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Washington University will test its emergency siren systems at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17, as part of a Missouri statewide tornado drill. The tests will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.

Question: What happens to the leftover cooking oil from the university’s dining locations?

Help the university recognize a staff member who goes above and beyond to help students, faculty or others in the university community by nominating him or her for the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. The nomination deadline is March 31.

Capital Innovators, which provides tech startups with seed funding and mentorship, announced the six companies that will make up its 2016 spring accelerator class, and half were founded by university students and alumni.

Paul F. Austin, MD, a professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the John W. Duckett Pediatric Research Excellence Award from the American Urology Association’s Urology Care Foundation.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in remembrance of former first lady Nancy Reagan, who died March 6.

ARCH Air Medical Services has announced that H. Philip Moy, MD, clinical instructor in emergency medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will serve as medical director for its Missouri operations.

The Athletics Complex will close early Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, as the university hosts the first and second rounds of the NCAA Division III women’s basketball tournament. The complex will close at 3 p.m. Friday and at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

John Bowen, a sociocultural anthropologist and the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership as part of a symposium on “Europe in Turmoil,” held at Tufts Feb.17-21.

Architect Amanda Williams and artist/educator Andres L. Hernandez have won the 2015–17 iteration of PXSTL, an international design-build commission organized by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.