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To show appreciation for exemplary service in medical education, School of Medicine students recently presented faculty and house staff with the annual Distinguished Service Teaching Awards. Shown are Nigar Kirmani, MD, (right) and other awardees enjoying the ceremony.

The daily Record email takes a break for the Thanksgiving holidays after Nov. 26 and will resume publication Tuesday, Dec. 3. Check out news.wustl.edu for all the latest university news and information. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday.

The Missouri Department of Transportation project to construct a new interchange at Tower Grove Avenue and replace four bridges over Interstate 64/Highway 40 is on schedule to be completed mid-2014. Employees should note some changes that may affect their commutes. Some closures and openings are weather-dependent.

WUSTL’s “Courtesy is Contagious” campaign reminds cyclists to give pedestrians the right-of-way.

The board of trustees of the National Humanities Center recently elected Holden Thorp, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, as one of its three new members.

Gerald Early, PhD, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, has been appointed to the National Council on the Humanities, the 26-member advisory board to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Early is one of five new members nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Learn about the case and the competition, which in 2014 will focus on on-campus dining, at an info session at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in Simon Hall. Another session will be held Monday, Nov. 25. 

Washington University in St. Louis Emeritus Trustee Harvey Saligman died Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. He was 75. He established the Harvey and Linda Saligman Multiple Myeloma Research Fund to find new treatments for the deadly blood cancer.

The brain uses more glucose than just about any other organ in the body, and Tamara Hershey, PhD, uses brain-imaging tools to study the effects of diabetes. She also studies Parkinson’s disease, obesity, Tourette syndrome and Wolfram syndrome, learning about how fluctuations in glucose levels can influence brain function.

David A. Winters, a first-year professional master’s in business administration student at Olin Business School, died Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, following a vehicle collision on Interstate 44 near Sullivan. He was 34.