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Toronto Star Think stilettos are hazardous? Check out these heels 9/10/2010 ‘On a Pedestal,’ an exhibit currently showing at Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum, examines two of the most extreme forms of Western footwear, the 16th century chopine and its successor, the high heel. No sensible shoes here. The more impractical, the sexier. Both the chopine […]

The Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Foundation’s 15th Annual Patient and Family conference will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. The event will bring together specialists to provide education and support for adult and pediatric patients with HHT and their families.

Sports updates for the week of Sept. 13, 2010.

Of note Marco Colonna, MD, professor of pathology and immunology and of medicine, has received a three-year, $495,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, for research titled “The Role of Viral Sensors in Type I Diabetes.” … The Corner Building on Skinker and Delmar boulevards has been awarded the 2010 Regional Excellence Award […]

Calling all entrepreneurs! WUSTL’s two annual business plan competitions are ready to get underway. The kick off event for commercial and nonprofit business plans takes place September 16 in conjunction with an Assembly Series speaker, Matthew Bishop who will talk about capitalism and philanthropy.

Psychology Today Will increasing the number of US medical students translate into more practitioners? 9/9/2010 Recently, there has been movement towards substantial growth in the number of medical schools and in the number of medical students training in the US. About 15-18 new schools may be added to the 131 current schools. Also, medical schools […]

The Edison will launch its 2010-11 Ovations Series with Of Bodies of Elements, a new evening-length concert by Dancing Earth, the premier indigenous contemporary dance ensemble working today. Led by choreographer Rulan Tangen, this acclaimed troupe is poised at the intersection of ritual, culture and ecology, employing Native American traditions and perspectives to explore contemporary — particularly environmental — issues and concerns.  

Students with good ideas for saving energy have until Sept.r 19 to shoot a three-minute video promoting their idea and to post the video on a contest site. The prize for winning is $5000 and travel assistance to St. Louis for the Global Energy Future Symposium in early October.

Christopher Field, PhD, one of the leaders of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis as an I-CARES Distinguished Speaker at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in Graham Chapel. Field and a team of scientists have calculated how fast temperature zones are likely to move across the planet in the future and whether plants and animals will be able to migrate fast enough to stay ahead of the heat.

Five minutes in a scanner can reveal how far a child’s brain has come along the path from childhood to maturity and potentially shed light on a range of psychological and developmental disorders, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown.