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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.

A search committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of University Libraries has been appointed by Provost Edward S. Macias, PhD, executive vice chancellor and the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences. Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries, will retire after 23 years of service to WUSTL on June 30, 2012.

William A. Frazier, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a one-year, $35,000 Pilot and Feasibility Study Grant from the Core Center for Musculoskeletal Research. … Indira Mysorekar, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received a four-year, $600,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for research titled “Occult Infections […]

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The employee 2010-11 U-Pass — allowing WUSTL faculty and staff free use of Metro, the region’s public transportation system — will expire June 30.Benefits-eligible employees may request a new U-Pass for the 2011-12 fiscal year at the Parking & Transportation Services website. The new pass will be valid through June 30, 2012.

Washington University School of Medicine conferred degrees on its students at Commencement ceremonies held on May 20, 2011. Medical students, as well as those from the school’s Programs in Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Audiology and Communication Sciences and the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, celebrated their accomplishments with family and friends.

Gustav Schonfeld, MD, has died in New York City while on vacation visiting his children. The pioneering lipid researcher and former head of the Department of Medicine passed away due to complications from myelofibrosis.

Washington University’s 150th Commencement was a day to celebrate, honor and remember for these School of Medicine degree candidates waiting to proceed into the ceremony the morning of May 20 in Brookings Quadrangle.

Read the full text of Holocaust survivor and human rights activist Elie Wiesel’s speech at Washington University in St. Louis’ 150th Commencement May 20, 2011.

Do not stand idly by if you witness injustice, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and human rights activist, told the Class of 2011 during WUSTL’s 150th Commencement ceremony May 20 in Brookings Quadrangle. “You must intervene,” he said. “You must interfere.”