Announcements

Health and human services organizations and programs are in constant growth and movement, and the need for effective evaluation of the impact of those initiatives in the community is greater than ever. The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, together with WUSTL’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Rome Group, will present a two-day summit, “Evaluation for Social Impact” Oct. 16 and 17 at the studios of the Nine Network in midtown St. Louis.​

Members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Washington University student musicians will perform Monday, Sept. 24, outside of the Bear’s Den on the lower level of the South 40 House.

Two topics often avoided in “polite conversation” will be the buzz in the room as the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics hosts an open house from 5-7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in its new Umrath Hall location. The celebration offers the community a chance to meet new faculty, mingle with center staff and get an update on recent progress.

Beginning Thursday, Sept. 20, and running through the week of the national election, the Gephardt Institute for Public Service is offering “Issues and Ideas: Election 2012,” a series of evening panel discussions on a wide range of political issues and topics.

Olin Business School has been named to the 2013 list of Military Friendly Schools released by GI Jobs magazine. The list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the country that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members, veterans, and spouses as students and ensure their success on campus. 

The Center for Research in Economics and Strategy (CRES) at Olin Business School is hosting two special events with Kathryn Shaw, PhD, the Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Shaw is the 2012 CRES Distinguished Woman in Economics and Strategy. She will present two lectures during her visit to Olin, Sept. 27 and 28.

A memorial service for Lee M. Liberman, life trustee and former chair of Washington University’s Board of Trustees, will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in Graham Chapel. Liberman died Aug. 31, 2012, in St. Louis. He was 91.

The Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis will host its fifth annual conference, titled “Rising to the Challenge: Public Health in the 21st Century,” from 12:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Medical Campus. The keynote speaker is James S. Marks, MD, senior vice president and director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

WUSTL will test its emergency communication system, WUSTLAlerts, at approximately 12:35 p.m. CT Wednesday, Sept. 19. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time. For this test, WUSTLAlerts will send e-mails to @wustl.edu addresses and text messages to cell phones.

Nominations are now open for the 2012 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education. A $5,000 prize will be awarded to up to three WUSM faculty members who demonstrate leadership in medical student education.