Announcements

Students living in on-campus housing on the South 40 and North Side and in fraternities are shutting off lights, sharing fridges and unplugging their device chargers to win the WUSTL Green Cup, one of a series of university initiatives that promotes an ethic of sustainability. The Office of Sustainability’s overarching Less is More campaign promotes ongoing energy conservation, waste reduction, water conservation and more.

Washington University in St. Louis is a Tree Campus USA for the fourth year in a row, the Arbor Day Foundation recently announced. Tree Campus USA is a national program created in 2008 to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals.

Arguably among the most profound scientific advancements of our time, genome sequencing is having significant impacts on the understanding of human health and disease. Yet growing concerns exist around the matter of the return of a patient’s genetic results and the treatment of a patient’s genomic data at all levels of care.

As part of an ongoing road construction project, the Tower Grove Avenue bridge over Interstate 64/Highway 40 will be closed for about two weeks, beginning Monday, Feb. 3. When the bridge reopens, it will remain open until March 7 (tentatively), when it and the Boyle Avenue bridge will be closed for demolition.

The Career Center welcomes organizations for two events this week – the Mosaic SLAM, from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, in Tisch Commons, and the Spring Internship & Job Career Fair, from 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, in the Athletic Complex.

PB&Joy, WUSTL’s annual food drive, is looking for students, staff and faculty to assist in this year’s effort to collect kid-friendly foods for 135,000 St. Louis-area children.

WUSTL’s Institute for Public Health is launching a new series of talks: the Women Leaders in Public Health Career Lecture Series. Laura Svetkey, MD, professor of medicine at Duke University, will give the inaugural speech Feb. 6. The series’ goal is to offer broad perspectives from female leaders about their careers in diverse fields related to public health.

Applications are now being accepted for Washington University in St. Louis students and faculty members interested in taking part in Tsinghua University’s annual English summer camp in Beijing. An information session will be held Feb. 10.

The Women’s Society of Washington University seeks nominations for the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award. The award is given annually to one or more graduating seniors, recognizing young women who have made a significant contribution to WUSTL and have great potential to be leaders. The deadline is Feb. 7.

Ten Washington University physicians recently became certified in new medical subspecialties — five in clinical informatics and five in emergency medical services. Board certification exams were offered for the first time in each subspecialty in October.