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Starbucks is dropping its name and the word “coffee” from its logo, leaving the curvy siren as the lone symbol of the Seattle-based company that started the gourmet joe revolution 40 years ago. It’s a natural evolution, say marketing experts at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, but not one without risk.

The record-breaking $380 million Mega Millions multistate lottery jackpot drawing this week had two winners and may inspire more people to take a chance on being a millionaire. But Romel Mostafa, visiting professor of strategy at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, cautions lottery players on the odds of winning in an interview with NPR’s Michel Martin, broadcast Jan. 4.

Of note Peter Benson, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received the 2010 Outstanding Transdisciplinary Scholar Award from the Institute of Public Health. … Michael Gross, PhD, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “High Energy Collisional […]

National Law Journal AALS defeats bid to boycott hotels engaged in labor disputes 1/7/2011 Labor strife among hotel workers in San Francisco has created some headaches for the more than 3,000 legal educators attending the 2011 annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, but the organization has declined to adopt a resolution directing […]

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly through April 18 on Washington University’s Danforth Campus. The series begins Monday, Jan. 24, with a lecture by Juan Pantano, PhD, assistant professor of economics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, on “C-Sections and Fertility.”

Washington University physicians at Barnes-Jewish Hospital are in the top 5 percent nationally in the speed in which they treat heart attacks, says Douglas Char, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine. 

The Gephardt Institute for Public Service is accepting nominations for the newly developed Civic Scholars Program, which recognizes undergraduate students who exemplify future potential for civic leadership. To nominate a current sophomore, send a brief letter of one-to-three paragraphs on why the student is a good fit for the program to gephardtinstitute@wustl.edu by Tuesday, Feb. 1.

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 Wind farms drawing noise complaints, opposition 01/06/2011 How and at what distances sound from these giant wind power turbines affects human beings has triggered a brush war in the search for renewable energy. Leading research in this area is Alec Salt of Washington University in St. Louis, who’s been experimenting with the hearing of […]

Changing words in Mark Twain’s classic book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is fine as long as the original version still is easily available for readers, says Gerald L. Early, PhD. “We change texts all the time,” Early says. “For instance, we make children’s versions of the Bible, Homer and Shakespeare.”

One of the most celebrated American painters of her generation, Elizabeth Peyton is among today’s foremost contemporary figurative artists and a renowned chronicler of modern life. Her subjects include personal friends and heroes as well as visual artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe, and historical and cultural figures ranging from William Shakespeare and Richard Wagner to Eminem and Chloe Sevigny. In January, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton, the most extensive critical survey of Peyton’s work as a printmaker to date.