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The Department of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will celebrate its 100th anniversary Thursday, Oct. 21, with a symposium from noon to 5 p.m. in the Moore Auditorium. Six of the department’s former heads, faculty or alumni have won Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine.

Ready, aim your smartphone and read! The new issue of Olin Business magazine is sporting a high tech code on its cover that lets readers connect immediately to the school’s website.  Innovation and creative thinking are themes in the magazine as well as daily activities at Washington University’s top ranked business school.

The Weston Career Center at Olin Business School is not sitting on the sideline, waiting for the economy to recover, campus recruiting to pick up and unemployment to drop. Instead, the career center team has gone on the offensive to help students find jobs in non-traditional markets and help them learn how to market themselves and network in new ways. 

The four newest members of the faculty fellows program have settled into their apartements in the South 40. The goal of the program, started in 1998, is to help integrate academic and residential life by having professors live in the residential colleges with students for three-year stints.

Poet Timothy Donnelly will ready from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, for Washington University’s Writing Program in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences. Donnelly’s first book, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensziet, was published in 2003 by the Grove Press Poetry Series. His second collection, The Cloud Corporation, was released by Wave Books earlier this month.  

Architect Eric Cesal, a Washington University alumnus who is now directing design and reconstruction initiatives in Haiti for the group Architecture for Humanity, will return to campus to discuss his work at noon Wednesday, Oct. 20. The talk, titled Starting From Zero: How Haiti Can Save Architecture, is presented by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts as its annual Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture, part of the school’s fall Public Lecture Series.  

Washington University School of Medicine’s Ryan White Part C/D program, the largest provider of services for children, youth and adults living with HIV in the region, received a visit Oct. 14 from Mary Wakefield, PhD, administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Discovery News Neanderthal children were large, sturdy 10/19/2010 Newly identified remains of a Neanderthal infant are the youngest ever found in northwest Europe. WUSTL physical anthropology professor Erik Trinkaus, a leading expert on Neanderthals, said the new study presents “well-reasoned and reasonable” conclusions. “We are limited in the numbers of fossils we have, and this […]

Emily Jungheim, MD, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is studying how insurance coverage and mandates influence ART practice patterns and outcomes.

Greece is experiencing a financial and social crisis of epic proportions. The newest Nobel laureate in economics and a colleague at Washington University in St. Louis co-founded a blog to share ideas to rescue Greece’s economy. They’ve published a plan to overhaul Greek government and society. Will these economists become modern day Greek heros and save the country where Aristotle first pondered economics?