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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.

The Health and Wellness Committee is hosting Bear Balance Week to celebrate and encourage fitness and nutrition. The inaugural week, March 28-April 1, includes free yoga, kickboxing and spinning.

Registration for this spring’s WashU Moves activity challenge is open. Benefits-eligible faculty, staff, clinical fellows and postdoctoral appointees can participate in the challenge, which runs March 30-July 8.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff through sunset Saturday, March 26, in remembrance of those who died in the terror attacks in Brussels this week.

John Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, will begin research for a new book on linguistic profiling as part of an April 2016 scholar-in-residence program at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center on Lake Como in Italy.

Question: In recognition of March being Women’s History Month, what Washington University distinction does Phoebe Couzins hold?

RECESS is a March Madness-style startup pitch competition involving 18 colleges nationwide. Interested students should apply to participate by Monday, March 28.