Newsroom Stories

Sports updates for week of Nov. 1, 2010.

It’s a madcap weekend of comic mayhem as Chicago sensations 500 Clown target a pair of literary classics with in-your-face improv, commedia dell’arte and physical theater. On Friday, Nov. 5, the company will descend upon Edison Theatre with 500 Clown Macbeth, a boisterous romp through William Shakespeare, followed on Saturday, Nov. 6, by 500 Clown Frankenstein, a similar affront to Mary Shelley. 

The Campus Store will give WUSTL faculty and staff members an opportunity to do some early holiday shopping. The store will hold its 13th annual Faculty/Staff Appreciation Event Tuesday, Nov. 9, and will offer a 30 percent discount to faculty and staff members from 3-8 p.m. 

High levels of manganese and copper pollution in urban areas are linked to increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to a large-scale analysis of urban pollution and Parkinson’s incidence in the United States. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that people living in areas with higher levels of manganese pollution had a 78 percent greater risk of Parkinson’s disease than those living in areas free of such pollution.

Women undergraduate and graduate students can discuss post-graduation choices and how to attain a successful, fulfilling life at “Composing a Life” Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. at the Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300. The discussion, hosted by the Women’s Society of Washington University, will feature five women with career experience in an array of fields, from engineering to business to nonprofit.

The WUSTL Police Department is teaming up with the Kurt Warner First Things First Foundation and Operation Food Search for the 10th annual Warners’ Warm-up winter-coat drive. Through Nov. 14, the WUSTL police station will serve as a drop-off location for students, faculty, staff and others to donate new or gently used winter coats.  

Some of the world’s leading social scientists will be on campus Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 4-6, as Washington University in St. Louis hosts an academic conference honoring the legacy of Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North, PhD. North, who celebrates his 90th birthday Friday, Nov. 5, is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences and co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

More than 100 junior faculty, fellows, residents and training program students presented results of summer research programs at a symposium and poster session Oct. 27 at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

More than 25 awards honoring scholarship, service and other achievements were given to School of Medicine students at an Oct. 29 luncheon, including the first Nathan Edward Hellman, MD, PhD, Memorial Award given to Ian C. Glenn (second from right).

Charles W. Burson, JD, senior professor of practice at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and former chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore, says that the midterm elections reflect a dramatic turn from the wave of aspiration that defined our politics in 2008 to the wave of grievance that defines these midterm elections. “The Tea Party movement is the embodiment of that phenomenon. In Missouri, this wave has put the seats of Democratic Congressmen Ike Skelton and Russ Carnahan at risk, but the same wave may have also put at risk the seat of Republican Representative Jo Ann Emerson.”