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The Danforth Staff Council will hold a town hall meeting for staff Monday, Oct. 17. Also, the council is accepting applications for new members. Those interested should apply by Oct. 31.

The Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences is holding a photography contest for all undergraduates. The deadline to submit photos related to anthropology studies is Nov. 4.

The Gephardt Institute reminds the campus community that 5 p.m. today (Oct. 12) is the deadline to register or update voter information in Missouri for the Nov. 8 election.

Question: Before this year, how many times has Washington University prepared for hosting a presidential debate?

Opportunities for media to get B-roll footage and photos of the debate hall for the Sunday, Oct. 9, presidential debate at Washington University. Media will be allowed to capture the Commission on Presidential Debate’s town hall set from the upper balcony of the university’s Field House.

Ross Brownson, the Bernard Becker Professor at the Brown School and director of the Prevention Research Center, has received the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence for his work as a scholar, leader and public-health practitioner.

The university is holding its first Cyber Security Awareness Symposium for faculty, staff and students to learn more about information security on Wednesday, Oct. 12.

University Libraries wants to hear from students, via an online survey, about what they like, or don’t, about its spaces, services and collections.

Lee Epstein, the Ethan A. H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor, has accepted a visiting professor appointment in comparative politics and in law at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway.

Sally J. Schwarz, a professor of radiology at the School of Medicine,, is the new president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. She is the first pharmacist and only the fourth woman out of 60 presidents to hold the title.