SearchPast Issues March 26, 2007

Weather Forecast - See the 5-day forecast Calendar Highlights - See the full calendar Tuesday, March 27 • Baseball vs. Maryville U. Thursday, March 29 • Jazz at Holmes Friday, March 30 • "Goin' Pro" The Amateurs Coed A Cappella Group Performance • Track & Field Washington University Invitational • WUSTL Improv Festival Saturday, March 31 • Softball vs. Millikin U. Sunday, April 1 • Student Planner Cover Contest Deadline Campus Calendars - Academic calendar - Assembly Series - Graduate Professional Council calendar - 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 Caves threatened by County development A scholarly paper on the status of the 127 known caves in the 508-square-mile county shows developers are discarding the formations with impunity, says co-author Robert E. Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences. Social Work kicks off International Festival The George Warren Brown School of Social Work's 13th annual International Festival begins on March 28 with a forum called "Prospects and Challenges of Integrating Immigrants and Refugees into the St. Louis Community," from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge. How punk rock and leftover food can change the world Robert L.E. Egger, founder and president of the non-profit culinary arts job-training program D.C. Central Kitchen, will speak on "Using Punk Rock and Leftover Food to Change the World" at 4:30 p.m. March 27 in Room 132 of Goldfarb Hall. Romanzo criminale Film and Media Studies hosts Italian Film Festival The Film & Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences will premiere six recent features in the Italian Film Festival of St. Louis March 30 to April 14. WUSTL chosen to host science summer camp The University has been selected as one of 19 colleges and universities nationwide that will host the 2007 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp, sponsored by ExxonMobil Corp. and led by Bernard Harris, M.D., a former NASA astronaut and the first African-American to conduct a spacewalk. Tatom, assistant professor of architecture, dies at 51 Jacqueline Tatom, assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, died at her home in the Central West End Sunday, March 18, following a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 51. Announcements Grease fire in Millbrook Square apartments A grease fire broke out in an apartment kitchen in Millbrook Building Two on Saturday, March 24, forcing the evacuation of the building. The Clayton Fire Department coordinated the fire response, which included emergency crews and vehicles from six surrounding municipalities. Millbrook Two, which is part of the Millbrook Square Apartments located in the northwest corner of the Danforth Campus, houses 51 students. No students were injured, but some are still not able to return to their apartments and are being housed temporarily at the Knight Center on campus. Last blood drives of the academic year scheduled The last blood drives of the semester will be held March 26-29. Organizers urge everyone in the WUSTL community to participate and help make this the most successful drive of the year. I-64/US40 construction updated on Web The University has added a link to its Web page for easy access to the latest information on the Interstate 64/Highway 40 construction project. The Jewish World at Ground Zero David G. Roskies, expert in Jewish literature, will present "1943: The Jewish World at Ground Zero" at 8 p.m. March 29 in McDonnell Hall, Rm. 162. Washington People Being true to her school Julie Shimabukuro passes along her enthusiasm for WUSTL when recruiting international students Sports Weekend Bear Sports WUSTL in the News St. Louis Post-Dispatch WUSTL scientists decry decline in federal research funding The New York Times Daniel Coyne, kidney specialist at the School of Medicine, questions doctors' ties to drug makers.