Announcements

Nominations for the 2015 Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Award for Excellence in Service to Older Adults are now open to anyone within the St. Louis region who has made an outstanding contribution in service to older adults. The award is presented annually by the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, part of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.

Female members of the Washington University in St. Louis community are invited to register for the RAD program, a 12-hour comprehensive self-defense program which includes awareness skills as well as physical techniques. Classes will be held Feb. 7, 14 and 21 in the Village House.

Beginning at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 2, Taylor Avenue between McKinley and Clayton avenues will be reduced to two lanes of traffic each night until Feb. 11 for the installation of Ameren substation feeder conduits below Taylor.

At 9 a.m., Friday, Jan. 30, contractors will close one lane of northbound Kingshighway Boulevard, just north of Children’s Place and extending past Parkview Place, to begin construction of a tower crane. The lane will reopen at 3 p.m. the same day.

The Rett Spectrum Clinic, a specialty clinic designed to care for and support children with Rett syndrome and related disorders including CDKL5, will open Jan. 30 on the Medical Campus.

Nominations are being accepted for Washington University in St. Louis’ annual Faculty Achievement Awards, known as the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award.

In the unlikely event that Washington University alters the normal work and/or class schedule due to severe weather, an announcement will be posted on the university’s home page, and a number of media outlets also will air an announcement.

All Washington University in St. Louis employees and their families are invited to the Bears basketball annual Faculty and Staff Family Day beginning at noon Sunday, Jan. 18, at the Athletic Complex.

Washington University Medical Center faculty, staff and students will perform their annual winter concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, in the lobby of the Center for Advanced Medicine, 4921 Parkview Place. The event is free and open to the public.

The School of Medicine’s 11th Annual Art Show is accepting submissions from students, faculty and staff. The art show will be held in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center atrium, 520 S. Euclid Ave., from Jan. 13 through Feb. 11.