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The university’s Bear Cub grant program helps researchers make the leap from bench scientists to budding entrepreneurs. The latest deadline for faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students to submit a two-sentence project description is Feb. 28.

Annamaria Pileggi, of Washington University’s Performing Arts Department, has contributed a chapter to the book “Approaches to Teaching the Works of Anton Chekhov” (2016).

The phone network at the Medical Campus and several other School of Medicine and BJC locations will be disrupted for four hours from late Friday, Feb. 19, through early Saturday, Feb. 20, for maintenance.

Jason Purnell, assistant professor in the Brown School, has been named recipient of the 2016 FOCUS St. Louis Leadership Award for his work on the For the Sake of All project.

Washington University in St. Louis and the Peace Corps have announced the launch of a new Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program that will provide graduate school scholarships to returned Peace Corps volunteers working toward master’s degrees in social work or public health at the Brown School.

Sabine Eckmann, director of the Kemper Art Museum, has won the College Art Association’s 2016 Alfred H. Barr Award for museum scholarship.

Attention Medical Campus drivers: Two southbound lanes of Taylor Avenue between Forest Park and Duncan avenues will be closed from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. today through Friday, Feb. 12, for construction work.

The Washington University Center for Women’s Infectious Diseases Research held its annual symposium in November on the Medical Campus. The event featured research talks by 2014-15 awardees of the CWIDR Pilot Grant Program, which aims to bring together researchers across departments to focus on topics related to women’s infectious diseases

Donate pairs of gently used shoes from now through May at locations around the Washington University campuses to the Shoeman Water Projects. Shoes are sold to raise funds for clean-water projects in developing countries.

Works by the Sam Fox School’s Patricia Olynyk will be featured in “Some Provocations from Skeptical Inquirers,” a two-person show at The Mishkin Gallery in Manhattan.