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The university’s Bear Cub grant program helps researchers make the leap from bench scientists to budding entrepreneurs. Faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students can submit a two-sentence project description now for this year’s final cycle.

Washington University Libraries recently appointed two people as associate university librarians: Nadia Ghasedi and Jackie Lorrainne.

The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Martha Bagnall, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, a Pew scholar in biomedical sciences. Bagnall is one of 22 exceptional early-career scientists in the biomedical sciences to receive the honor.

University staff members are invited to participate in a discussion of “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The book is this year’s selection for the 2016 First Year Reading Program. Sessions begin Aug. 2.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Alexandra Keane, who this fall will begin her second year as a medical student at the School of Medicine, is among 50 recipients of a $5,000 summer research fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society.

Question: Why are the archives of the groundbreaking civil rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize” housed in University Libraries?

Jessie L. Ternberg, PhD, MD, a professor emerita of surgery and surgery in pediatrics, died July 9, 2016, of natural causes while on vacation in Zermatt, Switzerland. She was the first female surgical resident at Barnes Hospital and served for decades at the School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Ternberg, of Creve Coeur, was 92.

The Center for the Humanities announced more than three dozen new and renewed grants in a variety of categories for faculty members and graduate students during the 2015-16 year.

University College — the professional and continuing education division in Arts & Sciences — will hold a preview night at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 21, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.