Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Celebrating innovation in St. Louis, the St. Louis Business Journal honored area individuals and companies with the publication’s third annual Innovation Awards in June. Among those honored were Washington University’s student-run IDEA Labs and Sasa Mutic, of the School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology.

Peter Nagele, MD, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Ziskind-Somerfeld Research Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry.

Question: Louis Beaumont, after whom Washington University’s Beaumont Pavilion is named, owned a department store that is now part of which major company?

Universitywide blood drives will be held this summer, June 29 and July 5-6, at four locations throughout the campuses. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to participate. Visit the Gephardt Institute site to sign up and for more details.

The university’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences and the Center for Drug Discovery together have awarded Bear Cub grants totaling $225,000 to five teams. The funding helps scientists become entrepreneurs.

Washington University in St. Louis faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to march in this year’s PrideFest Parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, June 26.

A project to create a traditional intersection at Forest Park Parkway and Kingshighway Boulevard is expected to begin in July or August. Forest Park Parkway west of Kingshighway through Union Avenue will close to through traffic for up to a year.

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting May 6, several faculty members were appointed with tenure, granted tenure or promoted with tenure, with most changes taking effect July 1.

Question: Which university building is named after a St. Louis heiress whose daughter married Robert Brookings?

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.