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The commission is accepting submissions of art for the exhibit at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center security desk. All students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the school are invited to participate.

A vaginal gel that affords both contraception and HIV protection using nanoparticles that carry bee venom is one of the bold, unconventional ideas that won a 2010 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Gates Foundation.

Actress Marlo Thomas talks with Richard Wilson, PhD, director of The Genome Center, Oct. 28 in The Genome Center at the School of Medicine. The Genome Center is partnering with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis on the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project.

Washington University School of Medicine has partnered with Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital to open the first bariatric surgery program in the area for obese adolescents. The rate of obesity among teens has more than tripled in the past 30 years. Today, 18 percent are obese, which increases their risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and dying young.

Timothy Barrett, an internationally recognized papermaker, conservator and educator, will discuss “14th- to 19th-Century Handmade Papers: Recent Aesthetic and Scientific Investigations” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at Steinberg Hall Auditorium. Historical and contemporary paper specimens and artists’ books also will be on display at Steinberg.

To celebrate his 90th birthday, Douglass C. North, PhD (left), the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, welcomed colleagues and friends such as Elinor Ostrom, PhD, to a two-day conference honoring his legacy in the field of institutional economics Nov. 5-6. North received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993 for his pioneering work which integrates the role of institutions, social and cognitive sciences to study how societies and their economies evolve. Watch video tribute to North from friends and colleagues.

Will Ross, MD, professor of medicine and associate dean for diversity, gets congratulations for receiving the Humanism in Medicine nomination from (from left) Elaine Khoong, Ryan Anderson and David Levine at the Distinguished Service Teaching Awards Oct. 28 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. Ross was named the School of Medicine’s nominee for the national Humanism in Medicine award presented annually by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

To ensure broad communication, certain key university policies are published on an annual basis in a special policy section of the Record. All members of the university community are essential to the continued endeavor for excellence in WUSTL’s teaching, research, service and patient-care missions. Establishing and sustaining an open, positive working and learning environment for faculty, staff and students is a shared responsibility.

At recent Board of Trustees meetings, Washington University faculty members were promoted with tenure or appointed with tenure effective July 1, 2010, unless otherwise noted.

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis will host a panel discussion on the role religion played in the 2010 midterm elections. The discussion, which features three prominent scholars of religion, will take place at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, in the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center, Room 200.