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Celebrating innovation in St. Louis, the St. Louis Business Journal honored area individuals and companies with the publication’s third annual Innovation Awards in June. Among those honored were Washington University’s student-run IDEA Labs and Sasa Mutic, of the School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology.

Lee Epstein, the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor, will receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association at the association’s annual meeting in September in Philadelphia.

Six finalists for the Skandalaris Center’s 3rd annual Global Impact Award have been announced. The startups will compete for a prize of up to $50,000 in funding that will be awarded this November.

Peter Nagele, MD, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Ziskind-Somerfeld Research Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has appointed Jay Turner to its Scientific Advisory Board.

Question: Louis Beaumont, after whom Washington University’s Beaumont Pavilion is named, owned a department store that is now part of which major company?

James P. Anno, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences, is one of 18 emerging professionals to win a prestigious summer internship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Universitywide blood drives will be held this summer, June 29 and July 5-6, at four locations throughout the campuses. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to participate. Visit the Gephardt Institute site to sign up and for more details.

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has awarded Ramesh Agarwal, the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, the 2016 Isadore T. Davis Award.

Washington University in St. Louis faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to march in this year’s PrideFest Parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, June 26.