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The No. 17 Washington University in St. Louis men’s basketball team will host No. 10 Illinois Wesleyan University in the second round of the 2013 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship Saturday, March 9, at the Field House. Game time is 7 p.m.

The campaign video for Washington University’s “Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University” has won a Platinum Best of Show award at the Fall 2012 Aurora Awards competition in the fund raising category.

Marvin Jay Cummins, PhD, a longtime member of the Washington University Arts & Sciences faculty in sociology and political science, died Friday, March 1, 2013. He was 77.​

Due to Shriners Hospital construction, some changes have been made regarding Washington University Medical Center’s purple, green and red shuttles.

Douglas Berg, PhD, soon-to-be professor emeritus of molecular microbiology, establishes collaborations across disciplines.

The St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE) will have its inaugural meeting March 21 in the hearth area on the second floor of the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. A networking reception will be held from 5:30 to 6 p.m, and the meeting from 6-7 p.m. The meeting is […]

In his first two books, Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, Ariely shows how we often fail to act in our own best interests. With his third book, The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – especially Ourselves, Ariely examines dishonesty in American culture and has some surprising findings to share at an Assembly Series presentation at 2 p.m. Wed., March 6 in Graham Chapel.

Washington University will test its emergency siren systems at 11 a.m. Monday, March 4 and again at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5. The tests will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time. The March 5 drill at 1:30 p.m. will test the university’s emergency sirens as part of a Missouri statewide tornado drill. WUSTL’s warning sirens are located on Brookings Hall, Seigle Hall and Nemerov House.

Peter G. Sortino, WUSTL assistant vice chancellor, is being inducted into the Missouri Recreation and Parks Hall of Fame. This year he is coordinating the effort to pass Proposition P to fund improvements to area parks and the Arch grounds.

The 23rd annual Pow Wow, a festival of American Indian cultures, will be held Saturday, March 16, in the Field House on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis. This event, hosted by the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the Brown School, is free and open to the public. This year’s theme is “Honoring Our Cultures While Strengthening Our Communities.”