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Albert Baernstein, professor emeritus of mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, June 10, 2014.  He was 73.

If you were unable to attend one of the recent WUSTLnomics forums or if you would like to watch the presentations made by Hank Webber, executive vice chancellor for Administration, and Barb Feiner, vice chancellor for Finance, again, visit http://wustl.edu/efficiency/forums.html for a video of the forum. Visit wustl.edu/efficiency for more information about the university’s efficiency efforts.

Barry Siegel, MD, professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, was awarded the Benedict Cassen Prize for Research in Nuclear Medicine during the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The meeting was June 7-11 in St. Louis.

Faculty members Darren Dochuk, PhD, and Nancy Reynolds, PhD, will delve into new experiences thanks to awards they received this spring. Dochuk received a residency in China, and Reynolds won a New Directions Fellowship, which allows faculty to train outside their own area of interest.

​​​Ida Early, secretary to Washington University in St. Louis’ Board of Trustees (left), and Virginia Braxs, senior lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures​, were recognized as 2014 St. Louis Women of Achievement.

The Gephardt Institute for Public Service maintains the Community Counts database to track community service activities by WUSTL schools and organizations. It’s time to submit initiatives from the 2013-14 academic year. The deadline is June 30. Each submitted initiative will be entered into a drawing for $500 to support the project.

The lower level of the Women’s Building, on the Danforth Campus, is undergoing renovations this summer, so some offices are being relocated. Construction should be complete in October.

WUSTL faculty and staff are invited ti discuss “Covering” by New York University law professor Kenji Yoshino. Both a poetic memoir and a powerful legal analysis, “Covering” argues that all of us “cover,” ordownplay traits society frowns upon, to better blend into the mainstream.

WUSTL is seeking public comment about the university as part of its reaccreditation process with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. Comments are due by Aug. 21. 

New Interstate 64/Highway 40 interchanges that include an exit at Tower Grove Avenue to access the Washington University Medical Center and a new ramp from Boyle Avenue onto westbound I-64/40 have been delayed until mid-July.