Announcements

Fair Saint Louis​ will be held July 3-5 in Forest Park. Washington University in St. Louis will sponsor the event by providing access to several campus parking areas beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, July 3. Large crowds are expected, and anyone who does not need to drive to campus during the fair is advised not to.​​

If you were unable to attend one of the recent WUSTLnomics forums or if you would like to watch the presentations made by Hank Webber, executive vice chancellor for Administration, and Barb Feiner, vice chancellor for Finance, again, visit http://wustl.edu/efficiency/forums.html for a video of the forum. Visit wustl.edu/efficiency for more information about the university’s efficiency efforts.

Barry Siegel, MD, professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, was awarded the Benedict Cassen Prize for Research in Nuclear Medicine during the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The meeting was June 7-11 in St. Louis.

The Gephardt Institute for Public Service maintains the Community Counts database to track community service activities by WUSTL schools and organizations. It’s time to submit initiatives from the 2013-14 academic year. The deadline is June 30. Each submitted initiative will be entered into a drawing for $500 to support the project.

The lower level of the Women’s Building, on the Danforth Campus, is undergoing renovations this summer, so some offices are being relocated. Construction should be complete in October.

WUSTL faculty and staff are invited ti discuss “Covering” by New York University law professor Kenji Yoshino. Both a poetic memoir and a powerful legal analysis, “Covering” argues that all of us “cover,” ordownplay traits society frowns upon, to better blend into the mainstream.

WUSTL is seeking public comment about the university as part of its reaccreditation process with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. Comments are due by Aug. 21. 

New Interstate 64/Highway 40 interchanges that include an exit at Tower Grove Avenue to access the Washington University Medical Center and a new ramp from Boyle Avenue onto westbound I-64/40 have been delayed until mid-July.

Washington University in St. Louis faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to march in this year’s St. Louis PrideFest Parade at 11 a.m. June 29. WUSTL participants will meet at the parade staging area in Kiener Plaza, located at Seventh and Market streets.

Parking fees for most Danforth Campus WUSTL employees and students will increase this year. As parking grows more scarce, employees are urged to try carpooling, Metro, cycling or another alternative transportation program. Alternative transportation coordinator Andrew Heaslet offers personal transportation consultations.