Announcements

This year, for the first time, a free Student Services Professional Development Conference is being offered to the entire WUSTL staff. The response to past conferences has been overwhelmingly positive, and topics have broad appeal. Breakout sessions will focus on local, national and international university initiatives. The conference is Thursday, May 24.

Forsyth Boulevard between Olympian Way and Wallace Drive will be closed to through traffic from May 22 through August as WUSTL partners with the city of Clayton to replace the Forsyth bridge. Construction will officially begin on the project in late May following Commencement. Forsyth is anticipated to reopen in August, which is planned to coincide with the reopening of the underpass to pedestrian traffic.

Danforth Campus employees are invited to relax, have fun and celebrate with co-workers on Staff Day, Monday, May 21. Softball, volleyball, bike rides and bingo are just some of the many activities offered at Staff Day, a daylong celebration organized by the Office of Human Resources to recognize Danforth Campus staff members and show the university’s appreciation for their work throughout the year.

A meeting to help Danforth Campus employers learn the process and benefits of hiring Federal Work-Study Program students as employees next fall will be held at 9:15 a.m. Thursday, May 24, at Wilson Hall, Room 214. The meeting is being hosted by Student Financial Services and is geared toward WUSTL employers and/or departments. 

Washington University in St. Louis will hold a dedication ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, in Whitaker Hall to pay tribute to Scott and Pyong Rudolph while giving the Earth & Planetary Sciences building a new name. TV host and “Science Guy” Bill Nye is guest speaker.

The Washington University in St. Louis Alumni Association will be hosting a “Washington University Day at Circus Flora” at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 9, that will be open to all members of the WUSTL community, including alumni, faculty and staff.

The second annual Lavender Recognition Ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, in College Hall in the South 40 House. Co-hosted by LGBT Student Involvement and Leadership and the Social Justice Center, the ceremony honors the achievements and contributions of graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students and their allies.

The second annual PB&Joy food drive at Washington University in St. Louis yielded 4,686 pounds of food and $4,664 in monetary donations. The cumulative effort is enough to feed 2,338 people for a day, according to Operation Food Search estimates.

The PLAN worked, and now organizers of the Washington University in St. Louis Professional Leadership Academy & Network program are looking for a second group of participants, including staff from the School of Medicine. PLAN is a yearlong professional development program intended to help build participants’ leadership skills as well as provide WUSTL with a cadre of leaders who can contribute to university-wide initiatives and projects. Applications are due May 29.

The Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, set for Saturday, April 28, will feature 230 student presenters from a wide variety of disciplines. The full day of activities features a keynote address; presentation of the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Research; talks by students; a poster session; colloquiums; and an international review conference on migration and identity. All events are being held in the Laboratory Sciences Building.