Campus & Community

WashU has joined a regional effort to collect a new hard-to-recycle material: election yard signs, from Nov. 6-14. In addition to signs from home, the program also will accept office or departmental corrugated plastic signs and metal stakes.

Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor emeritus and the James and Mary Wertsch Distinguished University Professor at WashU, has been named to Ingram’s Magazine’s list of 50 power players and leaders in business.

A new award sponsored by the Digital Intelligence & Innovation Accelerator (DI2) aims to encourage WashU instructors to develop freely available digital course materials that will improve student success.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

The WashU Arboretum, home to some 6,500 trees across the Danforth Campus, recently received Level III accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program. 

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5, and the WashU Athletic Complex is ready to welcome all voters who are registered in St. Louis County. For the first time, the Medical Campus also will host a polling place, at the McDonnell Medical Sciences Building, 4565 McKinley Ave., for voters registered in the city.

Four WashU faculty members were named Distinguished Investigators by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.

Anjan Thakor, the John E. Simon Professor of Finance at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, received an honorary doctorate Oct. 25 from the University of Gothenburg’s School of Business, Economics and Law in Sweden.

As part of WashU’s ongoing efforts to improve campus transportation and accessibility, the Office of Sustainability has launched an institutionwide transportation survey, which will be open until Nov. 18.

The Gephardt Institute invites the WashU community to submit nominations for the 22nd Annual Gerry & Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award, which celebrates students, faculty, staff and alumni who serve the St. Louis region.