In the United States, more than 100,000 people are affected with sickle cell disease, but it primarily affects the African American community, occuring in about 1 out of every 365 Black or African American births.

The university will purchase the Pennsylvania Avenue building for $372.5 million and turn it into a new home for its graduate programs in D.C.

For the second consecutive year, the Maryland Terrapins men’s lacrosse team is going to the NCAA Final Four. The Terps, who are the only remaining unseeded team in the tournament, knocked off No. 2 seed and fellow state rival Johns Hopkins 11-5 last Saturday in Annapolis.

MONDAY: Jerome Groopman — a New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author and professor at Harvard Medical School — will be at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue to discuss his latest collection of essays, How Doctors Think. If they’re like our favorite television doctor, it’s probably “What’s the best way to humiliate my employees today?” 7 p.m. $6 TUESDAY: Min Jin Lee will be at the Johns Hopkins University-SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building to read from her…

Good Morning, Washington. Birds may finally be heading south for the winter now that overnight temperatures are dipping down towards freezing, but if you can believe it or not it’s actually looking like Wednesday is going to be warm again, with temperatures predicted to be back up in the 70s. Well, at least if it’s going to be tough to find a cab tomorrow, it’ll be pleasant enough to walk or bike. CapitalWeather.com points out…

TUESDAY: The experts at Baseball Prospectus are back at Politics and Prose to talk about America’s favorite pastime. Specifically, Clay Davenport and Jay Jaffe will be discussing It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over, a collection of stories on baseball’s most exciting pennant races. 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY: A recent New Yorker article commented on the controversy behind Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer’s argument in their latest book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy….

Summer is coming and so is one of our favorite pastimes: compiling our summer reading list. Remember back when you were in middle school and you were required to read a certain number of books on the school’s list by the time classes were back in session? Yes, we realize some of you saw this as a chore. But if it weren’t for those lists, we may never have picked up books that have become…

It’s that time of the year again, when every choral group in the city has a Lenten concert, an Easter concert, or a Holy Week concert. We start this week with some of the best ones for the upcoming week. PREACHING FROM THE CHOIR: >> When the first concert on the list requires a trip to Baltimore, you know that it is going to be good. The Tallis Scholars, one of the best choral groups…

Kicking off Friday with a one-hundred and seventy-five person audience at George Mason University, the fourth annual DC Improv’s Funniest College tourney has officially started. Whatever their US News and World Report rankings, the eight D.C.-area universities participating have the chance to out-smart each other in the subject of Laughter. Spanning over the next eight weeks, the competition allows individual students (grad and undergrad) to perform stand-up against fellow classmates inner-collegiately and against rivaling schools….

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg has been president of the George Washington University for 19 years, raising the school’s profile tremendously and turning into it the city’s largest private employer. The city even named December 4th “Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Day.” Holidays aside, SJT’s tenure has not come without some controversy, generally stemming from Foggy Bottom residents, who complain that the university is too large and unresponsive. But come August 1, Trachtenberg won’t be president anymore. Trachtenberg announced…