Announcements

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.

The Campus Kitchen at Washington University seeks volunteers during the summer to help prepare meals for the hungry. Cooking shifts are 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays at the First Community Church on Wydown Boulevard.

Construction of the link connecting employee parking with the Medical Campus will require Taylor Avenue to close at 8 p.m. Friday, June 3, and reopen by 5 a.m. Monday, June 6.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall will be lowered to half-staff from sunrise until noon Monday, May 30, in honor of Memorial Day, during which we remember the men and women who died while serving in the military.