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The Danforth Staff Council invites university staff members to take part in an inaugural kickball tournament Oct. 16 on Mudd Field, during students’ fall break, following the council’s fall town hall meeting. Sign up by Oct. 5.

Bruno Sinopoli, a renowned expert in cyber-physical system and control systems, has been named chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, effective Jan. 1.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

The Program in Physical Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has a new clinical practice location in O’Fallon, Mo. The office will hold an open house Oct. 4. 

Washington University in St. Louis is committed to collaborating with global partners to address some of the world’s greatest challenges. A recent meeting in Beijing illustrated that commitment, with the focus on lifting people out of poverty.

The Biophysical Society recently named a bioengineer from Washington University in St. Louis, Rohit Pappu, as one of its 2019 Society Fellows.

The Washington University men’s and women’s basketball teams are offering Junior Bears camps to children in kindergarten through eighth grade who enjoy basketball. The girls’ camp begins Sunday, Sept. 16, and the boys’ first session is Sunday, Sept. 30.

The Office of Diversity Programs at the School of Medicine, in partnership with LGBTQ Med and OUTmed, is sponsoring a new program for LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer+) identified medical students called OUTmentor.

Pamela K. Woodard, MD, professor of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the university’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, has been appointed to the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology.

Laurie Maffly-Kipp, the Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, will be a 2019 visiting scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University in Utah.