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Readiness for and recovery from public health threats will be highlighted at the eighth annual conference of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis. Infectious disease outbreaks, natural disasters and civil unrest are among the topics that will be addressed.

Adjunct faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis and the Student Worker Alliance are holding a food drive Nov. 13 to benefit the Gateway 180 shelter and the St. Patrick Center. Canned goods and fruits and vegetables that will keep, such as apples and potatoes, are welcome, along with personal care items. Donations may be dropped off in the Brookings Hall archway between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13.

Brookings Executive Education provides public and private sector leaders with relevant education in support of their professional and personal goals. A partnership between the Brookings Institution and Olin Business School, BEE recently was approved for extended VA benefits. That now allows veterans to use GI Bill funding to pursue a Certificate of Public Leadership, Certificate of Policy Strategy or a Congressional Fellowship.

Teach For America recently released its annual list of schools contributing the greatest number of alumni to its 2015 teaching corps. Among medium-sized universities, Washington University in St. Louis is again among the top contributors.

The documentary film, “A Spark of Nerve,” which debuts at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the 24th annual St. Louis International Film Festival, details Susan E. Mackinnon’s decades-long tenacity in pioneering the nerve-transfer procedure and the lives transformed by it.

Jay F. Piccirillo, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named editor-in-chief of JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of 10 specialty journals in The Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA) network of publications.

Washington University in St. Louis has been recognized as a bronze level Bicycle Friendly University by the League of American Bicyclists.

On the first Monday after the end of daylight saving time, the Washington University Police Department holds its “Don’t be in the Dark” safety program. The program, in its 10th year, serves to educate students about safety tips while walking after dark.

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has honored Washington University child psychiatrists John N. Constantino, MD, and Joan L. Luby, MD, for their pioneering research with children.

Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, the Bixby Professor of Surgery and head of the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).