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The Code of Conduct governs members of the university community: employees, volunteers and those who do business with the university. It states the ethical and legal standards that guide their decisions and actions as community members.

Three faculty recently received grants from the Children’s Discovery Institute to advance their research into childhood diseases.

Senior Wandalyn Savala leads a discussion of the play The Giver with sixth-grade students from KIPP Inspire Academy in south St. Louis Jan. 14 at the Danforth University Center. KIPP students were on campus to view a performance of The Giver at Edison Theatre that morning and stayed for lunch and an activity centered around the themes of the play.

Dorothy T. Rinderer, an administrative assistant for 40 years in the Dean’s Office at the School of Medicine, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, at Mary Queen and Mother Center in Shrewsbury, Mo. She was 88.

India Report
 Kidney gene linked to increased risk of heart failure
 01/19/2011 For the first time, scientists have discovered a key kidney DNA sequence variant that plays an important role in increasing the risk of heart failure. The DNA variant impairs channels that control kidney function, the researchers found. “It’s not a heart gene,” said […]

The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) has commissioned Kathleen Clark, JD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, to evaluate the extent of ethics restrictions on government contractor employees. An independent agency, ACUS functions as a government think tank and commissions legal experts to examine how federal agencies can improve operations.

In architecture as in life, the devil is in the details. Few know this better than Edward Ford, an educator, architect and author whose two-volume The Details of Modern Architecture (1990 and 1996) provided the first comprehensive analysis of how detailing and construction techniques can distort, camouflage or enhance a building. On Jan. 24, Ford, the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ spring Public Lecture Series. 

Since its formation in 1978, Island Press has evolved from a traditional contract print shop — producing high quality editions in standard media and formats — into a uniquely collaborative and educational enterprise known for complex, large-scale works by a range of nationally and internationally renowned artists. In January, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will explore that evolution with Island Press: Three Decades of Printmaking. Curated by Karen K. Butler, assistant curator of the Kemper Art Museum, the exhibition will survey more than two dozen works highlighting the press’ history of technical innovation, artistic experimentation and student participation.

The Wall Street Journal
 Apple’s Jobs to take medical leave
 01/17/2011 Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said he is taking another medical leave. William Chapman, transplantation chief at Washington University in St. Louis, hasn’t examined Mr. Jobs personally, but said it’s possible that his neuroendocrine tumor has metastasized again. “It’s really difficult to cure the […]

Who knew? The chance discovery that spikes in seismometer noise recorded in Africa corresponded with soccer matches has led to the discovery that there’s a lot more buried in the noise, including a signal from the famous storms of the Southern Atlantic Ocean, the bane of ships of sail.