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Herman Hertzberger, once described by sociologist Abram de Swaan as today’s preeminent “sociological” architect, will present the Sam Fox School’s annual Fumihiko Maki Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10. The founder and principal of Architectuurstudio HH in Amsterdam, Hertzberger is known for cultural, educational and residential projects throughout The Netherlands and abroad. 

Acclaimed actress and human rights advocate Mia Farrow will appear on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, in Graham Chapel for the Assembly Series. Farrow’s talk, the annual Elliot Stein Lecture in Ethics, will center on the need for universal human rights and justice and is free and open to the public. 

New York Times Banning the bottle 11/05/2010 Beginning this fall, a number of colleges and universities will institute a campus-wide ban on selling bottled water, reports the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. According to the Earth Policy Institute, 86 percent of plastic water bottles in the United States end up as […]

Volleyball coach Rich Luenemann stands among his team after his players defeated Brandeis University Nov. 5 and gave their coach the honor of becoming just the fifth person in NCAA history to reach 1,000 career volleyball victories.

Sports updates for the week of Nov. 8, 2010.

Adam Kibel has been named the Holekamp Family Chair in Urology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine. The endowed chair was established by Bill and Kerry Holekamp and the Holekamp Family Foundation through the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation.

Art historian Monica Amor will discuss “Affect and the Participatory Dimension of Brazilian Neoconcretism: 1959-1964” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. Part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series, the talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. 

Standard and Poor’s recently released study on “Global Aging 2010: An Irreversible Truth” calls for the raising of the retirement age and says that age-related public spending is “unsustainable without policy change.” But Merton Bernstein, LLB, the Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, says raising the retirement age could be a costly mistake.

Kelly Anne Barnes, PhD, has received a one-year, $40,000 postdoctoral fellowship grant from the Tourette Syndrome Association for research titled “Cortico-Striatal Functional Connectivity in Children and Adolescents With Tourette Syndrome: A Resting-State Functional Connectivity MRI Study.” She will conduct research under the mentorship of Bradley L. Schlaggar, MD, PhD, the A. Ernest and Jane G. […]

Medical Daily US team finds gene linked to deadly eye disease 11/05/2010 Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis have discovered a gene linked to the spread of eye melanoma that could throw insight on how tumors spread. “Scientists and physicians have been waiting for a rational, therapeutic target that we […]