Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

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.

Researchers at the School of Medicine were awarded $575.8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in federal fiscal year 2021, according to the School of Medicine’s 2021 State of the School Report. This is an all-time high for the school.

The School of Medicine will begin construction in the spring on a six floor-expansion on top of the Steven & Susan Lipstein BJC Institute of Health building. The addition, estimated to cost $150 million, will include 160,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratory space.

Asquith S. “Sean” Armstrong joined Washington University in St. Louis as dean of University College on Nov. 1. In this video, he talks about his decision to come to WashU, his background and his commitment to University College and the success of adult learners.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in memory of former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole until sunset Thursday, Dec. 9. Dole died Dec. 5 at age 98.