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The Family Learning Center building has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The Family Learning Center building, designed by Ross Barney Architects, features energy-efficient equipment and lighting; lighting controls; a thermally efficient building envelope; regional, recycled and rapidly renewable materials; and native and adapted planting.

In the Jan. 14 issue of Science, Washington University in St. Louis biologist Sarah C.R. Elgin, PhD, and 12 other biomedical research scientists recommend seven steps that universities can take to support the teacher-scientist, ranging in difficulty from educating faculty about research on learning or creating teaching discussion groups to creating (monetary) awards and named professorships for outstanding teachers and requiring excellence in teaching for promotion.

Laura Rosenbury, JD, associate dean for research and faculty development and professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), a national independent organization that focuses on producing scholarly work to clarify and modernize the law. Membership in the ALI is based on professional achievement and a demonstrated interest in improving the law.

Art historian Richard Meyer, associate professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (2002), will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Multiple Feminisms Lecture Series Feb. 2. Designed to expand the conversation about what it means to be feminist, the series will investigate the ongoing cultural debate over sexuality and gender, as well as the effects of that debate on modern art, visual culture and academic practice.

The severe winter storm that moved through the St. Louis region closed all Washington University campuses except for the School of Medicine from 3 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31 through 10 a.m Wednesday, Feb. 2.

Students from the WUSTL chapter of Relay For Life, the signature fundraiser of the American Cancer Society, will be hosting a survivor and caregiver social at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, in McMillan Café. This year’s Relay For Life event will be held from 6 p.m. March 5 to 6 a.m. March 6 at Francis Field.

The Longer Life Foundation is encouraging inquiries from scientists seeking funding for research into long-term prognoses for common disorders and diseases.

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 01/29/2011 Pain is as much a part of pro football as football helmets. That’s according to a groundbreaking study commissioned by ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” and the National Institute on Drug Abuse and conducted by at the Washington University School of Medicine. Researchers surveyed 644 former NFL players about their health, pain levels, […]

Sports updates for week of Jan. 31, 2011.

The student group that invited Bristol Palin to come to Washington University in St. Louis has mutually agreed with her not to proceed with a contract regarding Palin’s participation in a panel discussion at Washington University on Feb. 7.