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Question: How many seats are there in the balcony of Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus?

Denver-based artist, architect, businessman, designer and philanthropist Ralph J. Nagel is among seven alumni to be honored March 31 as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts annual Awards for Distinction dinner.

Active Transportation Month, the annual promotion of alternative means of commuting, begins with a kickoff at 11 a.m. Friday, April 1, outside the Danforth University Center. Events will take place throughout the next month.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the AIA Office of Diversity and Inclusion have selected the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Alberti Program: Architecture for Young People as the 2016 honoree of the AIA Diversity Recognition Program.

Videos of the Feb. 25 presentations by students, faculty and staff during Washington University’s Day of Discovery & Dialogue – 2016: A Focus on Inclusion are now available for viewing.

The 33rd annual Brown School Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented in the Clark-Fox Forum of Hillman Hall. Six awardees were honored for their exceptional commitments to the fields of social work and public health.

Harvey Fields, assistant director for academic programs at Cornerstone, the Center for Advanced Learning, has been named assistant dean for student success. The position is a new one that will advance the university’s commitment to better serve low-income and first-generation students.

The Southern Illinois University Alumni Association will honor Viktor Gruev, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, as the recipient of the 2016 SIU Distinguished Alumni Award for Young Alumni Achievement.

The university’s third biennial Neurofibromatosis Center Research Symposium will be Friday, April 1, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Medical Campus. Register by March 25 to attend.

The American Physical Society has selected two physicists in Arts & Sciences among its 146 “outstanding referees” for 2016: James Buckley and Jonathan Katz.