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Graduating senior Frances Fei and her father drop off a TV and other items for donation to the Share Our Stuff (SOS) “Lightening Your Load” event May 21 at the Academy Building. At the event, WUSTL students in the process of moving out and other community members could donate unneeded items to Goodwill rather than throw them away.

At Staff Day, many employees were honored for their years of service to Washington University in St. Louis.

In her 32 years at the School of Law, Beverly M. Owens has supported the education and research endeavors of thousands of law faculty members and students. In recognition of her hard work and dedication, Owens, assistant director for faculty support in the law school, was recognized with the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award in a May 23 ceremony in Edison Theatre.

Hannah Highfill, a master’s degree student in Islamic studies in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a 2011 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Persian in Tajikistan this summer. Highfill is among approximately 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students from more than 5,200 applicants selected to receive a CLS scholarship.

Members of Washington University’s 19 fraternity and sorority chapters gathered April 28 in College Hall in the South 40 House to recognize outstanding individual and chapter leadership in the Greek community throughout the past year.  

Robert L. Payton, vice chancellor for university development from 1960-65 and vice chancellor for planning from 1965-66, died May 19, 2011, at a skilled nursing facility in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 84.

Nancy Reynolds, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences, has received an American Council of Learned Societies’ fellowship to study the impact of Egypt’s construction of the High Dam on its culture and society.

William F. Tate, PhD, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the Department of Education in Arts & Sciences, has been named a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Washington, D.C. Tate is one of 31 scholars named by the AERA for 2011. He was inducted April 9, at the AERA annual conference in New Orleans, where he presented a paper titled Epidemiology and Education Research: Dialoging about Social Disparities.

A new weather alerts page on the university emergency website, emergency.wustl.edu, will give the university community information about how they can sign up for weather-related emails and text-message alerts from the National Weather Service and other local news outlets. The page can be found at emergency.wustl.edu/resources/weather_alerts.html or by going to emergency.wustl.edu and clicking on the “Weather Alerts” link in the “Alerts” box.

Getting a Twitter account going for a department or organization is relatively simple, but making the most of the social media platform can be a challenge. Washington University librarians will explore how to use Twitter as a powerful publicity tool in a workshop at Olin Library from 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 21. Registration is free and is open to WUSTL students, faculty and staff as well as people from other institutions and nonprofit organizations.