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Winners of this year’s Olin Cup business competition got $75,000 to jump-start their ventures and create jobs. Ken Harrington, managing director of the Skandalaris Center at WUSTL, announced the winners Feb. 5 at the annual award ceremony in Graham Chapel.

Before watching other champions on television Super Bowl Sunday, come celebrate our champions at 3 p.m. at the WU Athletic Complex. The 2009 NCAA Division III women’s volleyball national championship team will be honored, along with the 2009 NCAA Division III national runner-up women’s soccer team.

Maia F. “Dolly” Schultz, longtime university accountant, died Dec. 30, 2009. She was 78. Schultz worked in accounting at Washington University for more than 20 years.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit will hold a special session from 9-11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the School of Law’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The public is invited to hear three appeals cases related to a class action suit regarding organic food labeling; claims of false arrest, slander and malicious prosecution; and a dispute over a fee agreement between two law firms.

Steven L. Teitelbaum, M.D., has been awarded a $1.71 million MERIT award from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

Tiny pumpkins and other produce are part of the Sixth Annual School of Medicine Student, Faculty and Staff Art Show at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

The Boston Book Review once compared Jane Miller’s careening, associative verse to the painting of Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns: inventive, energetic and risky. At 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, the celebrated poet will read from her work for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences’ spring Reading Series.

Henry S. Webber has spent a great deal of his time evaluating and planning for the physical development of Washington University’s campuses. As he works to shape WUSTL’s future, he also looks for guidance from its past.

Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $30,652 subaward from the Colorado School of Mines for research titled “The Sedimentary Record of Arabia Terra: Remote Sensing and Hydrologic-Climatic Modeling.” … Marco Colonna, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $60,000 […]

Each One Teach One, Washington University’s signature tutoring initiative that connects tutors with area elementary- and high-school students, is recruiting new participants.