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<jats:p>World Toilet Day, held annually on 19 November, aims to raise awareness of the 2.5 billion people around the world living without proper sanitation. And in other news, a scientist and an artistic director have figured out a way to model the movement of molecules in a cell—through dance.</jats:p>

<jats:p>This week's Newsmakers are psychologist Peter Salovey and anthropologist Nicholas Dirks, who were picked to lead Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively; James Leebens-Mack, a plant biologist at the University of Georgia in Athens, who headed an initiative in which Charles Darwin won support from at least 4000 voters in the state's 10th congressional district; and Chinese science reporter Fang Shi-min and British psychiatrist Simon Wessely, who are the first to win an award honoring people who have defended sound science in the face of strong opposition.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The most advanced candidate vaccine for malaria lowers the risk of clinical episodes of malaria by only 31% among babies who receive their first dose between 6 and 12 weeks of age.</jats:p>

<jats:p>An increasingly loud chorus of scientists and research organizations is demanding that any cuts to the European Union's budget for the remainder of the decade be made in areas other than research.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is putting up roughly $20 million to $25 million this year to reenergize his medical foundation, which supports collaborative research into bold ideas in neuroscience and cancer. And Adelson hints that number may grow.</jats:p>

<jats:p>When the new Congress convenes in January, the House will be without two of its staunchest advocates for federally funded research, as Judy Biggert (R–IL) and Brian Bilbray (R–CA) lost their seats.</jats:p>

<jats:p>This month, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will choose from among a trio of veteran politicians vying to become the next chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.</jats:p>

<jats:p>North America is home to a record diversity of freshwater mussels with dazzling reproductive strategies and key ecological roles. But can they withstand the hard knocks of a modern world?</jats:p>