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The Washington University Crew Club will host free “learn to row” classes on May 14 and 21, both Saturdays, at Creve Coeur Lake.

Catherine Keane, associate professor and director of graduate studies of classics in Arts & Sciences, recently presented a discussion, “The Frank, the Friendly, and the Fictional: Speech in the Fragments of Lucilius’ Satires” at Williams College in Massachusetts.

Mokhtar H. Gado, MD, professor emeritus and for decades a leading researcher at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the School of Medicine, died of colon cancer April 28, 2016, in St. Louis. He was 84. He was noted for his work with neurological diseases and research involving brain and spine imaging.

Monica McDonald, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, is a finalist in a 2016 student competition sponsored by the International Primatological Society and the American Society of Primatologists.

Which university building, whose cornerstone was laid in May 1901, is named after a businessman who helped open a preparatory school for the university?

Lori White, vice chancellor for student affairs and the newly installed board chair of NASPA, speaks frankly about the challenges facing today’s universities, her goals to improve access and the graduate-student experience at Washington University, and what it will be like to work with her husband, incoming associate provost Anthony Tillman.

The “Eyes on the Prize” series on the civil rights movement will be rebroadcast by the Nine Network this weekend. A follow-up documentary features previously unaired materials from University Libraries’ Henry Hampton Collection and airs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 6.

Kosi Onyeneho and Natalia Guzman Solano, both graduate students in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, have been selected as digital editorial fellows for the Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Fair Saint Louis​ will held in Forest Park July 2-4 for the third year in a row. In the spirit of community partnership, and given the proximity of the park to campus, Washington University has once again agreed to sponsor Fair Saint Louis by providing access to several campus parking areas during the fair, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 1.

Sarah Gehlert, E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity at the Brown School, has been named to the steering committee of the California Breast Cancer Research Program.