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A top educational Spanish language podcast for kids recently featured Allison Martinez Mejia, a biomedical engineering PhD candidate at Washington University.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

Douglas Flowe, an associate professor of history in Arts & Sciences, is featured in “San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood,” which will premiere Oct. 9 at the New York Film Festival. Flowe also was recently featured in episodes of the History Channel series “Prison Chronicles.”

Leslie Paige, a graduate student in Arts & Sciences, is using geospatial tools to map the habitat of a critically endangered primate. She presented her work at the Geo-Resolution conference in St. Louis.

Occupational Health Services is holding free on-site flu vaccine clinics for WashU employees on both the Danforth and Medical campuses. Flu shots will take place on the Danforth Campus Oct. 7-11.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have developed a new genomic-based approach that could aid global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic roundworm infection spread by mosquitoes.

For the second straight year, WashU has won the Citizens for Modern Transit College Transit Challenge. The annual competition encourages students, staff and faculty from local colleges to log their rides on MetroLink and Metro buses for bragging rights and the College Transit Trophy.

WashU plans to test its emergency communication system at 9:55 a.m. Oct. 8. Students and employees are encouraged to ensure their contact information is updated.

Crickette Sanz, a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, was installed as the James W. and Jean L. Davis Professor in Arts and Sciences Sept. 4. Her installation address was titled “Learning From Great Apes About Rank.”

Katharine Flores, the Christopher I. Byrnes Professor at Washington University, has been named vice dean for graduate education at the McKelvey School of Engineering.