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This year, determining when to arrive for the staff recognition ceremony and whether to go on a walk or play bingo at the 32nd annual Staff Day celebration May 21 is only a click away at staffday.wustl.edu.

Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will announce a call to action for research universities worldwide to focus on the energy and environment as the greatest challenge of this century. The announcement, which comes as part of a conference involving the presidents of 12 premier research universities from Asia and the Middle East, will be made at noon May 7 in Whitaker Hall Auditorium, Washington University’s Danforth Campus.

Charles F. Knight, chairman emeritus of Emerson, received the 2007 Search Award at the 40th annual William Greenleaf Eliot Society event April 26 in recognition of his contributions as an outstanding citizen of the University who has made significant advancements in teaching, research and service to society.

Success isn’t always measured in dollars and cents. So, does a company’s non-financial performance measures reveal anything about the future bottom line? That’s the question a professor at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis addressed in a recent study. The finding: there’s definitely a link — but only when the competition is stiff. More…

On May 3, the winners of the second annual Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (SEIC) were announced at the Awards Ceremony on Washington University’s Danforth Campus. Six awards totallyin $125,000 were presented to four local nonprofits and two students. The winning groups are: The Bridge St. Louis, One World Neighborhood Cafe, the Miriam Center, the Nest, MOAR for Life and Cents City.

The School of Medicine is seeking online faculty input on the strategic plan being developed as part of the University-wide “Planning for Excellence” initiative.

Photo by David KilperTrinity Hodges inks an etching plate to run through a printing press as her mother, Traci Hodges of the John M. Olin School of Business Career Center, watches.The activity was part of the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day April 26, which featured 18 different campus-wide programs offered for parents and their children.

Jai Nagarkatti, president and chief executive officer of Sigma-Aldrich, was elected to the Board of Trustees at Washington University in St. Louis at its meeting May 4, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. In addition, the trustees reappointed two former board members and reelected seven others.

The School of Law’s Center for Empirical Research in the Law will host the workshop “Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship” May 21-23 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Matthew J. Ellis, M.D., Ph.D., is looking to use the genetic profile of breast tumors to guide therapy and to find new drugs to treat the disease.