” — and Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney will join Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, as jurors for Sukkah City STL, a design competition that reimagines traditional Jewish Sukkahs through the lens of contemporary art and architecture. Rounding out the jury will be Hyim Shafner, former Chief Rabbi of India; Nancy Berg, PhD, professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature; and Bruce Lindsey, dean of architecture.

The Assembly Series opens at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, in College Hall on the South 40 campus with Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, this year’s selection of WUSTL’s First Year Reading Program. The Canadian author’s third novel is based on a real event that occurred in the beseiged eastern European city […]

Compression. Suspension. Torsion. Failure. The language of dance finds surprising echoes in the language of engineering. This fall, Lucy Guerin Inc., one of Australia’s premiere young dance companies, will launch the Edison Ovation Series with Structure and Sadness, an award-winning, evening-length work inspired by the 1970 collapse of Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge.  

Luis A. Sanchez, MD, has been named the inaugural Gregorio A. Sicard Distinguished Professor of Vascular Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Sanchez, the recently named chief of the section of vascular surgery at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, is highly regarded for his expertise in vascular and endovascular surgery.

The Washington University in St. Louis community will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with several university-wide events, including a student-organized memorial service, a panel discussion launching a cultural archives project and a discussion addressing the conflict between national security and civil liberties since 9/11.