The Washington University International Travel Oversight Committee Executive Body enacted a travel restriction for all University-supported trips to mainland China in the wake of the global coronavirus outbreak, Jan. 29.

Washington University Graduate Workers Union launched a Valentine’s day campaign, the University hosts its annual Day of Discovery, Dialogue, and Action and two WU faculty members were awarded NEH fellowships.

A quick roundup of some of this week’s on-campus news, including a the addition of a veteran ally training program in the Brown School, a new NIH grant for leukemia research, a nonprofit appointing an assistant professor to its annual council and Holocaust Studies panel hosted by WU professors.

This week, an international symposium, two new entrepreneurship fellows and new professors get tenure.

In the news this weekend: Trans Day of Remembrance vigil, Mark Wrighton responds to the federal tax plan, and Wash. U. ranked seventh in the nation for entrepreneurship.

Happenings around the Wash. U. Community the week of Nov. 6