Announcements

The STL PREP (Perception, Reality, Engagement and Partnership) orientation series will host a learning session for WUSTL faculty and staff at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the MySci Resource Center, 6601 Vernon Ave. “Impacting K-12 Education” will include a tour of the facility, lunch and a panel discussion.

LGBT Student Involvement and Leadership will host the James M. Holobaugh Honors Ceremony at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Knight Center. Holobaugh Honors is an annual community recognition and awards ceremony that honors undergraduate and grduate students, staff, faculty and community members who have contributed to LGBTQIA visibility, equality and community.To RSVP, fill out this form.

It’s that time of year again — time to get your seasonal flu vaccine. And this year, the vaccine is required for all students and employees on both the Danforth and Medical campuses who work with patients or in buildings where patient care is provided or clinical research occurs.

Interest among WUSTL employees and students in the fall semester workplace safety training sessions has been so high that six more sessions have been added to the schedule. The one-hour free training class for employees and students focuses on two emergency situations: recognizing and preventing violence in the workplace and responding to an active shooter on campus.

A new survey will track attitudes toward WUSTL’s tobacco-free campus enviroment and awareness of smoking cessation programs.

Washington University Libraries invite faculty, staff and students to complete a survey and evaluate the libraries’ collections, services and facilities. The survey will be available online Oct. 7-25.

To celebrate and promote the burgeoning open-access movement, the Washington University Libraries are hosting a video contest and a week of events Oct. 21-27.

This year’s Albert P. and Blanche Y. Greensfelder Lecture will focus on climate change and human health. The lecture will be 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in Simon Hall, May Auditorium. The speaker is Howard Frumkin, DrPh, MD, dean and professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health. 

Why do some St. Louis neighborhoods rebound while others languish? That’s the question that will be at the forefront of a talk presented by Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration at Washington University in St. Louis, and Todd Swanstrom, PhD, the E. Desmond Lee Endowed
 Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Policy at the University of Missouri St. Louis. That lecture, “Neighborhood Change in the St. Louis Region Since 1970: What Explains Neighborhood Success” takes place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in the Lee Auditorium of the Missouri History Museum.

Legal scholar, author and political activist Lawrence Lessig, JD, is such a popular speaker that it’s challenging to get him for one lecture, so Washington University is doubly fortunate to present an Assembly Series talk by Lessig twice in one day – Thursday, Oct. 10 — on two different subjects.