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Photo by Mary ButkusMore than 1,000 WUSTL freshmen started the academic year giving back to their new community — like this group at Dewey Elementary in St. Louis — volunteering to help clean and paint 12 St. Louis-area schools as part of the 11th annual Service First event Sept. 5.

Photo by David KilperRoberto Jaime Deseda (left), a student in the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, chats with Leslie J. Laskey, professor emeritus of architecture, while two students relax in the “Laskey Landscape,” a large construction made of wood and metal located in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Dula Foundation Central Courtyard.

Photo by David KilperMatthew W. Kreuter, Ph.D., founder and director of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s Health Communication Research Laboratory, brings health information to key communities.

The Assembly Series pro-gram featuring actor Zach Braff has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 12 in Graham Chapel.

Breaking the cycle of violence in young families and youth transitioning to adulthood is the focus of the new Center for Violence and Injury Prevention at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

Photo by Bill StoverLutz Koepnick, Ph.D., professor of German in Arts & Sciences, and Jana Harper, senior lecturer in book arts in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, are the newest members of the faculty fellows program in the South 40.

School of Medicine scientists have helped a team identify two more genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease.

Low levels of vitamin D are known to nearly double the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes, School of Medicine researchers learned.

Twenty-four research groups have received funding through a jointly funded Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program.

Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., has been named the Conan Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine.