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​​Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will host a half-day seminar on forms of dementia that strike suddenly and can kill an individual in a few weeks or months.​

In remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr., the Society of Black Student Social Workers (SBSSW) and the Office of Student Affairs at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis will host its annual Financial Freedom Seminar on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013.

Panos Kouvelis, PhD, senior associate dean and director of executive programs at Olin Business School and an expert in the field of supply chain management, has been named to the U.S. Commerce Department’s new Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness.

C. Robert Cloninger, MD, the Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received an honorary doctorate at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in a ceremony Oct. 17.

Helen E. Nash, MD, professor emerita (clinical) in pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Oct. 4, 2012, at Clermont Manor in Creve Coeur. She was 91.

Peter Nagele, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology, has received the 2012 Presidential Scholar Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The award, presented Oct. 15 at the society’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., is given each year to an anesthesiologist who has dedicated the formative years of his/her career to research.

The Community Service Office is holding a drive on behalf of the National Bone Marrow Registry at several locations on the Danforth Campus Wednesday, Oct. 17. The process only takes about 20 minutes and requires a cheek swab. The registry seeks to help people who need bone marrow transplants or are healing from leukemia and other life-threatening diseases.

Just two weeks before the presidential election, the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis puts the Affordable Care Act front and center with a policy forum on the signature legislation of Barack Obama’s presidency. “Affordable Care Act-the Evolution Continues” takes place at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in Brown Hall Lounge on the Danforth Campus. Keynoting Jay Angoff, senior advisor at the U. S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Angoff is an expert on insurance law and insurance-related issues at both the national and state levels.

The Gephardt Institute for Public Service invites WUSTL faculty to apply for grants to support their community-based teaching and learning (CBTL), also known as experiential education, engaged research and, most commonly, service learning. To support CBTL course development and implementation, the Institute awards up to five faculty grants of $2,500 each.

Two executives of a publicly traded venture capital firm that invests in nanotechnology companies will discuss “The Changing Face of Venture Capital and the Potential Impact to St. Louis” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Preston M. Green Hall Collaboration Space.