Announcements

University College — the professional and continuing education division in Arts & Sciences — will hold a preview night at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 21, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

A service to remember Robert Morrell, professor emeritus in Arts & Sciences, will be held at 4 p.m. Aug. 22 in the East Asian Library in January Hall. Morrell died in May.

Six finalists for the Skandalaris Center’s 3rd annual Global Impact Award have been announced. The startups will compete for a prize of up to $50,000 in funding that will be awarded this November.

St. Louis funk/soul/jazz collective The Liberation Organ Trio will launch Washington University’s 2016 Jazz in July series with a free performance Thursday, July 7.

Universitywide blood drives will be held this summer, June 29 and July 5-6, at four locations throughout the campuses. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to participate. Visit the Gephardt Institute site to sign up and for more details.

Washington University in St. Louis faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to march in this year’s PrideFest Parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, June 26.

A project to create a traditional intersection at Forest Park Parkway and Kingshighway Boulevard is expected to begin in July or August. Forest Park Parkway west of Kingshighway through Union Avenue will close to through traffic for up to a year.

Faculty and staff can purchase discounted tickets for Employee Night at the St. Louis Cardinals game Aug. 8. There’s a limit of 4 per employee.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff until sunset Thursday, June 16, as a mark of respect for those killed in the nightclub shooting June 12 in Orlando. Read the presidential proclamation. 

With a first-place travel award of $50,000, the biennial James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture is among the largest in the nation for emerging architects. The 2016 fellowship, titled “Adaptation,” centers on how flexibility and adaptive response might be better incorporated into the design process.