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The Danforth Campus Parking and Transportation team shares holiday updates, spring plans and more in its November newsletter. 

Question: WashU 1992 alum Col. Robert Behnken is a NASA astronaut who most recently served as joint operations commander on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission. How many spacewalks has Behnken completed?

Seven faculty members across four undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis have been honored with the 2020 Emerson Electric Co. “Excellence in Teaching” awards.

Young-Shin Jun, professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received an $800,486 three-year grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop novel mineral-hydrogel composites that can effectively remove nutrients to manage harmful algal blooms. For this project, Jun will collaborate with Yinjie Tang, also professor of energy, environmental and chemical […]

Jack Kirkland has been a member of the Brown School faculty for 50 years. And the issues that motivated his career in social work and civil rights remain as urgent as when he began teaching. Kirkland said he seeks to create change through understanding.

Barry A. Siegel, MD, professor of radiology and of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Gold Medal Award from the American College of Radiology for his more than 40 years of leadership in the nuclear medicine community.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Karen Seibert, a deeply respected leader in pharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, at her home in Chesterfield, Mo., after a battle with a cancer. She was 61.

John Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, has been elected president of the Linguistic Society of America executive committee, which oversees the nonprofit body representing the country’s linguistics academicians.

Washington University’s Africa Initiative invites applications to its grant program, which aims to advance research and education collaborations between Washington University faculty members and scholars at academic or professional partners based in Africa. The deadline is Dec. 30.