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On the docket are more than a dozen events, ranging from returning favorites to St. Louis and world premieres to the popular ovations! for young people series.

The School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital researchers will receive $300,000 annually for five years to study how infections are acquired in health-care settings.

Photo by Bill StoverThe University’s men’s and women’s tennis teams recently sponsored a tennis clinic for Special Olympics athletes in Forest Park.

He recently entered “Light of Tomorrow,” a conceptual design competition sponsored by VELUX, the European skylight manufacturer.

Photo by David KilperSolar panels were recently installed on the roof of Olin Library as a project done through the University’s Committee on Environmental Quality.

He died May 14 of pancreatic cancer; he earned bachelor’s and doctoral degrees degree in electrical engineering from WUSTL.

Photo by David KilperThe University’s 145th Commencement ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will confer degrees during today’s 145th Commencement ceremony, which will start at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.

The two-term Student Union President also was on the University’s club gymnastics team and later became a coach at a local gymnastics center.

After this issue, the Record will phase into its monthly summer publication schedule.

Washington University will bestow degrees on more than 2,630 undergraduate, graduate and professional students during its 145th Commencement at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 19, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on five individuals. Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, will deliver the 2006 Commencement address. His talk is titled “The Changing World.”