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Morehouse College Glee Club performance
Sponsored by the Danforth Campus Martin Luther King Commemoration Committee, proceeds from the concert will provide book scholarships to St. Louis-area freshmen entering Morehouse.
Area autism prevalence higher in boys than girls, study finds
A School of Medicine group used birth data to analyze autism prevalence among children in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Survival rate for pancreatic cancer is improving
The survival rate for pancreatic cancer patients use to be less than a year, but advances in surgical techniques and follow-up treatment have improved the rate for many according to William Hawkins and Steven Stasberg. Both are doctors at the School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center.
Jeff Pike named first Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr., Professor of Art
Jeff PikeJeff Pike, dean of the College of Art and the Graduate School of Art, has been named the first Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr., Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, according to dean Carmon Colangelo, the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration in the Arts. The professorship was made possible by a gift from Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr., both of whom hold degrees in art from Washington University. A formal installation ceremony took place Feb. 27.
Older men needed for study to improve health
A School of Medicine study will look at the effects of combining exercise training with hormone therapy to improve physical function in older men.
On the right foot
Photo by Ray MarklinPhysical therapy students offered foot and posture screenings to undergraduates at a health fair Feb. 13 in Friedman Lounge.
Times’ Supreme Court correspondent to speak
Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, will deliver the School of Law’s 2007 Tyrrell Williams Lecture on “The New Supreme Court: Continuity and Change” at 4 p.m. March 7 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Origins of life might be found on Europa
Europa, an intriguing moon of Jupiter, could be key in the mystery of the origins of life, said William B. McKinnon, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences.
Two Jewish conferences come to campus
This month, WUSTL will host the national leadership training seminar for Kesher, the campus program of the Union for Reform Judaism, as well as the national convention for the National Union of Jewish LGBTIQQ Students, a group which seeks to “empower our communities and ourselves through education, support and outreach.”