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Students react while watching the June 11 opening match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup between host nation South Africa and Mexico in the Fun Room of the Danforth University Center. Every game of the World Cup, which ends July 11, is being shown at the DUC.

Celebrated jazz pianist, composer and arranger Linda Presgrave and her quintet will launch “Jazz in July,” a series of free summer concerts presented by Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes, from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, July 8. Subsequent performances will feature guitarist Tom Byrne and his quartet (July 15), drummer Maurice Carnes and friends (July 22) and guitarist Chris Burchett and his quartet (July 29).

The first trial of a new model for testing Alzheimer’s treatments has reassured researchers that a promising class of drugs does not exacerbate the disease if treatment is interrupted.

Experts on volunteerism will come together for the International Volunteer Service Research and Policy Forum Wednesday, June 23, at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.

The Energy Awareness Committee (EAC) will host a bike ride June 24 and provide sustainability information at lunches in June and July on the Danforth Campus.

To complete a course in entrepreneurship, Olin Business School students traveled to Budapest, Hungary for some hands-on work with new ventures. Their consulting projects not only benefitted the eastern European entrepreneurs, but helped students gain a better understanding of the global marketplace and their career futures.

A reflecting pool and plaza with native landscaping will welcome visitors to the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and create an expansive and welcoming green space in the middle of Washington University Medical Center.

The BJC Institute of Health at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will be formally dedicated at a Collaboration Celebration June 16.

Of note Ann Gronowski, PhD, associate professor of pathology and immunology and of obstetrics and gynecology, was elected president of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry for 2011. She will serve as president-elect in 2010 and as past-president in 2012. … Ryan T. Moore, PhD, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has […]

Twenty-four research groups have received funding through a joint Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program offered by the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation (BJHF).