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WUSTL sports updates for the week of Oct. 4, 2010

Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall, the second building in a new engineering complex at Washington University in St. Louis, was dedicated in a ceremony held on Friday, Oct. 1. Brauer Hall includes state-of-the-art laboratories, a distance-learning classroom, instrumentation and imaging facilities, and electronically equipped collaboration points in the halls near the labs. The three-story building, which includes many other innovative features, has received LEED Gold certification.

Washington University neurosurgeons used a new tool last month for the treatment of brain tumors that were previously deemed inoperable.

Jon Meacham, former editor of Newsweek, will present “God and Politics: From George Washington to Barack Obama” at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, in Graham Chapel on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis with a book signing and reception to follow.

A genetic condition that increases risk of brain tumors may also impair development of the brain system that facilitates attention, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

An entrepreneur who has helped thousands of people in poverty-stricken countries throughout Africa says she couldn’t have done it without the help of students and professors at Washington University. The Blessing Basket Project bestows its annual World Changer award on WUSTL. Video history and thank you from artisans in Africa included.

Brazilian conceptual artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates playful, ephemeral and often participatory artworks that blur distinctions between author and viewer, object and memory, permanence and temporality. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other, the artist’s first major midcareer survey. Covering a decade of work, the exhibition reveals a wide-ranging interdisciplinary practice that merges painting, photography, film, sculpture, installation and collaborative action.

The Washington University in St. Louis Department of Athletics launched its new website Friday, Oct. 1. The website address will remain the same as the old site, bearsports.wustl.edu.

WHAT: Today, the Washington University military care package group will surpass 5 tons of total donated goods mailed to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the group formed in March 2004. Boxes containing the fifth ton will be packed at WUSTL today by group members and members of local ROTC programs. WHO: The WUSTL military […]

Of note Joseph Batchelor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Drew Etheridge, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Andrew Kau, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology & Immunology; Michael Mahowald, MD, PhD, of the Department of Genetics; and Eric Tomko, PhD, of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; have been named […]