Jack H. Ladenson, PhD, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Ladenson will be presented with the award at the annual Faculty Achievement Awards program in December. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21425.aspx

Washington University’s Alumni Association will commemorate the institution’s founding at the annual Founders Day celebration Saturday, Nov. 6. This is the second of a three-part series profiling the recipients of this year’s Founders Day awards. Carol B. Loeb and the husband and wife couple Arthur and Marge McWilliams are this year’s recipients of the Robert S. Brookings Award. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21423.aspx

Stephen Fawley (left), a senior in biology in Arts & Sciences, explains his research project “Using Estradiol-Inducible Promoters To Determine the Role of Auxin in Plant Defense During Pseudomonas Syringae Infection” to senior biology majors during the fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct. 23 in Olin Library. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21419.aspx

Influential sculptor Jessica Stockholder, director of graduate studies in sculpture at Yale University, will discuss her work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1. The talk is free and open to the public and will take place in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21418.aspx

Mott T. Greene, PhD, the John B. Magee Professor of Science and Values at the University of Puget Sound, will present “Alfred Wegener and the Origins of Modern Earth Science in the Theory of Continental Drift” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, in McMillan Hall, Room 149. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21421.aspx

• 1 p.m. Dept. of Psychology Social and Personality Brown Bag. “On the Relation Between Spontaneous Trait Inferences and Intentional Inferences: An Inference Monitoring Hypothesis.” Leonel Garcia Marques, investigator, U. of Lisbon. Psychology Bldg., Rm. 215A and 215B. (314) 935-6567.

• Parking lot 2W closed at 1 p.m. today. To accommodate the Bauhaus event taking place on the Danforth Campus, Lot 2W will be closed to vehicles entering after 1 p.m. today. Lot 2W is located by Givens Hall, near the intersection of Hoyt and Brookings drives.

• The WUSTL football team, 5-2 overall and off to its best start since 2007, opens University Athletic Association play at noon Saturday, Oct. 30, against Carnegie Mellon University.