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Reviewing the research  Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton listens to senior Sarah Swinford speak about her internship with the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University during the fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct. 13 in the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Sciences Building. New $10 million MacArthur project integrates law and neuroscience The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is bringing together a distinguished group of scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers from across the country to help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system. Founders Day to honor faculty, alumni Nov. 3 This year Founders Day attendees will get a two-for-one bonus when the powerful political couple Mary Matalin and James Carville deliver the keynote address. Matalin and Carville, top political strategists for the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively, and married since 1993, will appear at the Alumni Association's annual gathering to commemorate the founding of Washington University at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at the America's Center in downtown St. Louis. Engineering students get hands-on experience in creating medical devices This summer, Frank C.P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, led nine biomedical engineering students through a two-week international experience in China. New school in Andhra Pradesh provides teaching and research opportunities Six WUSTL undergraduate students spent this past summer in the village of Andhra Pradesh, India, teaching English to high school students and conducting research projects. The trip, led by Glenn Stone, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and of environmental studies, both in Arts & Sciences, was the first for a WUSTL group. United Way campaign under way There still is time to help the United Way of Greater St. Louis assist those that need it most. WUSTL continues to accept donations to the annual United Way of Greater St. Louis campaign, which began Sept. 4. The University's goal for this year's drive is $555,000, and those who have not yet donated are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. University recognized by environmental collaborative WUSTL's efforts to create a more sustainable campus were recognized earlier this month when the University was named one of 15 new "Blue Skyways Partners" by the Blue Skyways Collaborative, a collection of public and private entities working to reduce diesel and energy-related air emissions in the central United States. Cooking accident damages Wohl Center Shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, a cooking accident damaged five large windows in the South 40's Wohl Center, on the northwest corner of the second floor. The incident was caused by a portable tabletop stove that malfunctioned when a butane fuel canister sprang a leak. | |
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