Announcements

The Washington University Medical Center is undergoing the initial phases of a transformation that primarily will feature expansions of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Siteman Cancer Center. It also will include more space for Washington University Physicians clinics and diagnostics and new facilities for women and infants, oncology and surgical services. If you’re curious about the expansion, renderings will be on display and staff will be on hand to answer questions March 10 and 11 at two campus locations.

​John DiPersio, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Robert Schreiber, PhD, director of the school’s Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, will be honored in April by the American Association for Cancer Research.

Duncan Avenue is scheduled to be closed in segments March 3 to May 5 for sewer work. The closures will begin west of Sarah Street, just east of the @4240 building.

Washington University will test its emergency siren systems at 11 a.m. Monday, March 3, and again at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6. The tests will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather or some other emergency is occurring at those times.

As part of WUSTL’s ongoing commitment to providing a safe and secure environment for university employees, students and visitors, the university is offering additional workplace safety training sessions.

Book lovers are invited to enter the Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition. Sponsored by Washington University Libraries, the annual contest celebrates the joy of building a personal library. The deadline is Friday, Feb. 28.

Tread the Med, the School of Medicine’s popular 100-day wellness program that encourages participants to walk 10,000 steps each day, is set to begin Thursday, Feb. 27, with an Olympics-themed kickoff on the Medical Campus.

Engineers Week 2014 begins Sunday, Feb. 16, and runs through Feb. 22. Events at WUSTL are centered around the Space Race, to bring engineering to life for students, educators and the campus community. There will also be contests in butter sculpting and paper airplane-making.

The Washington University Medical Center campus is being transformed in the next decade as part of the Campus Renewal Project. Views from a live webcam showing the progress are available via this link.

​Mary Jo Bang is a poet who, for most of her life, has secretly made visual art. Buzz Spector is a visual artist who, for most of his life, has sercretly made poetry. Now both reveal their secret practices with “Otherwise,” an exhibition on view through Feb. 8 at the Fort Condo Compound for the Arts.