SearchPast Issues Announcements, Events & NewsOct. 23, 2006

Weather Forecast - See the 5-day forecast Calendar Monday, Oct. 23 • De-Stress Fest • Men's Soccer vs. Principia College Wednesday, Oct. 25 • Town Hall meeting on immigration Thursday, Oct. 26 • IdeaBounce student event Friday, Oct. 27 • Men's Soccer vs. Brandeis U. • Parents Weekend • Women's Soccer vs. Brandeis U. Saturday, Oct. 28 • Football vs. Carnegie Mellon U. Sunday, Oct. 29 • Men's Soccer vs. N.Y.U. • Women's Soccer vs. N.Y.U. Campus Calendars - Academic calendar - Assembly Series - Graduate Professional Council - Schools' calendars - Spark student calendar - University calendar The Record, a twice-weekly electronic newspaper for Washington University faculty, staff and students, is the official source for news and information of vital importance to all members of the campus community. Click below to contact us about: - Record staff - Comments, story ideas - Technical web/email issues - Unsubscribing Wong, Satrapi and Strogatz to speak at Assembly Series It's a busy week for the Assembly Series, with an actor, graphic novelist and mathmetician all scheduled to address the University community. Tony award winner B.D. Wong will give the talk "All the World's a Stage: From Exclusion to Inclusion" at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23, in Graham Chapel. Iranian-born graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi will discuss her work at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, in Graham Chapel. Cornell University mathematician Steven Strogatz will speak on "Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in Rebstock Hall, Room 215. English department to host memorial reading in honor of Charles Newman Oct. 26 The Department of English in Arts & Sciences will host a memorial reading in honor of Charles Newman, an acclaimed writer and longtime faculty member, who died last March at the age of 67. The event takes place at 8 p.m. Oct. 26 in Hurst Lounge. It will feature readings from Newman's work as well as reminiscences by friends and colleagues. Give Thanks Give Back Give Thanks Give Back is just getting started and there is plenty of time and plenty of ways to get involved. GTGB is WUSTL's annual holiday gift drive. It supports an organization called 100 Neediest Cases — a joint project of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the United Way — which runs a holiday gift-drive to benefit the poorest families in St. Louis. Safe Trick or Treat Haunting season is fast approaching, and soon the South 40 will be seeing little ghosts and princesses and superheroes bustling about. Oct. 28 is the date for the Campus Y's Safe Trick-or-Treat program, co-hosted by Congress of the South 40. Announcements Danforth Campus Flu Shots for students Beginning Nov. 1, flu shots will be available to WUSTL students and their partners / spouses covered by student health insurance. School of Medicine Flu Shots Beginning Nov. 2, free flu vaccinations will be provided to School of Medicine employees with a valid identification badge. Employees must present their badge to obtain the vaccination. Washington People Breaking ground in reproductive medicine Kelle Moley seeks the link between blood sugar levels and higher rates of miscarriage Sports Weekend Bear Sports - See latest updates WUSTL in the News The Wall Street Journal WUSTL economist Robert Pollak worked with this year's Nobel laureate in Economics on his prize-winning research. USA Today WUSTL political scientist Steven Smith comments on this fall's flood of campaign commercials on prime time television.