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Students and staff members are passing out information and buttons to raise awareness about Proposition A, a one-half cent sales tax increase to support the operation and expansion of the Metro public transit system. The group will be out on campus next week campaigning until the election on Tuesday, April 6.

Molly Tovar, EdD, former director of leadership for the Bill & Melinda Gates Millennium Scholars Program, has been appointed director of the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the Brown School.

Participants in the annual Relay For Life, held March 20 and 21 in the Athletic Complex, pause to observe luminaria, each bearing the name of a person who has battled cancer. More than 1,500 people took part in the 12-hour event that raised more than $182,000 for the American Cancer Society to fund cancer research, advocacy, patient services and education.

The 2010 Census is almost here, and Census Bureau officials hope to get an accurate count of everyone living in the United States on April 1, 2010. Here’s everything students attending Washington University need to know.

A new chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the national collegiate Hispanic honor society and largest foreign-language honor society in the world, opened on campus with an induction ceremony March 22 in the Danforth University Center.

The popular singer/songwriter Matisyahu (right), whose hip-hop/reggae musical style often is characterized as reflective and inspirational, performed with alumnus and friend Adam Weinberg on March 18 in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series.

The Energy Awareness Committee will host a brown bag lunch viewing and discussion of Dean Richard Smith’s famous “last” lecture, “Population, Politics and the Environment.” In a video from his final lecture before taking on duties as dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in 2008, Smith, PhD, discusses what is in store for humans in the 21st century as human population increases and the Earth’s resources remain finite.

As an engineer, Anne Marie Knott, PhD, saw a need for research that could help firms make better research and development (R&D) decisions. Now Knott, associate professor of strategy at Olin Business School, studies how companies can improve their R&D effectiveness.

From traditional foods to lively entertainment, students at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work representing a variety of countries will offer a taste of their homelands at the 16th annual International Festival beginning at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 28, in Edison Theatre.

A letter to the Washington University community regarding the public transit initiative on the April 6 ballot, Proposition A.