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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.

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.

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 […]

With the time change this weekend — daylight savings time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, and the clock “falls back” one hour — it will get dark earlier in the evening. The Washington University Police Department offers some safety reminders as part of the “Don’t be in the Dark” campaign.