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October 2003
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Oct. 27,
2003 -- Adam Hochschild discusses Congo holocaust for Assembly Series
 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, sheds light on a little known tragedy of immense scale


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Oct. 27,
2003 -- There's no place like home
 St. Louis Native Paul Tietjens' 1902 The Wizard of Oz highlights concert Nov. 7


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Oct. 27,
2003 -- Wunderkind scientist at Assembly Series
 A New Kind of Science, a decade-long tome in the making, describes Wolfram's theory that the nature of complexity is actually simple


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Oct. 24,
2003 -- Crystallizing collaboration
 New biomedical engineering building dedicated


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Oct. 22,
2003 -- American Airlines STL hub reduction
 Weidenbaum Center hosts St. Louis Forum on future of airline industry, Oct. 31


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Oct. 21,
2003 -- Sesquicentennial environmental initiative
 ?Colloquium on Energy? lecture and panel discussion, Oct. 31


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Oct. 21,
2003 -- Fulbright award
 Legomsky receives Senior Specialists grant to Suriname


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Oct. 21,
2003 -- Around the world in eight days with WU Travel Lecture Series
 From magnificent Malaysia to mysterious Shangri-la, your trip around the world awaits you right here on the Washington University campus


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Oct. 17,
2003 -- Comedian, activist Dick Gregory at Assembly Series
 Dick Gregory to Deliver Black Arts and Sciences Festival lecture


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Oct. 17,
2003 -- Grocery strikes
 Disputes in Missouri, California and West Virginia may only be the beginning, says labor expert


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Oct. 14,
2003 -- Former NYT managing editor Gerald Boyd at Assembly Series
 Boyd to deliver address or journalism's challenges in memory of colleague Greg Freeman


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Oct. 14,
2003 -- Parent-child relationship study benefits from grant
 Pollak receives grant from MacArthur Foundation


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Oct. 8,
2003 -- Conversations About Poetry Oct. 15-17
 Critic Helen Vendler and poet Jorie Graham headline three-day event for Writing Program reading series


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Oct. 8,
2003 -- 2003-04 ovations! for young people series launches
 Bang! Scrap Arts Music at Edison Theatre Nov.1


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Oct. 8,
2003 -- La Bottine Souriante at Edison Theatre Nov. 15
 ?Best band in the world!? according to folk magazine Dirty Linen


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Oct. 8,
2003 -- 'Humanity's Genes'
 Nobel Prize recipient Sydney Brenner to discuss 'Humanity's Genes'


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Oct. 8,
2003 -- Harvard chaplain at Assembly Series
 Peter Gomes to deliver talk on 'The Good Life: Truths that Last in Times of Need' for Assembly Series


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Oct. 2,
2003 -- Neurons that play truth or consequences
 Study lifts veil on brain's executive function


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Oct. 1,
2003 -- Second Environmental Initiative lecture
 Lubchenco and Molina to speak at Assembly Series


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Oct. 1,
2003 -- "The Browning of America" at Assembly Series
 Richard Rodriguez, author of "Brown: The Last Discovery of America," will discuss racial and cultural assimilation in America for the Assembly Series


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Sept. 29,
2003 -- Green chemistry
 New center focuses on novel catalysts


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Sept. 29,
2003 -- An ancient art
 Master Japanese carpenter works with architecture students to create traditioal bench for Butterfly Garden; installation Oct. 11


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Sept. 29,
2003 -- Bryant and Carlin present Liederabend
 Department of Music's annual "evening of song" Oct. 5


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Sept. 29,
2003 -- Guys and Dolls at Edison Theatre
 PAD presents Broadway classic Oct. 10-12, 17-19


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Sept. 29,
2003 -- Lance Armstrong to visit Siteman Cancer Center on cross-country bike tour
 Tour of Hope visits Washington University


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Sept. 26,
2003 -- Olin moves up
 Forbes Magazine ranks M.B.A. program 12th best in U.S. in 'return-on-investment'


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Sept. 24,
2003 -- President Bush and the future of Iraq
 Professor Leila Sadat analyzes Bush?s address to the UN General Assembly on KWMU's St. Louis on the Air


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Sept. 23,
2003 -- Obituary
 Gloria White, vice chancellor emerita, dies


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- 'My, what big molars you have'
 Earliest modern humans in Europe found


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- An Evening with Charles Burns and Gary Panter Sept. 27
 Avant garde comic book artists speak as part of St. Louis Comic Art Show


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- Expressionist Architecture
 Iain Boyd Whyte to discuss work of Bruno Taut Oct. 2


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- Othello at Edison Theatre Nov. 2
 Aquila Theatre launches 31st OVATIONS! Series with Shakespeare in American Communities


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- Typographically Speaking opens Oct. 10
 Exhibition examines work of Matthew Carter, among the 20th century's preeminent type designers


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- 'Walking the Poverty Line" with Barbara Ehrenreich
 Author of best-selling Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, explains what it's like to "Walk the Poverty Line'


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- C.D. Wright reads Oct. 2
 "One of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets" according to Publisher's Weekly


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- Former EPA chiefs at Assembly Series
 Former Environmental Protection Agency chiefs Carol Browner and William Reilly to present the first Sesquicentennial Environmental Initiative Lecture


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- Jazz at Holmes
 Series kicks off with three European combos Sept. 25 and Oct. 2


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Sept. 22,
2003 -- Terry Teachout to read Oct. 13-14
 Author of The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, presents two events for Center for the Humanities


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Sept. 19,
2003 -- Center for Materials Innovation
 New center brings many collaborators together


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Sept. 18,
2003 -- First class
 China's future business leaders are first to graduate from joint Executive MBA program at Olin School of Business


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Sept. 18,
2003 -- NYSE's Grasso resigns
 School of Law Dean Seligman interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition


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Sept. 17,
2003 -- Pharmaceutical study
 Business schools collaborate with FDA on drug manufacturing performance study


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Sept. 17,
2003 -- School of Social Work fall lecture series begins Sept. 24
 Dr. Amitai Etzioni and Sr. Mary Jean Ryan included on speakers list


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Sept. 17,
2003 -- International symposium on civic service at school of social work
 Father of communitarianism and social commentator Amitai Etzioni to give public address at 4 p.m. Sept. 24


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Sept. 15,
2003 -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 Washington U. throws party to mark 150 years


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Sept. 14,
2003 -- Guilty!
 150th Birthday Party closes with guilty verdict for Goldilocks


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Sept. 14,
2003 -- Happy birthday WUSTL
 150th birthday party kicks off with big cake


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Sept. 14,
2003 -- Birthday Party Photos -- Gallery 1
 Image gallery offers 'day in the life' of 150th Party


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Sept. 14,
2003 -- Birthday Party Photos -- Gallery 2
 Image gallery offers 'day in the life' of 150th Party


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Sept. 14,
2003 -- Birthday Party Photos -- Gallery 3
 Image gallery offers 'day in the life' of 150th Party


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Sept. 14,
2003 -- WUSTL, community, celebrate 150 years
 150? Cool. Top 10? Awesome!


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Sept. 14,
2003 -- Cooper, Isikoff and Madore comment on media relations with government
 Journalists back watchdog role despite 9-11


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Sept. 11,
2003 -- MEDIA ADVISORY: Washington University is throwing a birthday party
 The media are invited to cover this special event kicking off the university's 150th anniversary year


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Sept. 10,
2003 -- 125 years of Student Life
 Prominent Student Life alumni to return for reunion


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Sept. 10,
2003 -- Amy Bloom to read Sept. 18 and 25
 Author of NORMAL: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitude


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Sept. 10,
2003 -- Memorial gathering
 Campus community remembers 9-11


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Sept. 10,
2003 -- Former Fed chair at Assembly Series
 Paul Volcker, former head of Federal Reserve will present the Assembly Series lecture on Sept. 24


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Sept. 10,
2003 -- Richard Chapman nominated for Emmy Award for Live From Baghdad
 Film recieves total of 10 nominations; awards on FOX Sept. 21


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Sept. 8,
2003 -- New age of Chinese ceramics
 "Chinese Ceramics Today" at Des Lee Gallery Sept. 5-Sept. 30


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Sept. 5,
2003 -- Bond market
 St. Louis Fed's Poole speaks on bond market at Olin School of Business


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Sept. 4,
2003 -- Let the 'Conversations' begin
 International borders focus of first 'conversation' among top scholars


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Sept. 4,
2003 -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author at Assembly Series
 Thomas Friedman asks "What Kind of International Borders Will Exist in the 21st Century?" in lecture, Sept. 17


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Sept. 4,
2003 -- Making higher education more affordable, accessible
 Washington University among more than 200 private colleges offering new prepaid tuition plan


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Aug. 29,
2003 -- WUSTL students give back
 Washington University students volunteer for fifth annual Service First


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Aug. 27,
2003 -- Cold comfort
 If you've got an ache, try an ice pack, says sports medicine expert


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Aug. 26,
2003 -- Free speech and First Amendment discusses at Assembly Series
 Columbia University president, Lee C. Bollinger, to deliver inaugural Assembly Series lecture for fall 2003


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Aug. 26,
2003 -- Raymond L. Hilgert, 1930-2003
 Popular business school professor loses three-year battle with cancer


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Aug. 26,
2003 -- Ray Hilgert leaves legacy of learning at Washington U.
 Business professor will retire after putting his students first for 40 years


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Aug. 26,
2003 -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 Surgeries allow boy to stand taller


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Aug. 25,
2003 -- Center expands mission
 International Writers Center to become The Center for the Humanities


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Aug. 25,
2003 -- Declan Kiberd to speak Sept. 9 and 11
 Irish literary scholar launches fall Writing Program Reading Series with pair of lectures


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Aug. 25,
2003 -- Lorenzo Carcaterra to read Sept. 22-23
 Author of Sleepers launches The Center for the Humanities' Writers Series


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Aug. 22,
2003 -- Top 10!
 U.S. News Ranks Washington University in Top 10


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Aug. 20,
2003 -- Patent-protected plants
 Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded patent for technology that creates disease-resistant crops


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Aug. 19,
2003 -- "Access to Justice"
 Law school presents "Access to Justice" speaker series


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Aug. 12,
2003 -- Endowed chair at Olin
 Anjan Thakor is named John E. Simon Professor of Finance at Olin School of Business


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Aug. 11,
2003 -- False memories
 Failing recall is not an inevitable consequence of aging, research suggests


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Aug. 6,
2003 -- Possible blood disease origin identified
 Mutation may help cause acute myeloid leukemia


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Aug. 6,
2003 -- Research reveals possible prevention for devastating disease
 Study of Leishmania parasite may lead to vaccine, new treatments


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Aug. 6,
2003 -- Influence 150
 Exhibition charts growth of university from 1853 to present


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Aug. 1,
2003 -- Inscriptions of Time
 Photographs of Alan Cohen at Gallery of Art Sept. 5-Dec. 7


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Aug. 1,
2003 -- Fridays at the Gallery
 Evening events include something for everyone


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Aug. 1,
2003 -- Documenting Blackness
 Is a national museum dedicated to African-American art and culture a good idea?or another form of segregation?


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Aug. 1,
2003 -- MLK roundtable, August 28
 International Writers Center hosts local scholars, activists for roundtable on 40th anniversary of King's famous speech


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July 30,
2003 -- Entrepreneurship
 Washington University in St. Louis is selected to participate in Kauffman Campuses Initiative to expand entrepreneurship education across campus


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July 25,
2003 -- Korean War legacy
 The Korean War and race relations in the United States


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July 23,
2003 -- 'We owe it to them'
 U.S. history mandates intervention in Liberian crisis, says Le Vine


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July 23,
2003 -- Regulatory spending soars in fiscal year 2003
 Weidenbaum and Mercatus centers release study on 2003-2004 federal regulatory expenditures, staffing


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July 16,
2003 -- 150 and going strong
 Washington University is turning 150 and the public is invited to join in the birthday celebration


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July 9,
2003 -- Largest human chromosome sequenced
 Sequence of human chromosome 7 is fine-tuned and finished


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July 3,
2003 -- Insight into recurring infections
 Biofilms inside bladder cells may cause recurrent urinary tract infections


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July 1,
2003 -- Atomic shuffle
 50-year-old hypothesis validated as experiments show how liquid metals resist turning solid


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July 1,
2003 -- Cellular "garbage disposal"
 Researchers image cells' garbage disposal unit in living cells, animal tumors


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July 1,
2003 -- Atomic shuffle
 50-year-old hypothesis validated as experiments show how liquid metals resist turning solid


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June 26,
2003 -- Siegel receives Pioneer Award
 WUSTL research spotlighted at Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting, June 21-25


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June 26,
2003 -- Not a factor in choosing therapy
 Prostate seed implants do not put family members at risk for radiation exposure


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June 23,
2003 -- Building community
 Eliot comes down, making way for new residence hall


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June 20,
2003 -- Media advisory
 Washington University residence hall to be imploded, making way for new student housing


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June 18,
2003 -- About face
 Washington University anthropologist sets record straight on Neandertal facial length


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June 11,
2003 -- Anatahan yields clues for improved eruption warning systems
 Seismologists record unexpected volcanic eruption on Pacific isle


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June 9,
2003 -- MBAs land on their feet
 Olin School of Business Class of 1998 featured in USA Today


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June 9,
2003 -- Learning to write
 Workshop June 16-27 focuses on developing writing skills


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June 4,
2003 -- New FCC rules
 'Gains' must offset 'collusion,' expert says


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June 4,
2003 -- Lymph nodes aid in early cancer detection
 Accurate diagnosis of early stage uterine cancer requires lymph-node check


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June 4,
2003 -- Turning genes on and off
 Yeast genomes reveal new sites of gene control


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May 29,
2003 -- Inhalers safer than cigarettes yet still addictive
 Use of nicotine inhalers could reduce rates of smoking-related illnesses


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May 23,
2003 -- Five A&S alumni honored
 Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recognizes five alumni


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May 23,
2003 -- Two Guggenheim winners announced
 Bender and Woolsey receive Guggenheim fellowships


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May 22,
2003 -- Chickens provide insight into deafness and balance
 Inner ear of chicken yields clues to human deafness and balance disorders


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May 21,
2003 -- WUSTL in the BBC
 'World losing battle against extinctions,' says WUSTL biologist Peter Raven


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May 20,
2003 -- Berkeley Prize
 Junior wins international essay competition


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May 19,
2003 -- 142nd Commencement Address
 U.S. must use power prudently, Albright tells grads


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May 16,
2003 -- Honorary degree recipients
 From a Nobel Prize winner to a 13-time Gold Glove holder, Washington University in St. Louis awards honorary degrees to six stellar people


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May 16,
2003 -- Fed Vice Chairman speaks at Olin
 Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. gives commencement address to business school grads


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May 16,
2003 -- Madeleine Albright's address at Washington University's 142nd Commencement
 A full transcript of Albright's speech


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May 15,
2003 -- New procedure for treating liver damage
 Bone marrow stem cells may one day help treat damaged livers


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May 15,
2003 -- Albright will address 142nd Commencement class
 Madeleine Albright to deliver Washington University's 142nd Commencement address


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May 14,
2003 -- Will we see red?
 North America awaits lunar eclipse May 15-16


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May 13,
2003 -- Students honored by national awards
 University students, graduates win high-profile fellowships, scholarships


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May 13,
2003 -- Inherited cancer
 Gene mutation in some uterine tumors may signal that cancer runs in family


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