Announcements

The YouthBridge Social Enterprise and Innovation Competition is marking its 10th anniversary. The competition, a partnership with the Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship, encourages nonprofits to create earned-income models for sustainability, rather than relying on grants and donations. Entries are due Monday, Jan. 5.

Attention Washington University staff members looking for an experience described as “wonderful,” “insightful” and “enriching”: Apply now for a chance to travel to South Korea in the summer of 2015 through the Global Diversity Overseas Seminar Program. The program is a professional development opportunity for staff that looks at diversity from a global perspective. Past cohorts have traveled to Ghana, Chile, Paris and Shanghai.

Beginning Jan. 5, visitor parking rates at Washington University School of Medicine’s Metro and Clayton garages will change to align with garage visitor parking rates of the School of Medicine’s hospital partners.

Former U.S. senators John C. Danforth and Joe Lieberman will discuss “The Role of Religion in America’s Broken Politics” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, in Graham Chapel at Washington University in St. Louis. The event is sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics as part of the Danforth Distinguished Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

A new summer program targeting sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders will be available in the summer of 2015. The Middle School Summer Challenge combines advanced coursework in a range of academic interests with leadership development designed to provide participants with a complete scholastic and social experience.

​In an effort to serve more St. Louis-area talented learners, Washington University in St. Louis will nearly double the size of its next College Prep Program class to some 45-50 students. Now in its second year, the three-year program prepares high-achieving high school students with limited financial resources for success in college. The deadline to nominate a current high school freshman is Tuesday, Nov. 18.

​The Washington University Police Department is again helping with the annual Warners’ Warm-Up Coat Drive. Faculty, staff and students can bring new or gently used winter coats to donate to the Police Department in Lien House on the South 40 area of campus through Friday, Nov. 14.

Starting Monday, Nov. 10, utility work on Kingshighway Boulevard will require evening lane closures for about two weeks. The lane closures will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 2 a.m. to minimize disruption to traffic. Contractors will close only one lane at a time, retaining two through lanes.

LGBT Student Involvement and Leadership will host the James M. Holobaugh Honors Ceremony at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in the Knight Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Holobaugh Honors is an annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual or ally (referred to as LGBTQIA) community recognition and awards ceremony that honors undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, faculty and community members who have contributed to LGBTQIA visibility, equality and community.

Faculty in the Division of Emergency Medicine are hosting a regional conference on out-of-hospital medicine from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 23 and 24, at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis. Out-of-hospital medicine refers to treatment provided by emergency medical services (EMS) that operate under the supervision of physicians.