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Associated Press Contraception could be free under health care law 11/01/2010 Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law. But first, look for a fight over social mores, suggests the Associated Press in a story […]

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.

The annual health open enrollment period for the health/dental or dental-only plans, the health- and child-care flex spending plans, the Health Savings Account and the Retirement Medical Savings Account will be from Nov. 1-30. Enrollments and changes to these plans made during the open enrollment period and before the Nov. 30 deadline will be effective Jan. 1, 2011, for calendar year 2011.

Errol Sandler, PhD (right), associate dean of the Sever Institute of Continuing Studies in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, leads a group of riders from the Danforth Campus on a bike ride through Forest Park Oct. 20 during Campus Sustainability Day. The ride was held to raise awareness of alternate forms of transportation.

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. This is the second of a three-part series profiling the recipients of this year’s Founders Day awards. Carol B. Loeb, and the husband and wife couple Arthur and Marge McWilliams, are this year’s recipients of the Robert S. Brookings Award. 

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.