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This month marks the 14th anniversary of which landmark achievement for alumnus and adventurer Steve Fossett?

Celebrating innovation in St. Louis, the St. Louis Business Journal honored area individuals and companies with the publication’s third annual Innovation Awards in June. Among those honored were Washington University’s student-run IDEA Labs and Sasa Mutic, of the School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology.

Lee Epstein, the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor, will receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association at the association’s annual meeting in September in Philadelphia.

Images captured in and around the Washington University campus.

Six finalists for the Skandalaris Center’s 3rd annual Global Impact Award have been announced. The startups will compete for a prize of up to $50,000 in funding that will be awarded this November.

Philanthropist Jack C. Taylor, founder of Enterprise Holdings Inc. and a trustee emeritus at Washington University, died Saturday, July 2, in St. Louis, following a short illness. He was 94.

Peter Nagele, MD, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Ziskind-Somerfeld Research Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry.

St. Louis funk/soul/jazz collective The Liberation Organ Trio will launch Washington University’s 2016 Jazz in July series with a free performance Thursday, July 7.

Our Washington, the faculty and staff component of Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University, has raised millions of dollars to support important research initiatives, state-of-the-art facilities and scholarships for students like Maya Silver, a second-year medical student studying the link between the environment and the brain.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has appointed Jay Turner to its Scientific Advisory Board.