Record

The Gephardt Institute encourages faculty to apply for funding for programs to engage students in the election through special events, discussions or projects. Proposal deadlines are every Friday until all funds are distributed or Nov. 4.

Question: Which former U.S. president visited Washington University 100 years ago?

The Institute for Public Health and the Skandalaris Center are holding an immersive Public Health Challenge Sept. 16-18, during which multidisciplinary student teams will develop programs and concepts to reduce gun violence in St. Louis.

Registration for this fall’s WashU Moves activity challenge is open. Benefits-eligible faculty, staff, clinical fellows and postdoctoral appointees can participate in the challenge, which runs Sept. 7 – Dec. 15.

Washington University will host Midwest Research University Network’s Gateways to Innovation conference at the Cortex Innovation Community on Sept. 15. The event will focus on technology transfer and startup financing. The deadline to register is Sept. 8.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

The School of Law is celebrating its 150th anniversary at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, with a toast, cake and a Clydesdale outside Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Nancy Morrow-Howell, the Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, will receive the Crown Leadership Award Nov. 6 from the Gladys and Henry Crown Center for Senior Living in University City.

Leaders of the Washington University community gathered in the Athletics Complex Aug. 25 to celebrate the Class of 2020 and to offer its 1,780 members some words of wisdom.

Edward Greenberg, professor emeritus of economics who taught and conducted research at Washington University in St. Louis for more than five decades, died Aug. 24, 2016, at his home in University City. He was 80.