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The Washington University Center for Women’s Infectious Diseases Research held its annual symposium in November on the Medical Campus. The event featured research talks by 2014-15 awardees of the CWIDR Pilot Grant Program, which aims to bring together researchers across departments to focus on topics related to women’s infectious diseases

Donate pairs of gently used shoes from now through May at locations around the Washington University campuses to the Shoeman Water Projects. Shoes are sold to raise funds for clean-water projects in developing countries.

Works by the Sam Fox School’s Patricia Olynyk will be featured in “Some Provocations from Skeptical Inquirers,” a two-person show at The Mishkin Gallery in Manhattan.

The Skandalaris Center for Interdiscplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship is now accepting submissions for the Global Impact Award. The award supports university students, postdoctoral researchers and young alumni who seek to create entrepreneurial ventures with a global impact.

Registration is open for the sixth annual Patient Centered Outcomes Research Center (PCOR) Symposium. It will be held April 5-6 at the Eric P. Newman Center on the Medical Campus.

Sean M. Savoie, senior lecturer in performing arts, has received two nominations in the St. Louis Theater Circle’s 2015 Awards.

They look like futuristic eyewear. But the goggles developed by Samuel Achilefu, PhD, and his team at the School of Medicine have a much greater purpose: They help surgeons see and remove cancer. Achilefu discusses his journey from childhood to the development of the goggles, to what he hopes is yet to come.

Images captured in and around the Washington University campuses.

The African and African-American Studies program in Arts & Sciences invites applications for its 2016-17 postdoctoral fellowship. Those interested should apply by March 1.

The next universitywide blood drive will be held Tuesday, Feb. 2, at seven locations throughout the campuses. All faculty, staff and students are encouraged to participate.