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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.

Question: Students are drawn to the university from every state in the U.S. and far beyond. How many countries are represented among first-year students, who will move in and celebrate Convocation on Thursday, Aug. 25?

Evan Sadler, PhD, MD, a professor of medicine and director of the Division of Hematology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the 2016 Henry M. Stratton Medal for Basic Science.

Adrienne Strong, a doctoral candidate in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has researched maternal health and mortality in Tanzania for years. Along the way, for and through her work, she has learned Swahili, become a doula and raised funds for a boat to improve access to medical care.