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The Alumni Association will commemorate the institution’s founding at the annual Founders Day celebration Saturday, Nov. 6. Historian David McCullough will deliver the keynote address. The event also honors faculty and alumni who have made significant contributions to WUSTL. In this third of a three-part series on Founders Day, the six recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Awards are highlighted.

Lighting designer Ruth Grauert, who spent 40 years as assistant and stage director to legendary choreographer Alwin Nikolais (1910-93), will discuss “The Path to Post-Modern Dance and the Nikolais Aesthetic” at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3. The talk will explore the evolution of dance since the 1940s, as choreographers increasingly moved away from technique-centered to idea-centered works. 

Marco Colonna, MD, professor of pathology and immunology, has received a five-year, $1,824,000 grant from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research for research titled “The Role of NK-22 Cells in Anti-HIV-1 Mucosal Immunity.” … Deanna Jacquelyn Greene, PhD, has received a one-year, $40,000 postdoctoral fellowship grant from the Tourette Syndrome Association for research […]

Washington University’s Alumni Association will commemorate the institution’s founding at the annual Founders Day celebration Saturday, Nov. 6, at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott. David McCullough, acclaimed historian and award-winning author, will deliver the keynote address. The event also honors faculty and alumni who have made a significant contribution to the university, including Distinguished Faculty Awards to four faculty members.

Halloween candy is a treat for many children, but for those forced to work on cocoa farms in west Africa it’s a mean and tortuous trick. Two WUSTL professors call attention to the hidden horrors of cocoa production — the base ingredient in chocolate — in an op-ed piece published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Stephen Fawley, a senior in biology in Arts & Sciences, explains his research project “Using Estradiol-Inducible Promoters To Determine the Role of Auxin in Plant Defense During Pseudomonas Syringae Infection” to senior biology majors Hao Yang and Perry Morocco during the fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct. 23 in Olin Library.

Mott T. Greene, PhD, the John B. Magee Professor of Science and Values at the University of Puget Sound, will present, “Alfred Wegener and the Origins of Modern Earth Science in the Theory of Continental Drift” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, in McMillan Hall, Room 149.

The School of Medicine is kicking off its annual Adopt-A-Family program for families in need who live in the Forest Park Southeast and Botanical Heights neighborhoods.

Jack H. Ladenson, PhD, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. Ladenson, the Oree M. Carroll and Lillian B. Ladenson Professor of Clinical Chemistry in Pathology and Immunology and professor of clinical chemistry in medicine, will be presented with the award at the annual Faculty Achievement Awards program in December.

reuters.com Metal pollution tied to Parkinson’s disease 10/27/2010 People living near a steel factory or another source of high manganese emissions are at higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, suggests a new study by WUSTL School of Medicine researcher Dr. Brad A. Racette. “Environmental risk factors for Parkinson’s disease have been relatively under-studied, especially in […]