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Nominations are being accepted for the Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award, which honors a married couple for extraordinary contributions to the culture and welfare of the metropolitan St. Louis area. The deadline is Oct. 31.

Mary E. Klingensmith, MD, the Mary Culver Distinguished Professor and vice chair for education in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the inaugural director of the school’s Academy of Health Professions Educators.

Washington University faculty, staff and students are invited to take part in a universitywide conversation Thursday, Oct. 11, about the incident in July when some incoming first-year students were stopped by Clayton police officers after leaving a restaurant.

During the fall 2018 semester, the Danforth University Center will exhibit a rotating display of Humans of St. Louis photographs on the first-floor corridor, outside of the Career Center. Humans of St. Louis offers viewers an intimate look at the lives and struggles of the people of St. Louis.

James Janetka, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine, is this year’s St. Louis winner of the American Chemical Society Award.

Rebecca Wanzo, associate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences, will examine the work of artist Sanford Biggers as part of a panel discussion titled “Re: Black Visual Mourning” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Four Arts & Sciences faculty members — Megan Daschbach, Janet Duchek, John Shareshian and Lynne Tatlock — were honored during the school’s annual faculty welcome reception, held Sept. 12 in Ridgley Hall’s Holmes Lounge.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Diversity invites applications for a faculty fellow for the 2018-19 academic year to work on gender equity initiatives for Danforth Campus faculty. 

Mark C. Udey, MD, PhD, has been named co-director of the Oliver Langenberg Physician Scientist Training Program in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The program supports research-oriented careers in academic medicine for MD/PhDs.

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