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An unprecedented five-year, $30 million effort to generate a first-of-its-kind map of all the major circuits in the human brain is being led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Minnesota’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research.

Seasonal flu shots for School of Medicine employees will begin Sept. 20 at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital and are scheduled to be provided through Oct. 21 at the Washington University Medical Center. 

Tony Award-nominated actor Stephen McKinley Henderson will discuss his life and work as part of an informal, Inside the Actors Studio-style dialogue at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, in Edison Theatre. Titled “An Evening with Stephen McKinley Henderson,” the event is presented in conjunction with the symposium “Uncovering/Discovering The Other,” which runs through Friday.  

The French senate approved a law Sept. 14 banning any veils that cover the face, making France the first European country to nationally impose such a ban. A WUSTL anthropologist who has written extensively on this subject says that the French government is finding it easier to fight clothing than to fight poverty and violence.

BBC ‘One-off’ prostate cancer tests backed for 60-year-olds 9/14/2010 A single blood test for all 60-year-old men could pick out the vast majority of those likely to die from prostate cancer, suggests a new study in the British Medical Journal. Professor Gerard Andriole, from the Washington University School of Medicine, said that while the findings […]

The Washington University in St. Louis School of Law has announced that 22 recent graduates have secured judicial clerkships this year in 13 different states and the District of Columbia. Eighteen clerks are 2010 graduates and four are alumni. Despite a difficult job market, the total number of law school graduates securing clerkships rose by more than 40 percent over 2009.

The 2010 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education are now accepting nominations for this year’s awards. The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. Oct. 15.

Students who enter medical school with high-debt levels, low scores on the Medical College Admissions Test or who are non-white are more likely to face difficulties that may prevent graduation or hinder acceptance into a residency program if they do graduate, according to a nationwide study of students enrolled in MD programs.

Matthew Bishop, U.S. business editor and New York bureau chief of The Economist, will give a presentation on his book, Philanthrocapitalism, at 6 p.m. Thursday, September 16 in Simon Hall May Auditorium. The Assembly Series talk is free and open to the public. In this era of financial morass, is it odd that “mega-giving” is […]

chicagotribune.com Illinois SAT scores drop 09/13/2010 Overall, 8,508 Illinois high school graduates in 2010 took the SAT. The rival ACT college entrance exam is far more popular in Illinois, where high school juniors take it as part of state exams. Still, the SAT results shed light on the knowledge of top Illinois students competing for […]