Announcements

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff until sunset Saturday, Feb. 20, in remembrance of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last weekend.

The 2016 Trademark Licensing Supplier Fair will be held soon. The Danforth Campus fair is 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23. The Medical Campus fair is March 9. The Trademark Licensing Program protects the university’s registered trademarks and goodwill.

The university’s Bear Cub grant program helps researchers make the leap from bench scientists to budding entrepreneurs. The latest deadline for faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students to submit a two-sentence project description is Feb. 28.

The phone network at the Medical Campus and several other School of Medicine and BJC locations will be disrupted for four hours from late Friday, Feb. 19, through early Saturday, Feb. 20, for maintenance.

Washington University in St. Louis and the Peace Corps have announced the launch of a new Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program that will provide graduate school scholarships to returned Peace Corps volunteers working toward master’s degrees in social work or public health at the Brown School.

Attention Medical Campus drivers: Two southbound lanes of Taylor Avenue between Forest Park and Duncan avenues will be closed from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. today through Friday, Feb. 12, for construction work.

Donate pairs of gently used shoes from now through May at locations around the Washington University campuses to the Shoeman Water Projects. Shoes are sold to raise funds for clean-water projects in developing countries.

The Skandalaris Center for Interdiscplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship is now accepting submissions for the Global Impact Award. The award supports university students, postdoctoral researchers and young alumni who seek to create entrepreneurial ventures with a global impact.

Registration is open for the sixth annual Patient Centered Outcomes Research Center (PCOR) Symposium. It will be held April 5-6 at the Eric P. Newman Center on the Medical Campus.

The African and African-American Studies program in Arts & Sciences invites applications for its 2016-17 postdoctoral fellowship. Those interested should apply by March 1.