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A medical device built by Washington University in St. Louis undergraduate students to prevent infections in patients using catheters has won $25,000 in the 2017 Discovery Competition, sponsored by the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis.

Applications for the next cycle of the university’s LEAP Inventor Challenge are due by Monday, June 5. University faculty, postdoctoral, staff and graduate student teams are eligible.

The Campus Kitchen at Washington University seeks volunteers during the summer to help prepare meals for the hungry. Cooking shifts are 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays from June 6 through Aug. 10 at the First Congregational Church on Wydown Boulevard.

The May 22 issue marks the last daily Record of the 2016-17 academic year. The next issue will be published Wednesday, May 31, and then twice weekly through the summer. Visit The Source for the latest news between issues.

Read the full text of Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton’s message to the graduates at Washington University in St. Louis’ 156th Commencement ceremony May 19, 2017.

Anna Quindlen, a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, delivered the address at Washington University in St. Louis’ 156th Commencement ceremony. Read her inspirational remarks delivered to the Class of 2017 on Friday, May 19, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

Here is the text of graduate student Wei Zhu’s message to 2017 graduates. Zhu earned a law degree.

At the Chancellor’s Dinner for Graduating Seniors, held May 15 at the Marriott Grand Hotel, Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton presented 19 seniors with the university’s top student honors.

Four School of Medicine nurses have received the 2017 Excellence in Nursing Award from St. Louis Magazine, and six others were finalists in the program. The awards honor local nurses who have made a difference in the lives of their patients and colleagues.

Washington University in St. Louis has admitted 50 rising high school sophomores to its innovative College Prep Program, a multiyear initiative that prepares high-achieving students with limited financial resources for college. The students represent public, private and charter schools from across the region. They will live and learn on the campus of Washington University for the next three summers.