Announcements

WUSTL’s “Courtesy is Contagious” campaign reminds cyclists to give pedestrians the right-of-way.

Learn about the case and the competition, which in 2014 will focus on on-campus dining, at an info session at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in Simon Hall. Another session will be held Monday, Nov. 25. 

In celebration of Geography Awareness Week, the Data and GIS Services unit at Washington University Libraries, is hosting lectures, workshops and the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Challenge Nov. 18-22.

A partnership between Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, will give undergraduates from any American college or university a firsthand look this summer at the burgeoning Israeli startup scene. Students have until Feb. 15 to sign up.

The Summer Programs and Conference Services office invites faculty and staff members to consider Washington University in St. Louis’ Danforth Campus as a site for their organizations’ summer conferences.

Nominations are now open for the Gephardt Institute for Public Service’s Civic Scholars Program. The program now consists of both a classic and a study abroad cohort. Faculty, staff and administrators can nominate sophomores for either group here. The nomination deadline is Dec. 2.

This holiday season, the Washington University in St. Louis community can bring burned-out or unwanted light strings to campus to be recycled. WUSTL’s Office of Sustainability and the Sustainability Action Team at the School of Medicine are partnering with StLouisGreen.com and Operation Food Search on the initiative, which runs Nov. 16-Jan. 12.

Friends and family of Bernard Becker, MD, will gather for a memorial Friday, Nov. 22. Becker, professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences, died at his home Aug. 28, 2013, at the age of 93.

A town hall meeting Wednesday, Nov. 6, at the School of Medicine will address employment needs of the autism community.

The Washington University Police Department encourages the WUSTL community to support the 13th Annual Warners’ Warm-Up Coat Drive. From now until Nov. 14, you can bring new and gently used winter coats to the Police Department in Lien House.