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Washington University in St. Louis would like to alert audiences that traffic around the university will be very heavy the morning of Friday, May 21, due to the university’s annual Commencement ceremony.

An index of news coverage related to Washington University’s 149th Commencement

A nationwide study has confirmed the benefit of giving estrogen-lowering drugs before surgery to breast cancer patients. The treatment increased the likelihood that women could undergo breast-conservation surgery, also called lumpectomy, instead of mastectomy.

Washington University’s 149th Commencement will be held at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 21, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university will award 2,809 degrees to 2,706 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on five individuals. Steven Chu, PhD., U.S. secretary of energy, will deliver the 2010 Commencement address. During the ceremony, Chu also will receive an honorary doctor of science degree. WUSTL’s four other honorary degree recipients are Brian J. Druker, MD, Joanne Knight, Richard A. Roloff and Strobe Talbott.

Nelson S. “Strobe” Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and former deputy secretary of state from 1995-2001, delivered the keynote address during the Washington University School of Law diploma ceremony on Friday, May 21, in Mudd Field.

Three WUSTL students have been awarded a State Department Critical Language Scholarship to study critical needs languages abroad this summer.

Homeland security and other regulatory agencies are creating jobs and a record-breaking budget according to a new study from the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis and the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.  A Decade of Growth in the Regulators’ Budget: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 details the rise in regulatory spending and who gets the lion’s share of this year’s $59 billion federal regulatory budget.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a parasite protein that has all the makings of a microbial glass jaw: it’s essential, it’s vulnerable and humans have nothing like it, meaning scientists can take pharmacological swings at it with minimal fear of collateral damage.

For students of the Class of 2010, one journey ends, and another begins. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will confer degrees at the 149th Commencement ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 21, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

Sadena Thevarajah feels that the best way to address health-care inequality is to become an attorney. Another step toward that journey will be complete May 21 when Thevarajah, the Record‘s 2010 Outstanding Graduate in the School of Law, receives her juris doctorate from WUSTL.