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Three doctoral candidates were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education April 1-2 at Yale University.

Pro-Arc Diagnostics, a company founded by graduate student Michelle Faits and doctoral candidate Dana Watt, made it into the Rice Business Plan Competition. Vote by Saturday, April 16, to help it win funding.

The Athletics Department reminds the university community that it offers a variety of sports camps for children during the summer. There are programs for kids from 6 years old through high school, and from one-day to weeklong sessions.

Aaron Addison, director of scholarly services at University Libraries, has been selected to participate in the 2016 UCLA Senior Fellows Program. The program allows fellows to consider new approaches to issues confronting academic institutions and their libraries.

Question: What was the name of the precursor to Thurtene Carnival (which will take place this weekend, April 15-17, in front of Brookings Hall on the Danforth Campus)?

Panos Kouvelis, director of The Boeing Center for Technology, Information, and Manufacturing and Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management at Olin Business School, recently was named a Fellow by the Production and Operations Management Society.

The School of Law is expanding its Clinical Education Program with the addition of a Guardian ad Litem Clinic and an Urban Revitalization Practicum beginning in fall 2016. The new offerings bring to 19 the clinical opportunities for law students to provide free legal services to the community while learning professional skills.

Students can take a simple step this week to save lives: sign up to be organ donors. Student Organ Donation Advocates urge university students and community members to go online and participate in College Organ Donation Registration Day.

A website designed by a Washington University in St. Louis team led by Amanda Koltz, a postdoctoral research associate in biology in Arts & Sciences, was a finalist in the Climate Change and Environmental Exposures Challenge, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences announced.

Provost Holden Thorp has appointed Stephanie Kurtzman, director of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, as interim executive director. The university will launch this fall a nationwide search for a permanent faculty director.