Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

The Parking and Transportation team at Washington University in St. Louis provides an update as the spring semester gets in full swing.

The Danforth Staff Council invites staff members to take part in one of four chat sessions, starting next week. The council wants to ensure that it can accurately represent staff needs and experiences to university administrators.

Binyam Nardos, an instructor in the Program in Occupational Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine, died Jan. 29 in St. Louis. He was 39.

Robert E. Kleiger, MD, a noted longtime electrophysiologist in the Cardiovascular Division at Washington University School of Medicine, died of prostate cancer Jan. 21 at his home in St. Louis. He was 87.

Washington University is expanding access to MO/Notify, a smartphone system that privately sends pop-up alerts to users in Missouri when they have spent time near someone who later tests positive for COVID-19.

Undergraduate members of the Class of 2022 are invited to apply to be the student speaker at the universitywide Commencement ceremony May 20.

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences is now accepting submissions for the 2022 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition. All WashU graduate and undergraduate students are eligible. The deadline is Jan. 28.

Members of the university community are urged to participate in upcoming blood drives to help restore the blood supply. The next one is Wednesday, Jan. 19, on the Medical Campus.

Longtime St. Louis benefactor Joanne Knight has committed up to $11.5 million to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to support an innovative clinical trial aimed at preventing Alzheimer’s disease by treating people before the first signs of the illness appear in the brain.

The Parking and Transportation team shares updates on shuttle schedules, the “open park” policy during winter break and ride sharing.