Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Diversity and inclusion training is now available to staff and faculty on the Danforth Campus as well as the Medical Campus. The medical school’s diversity and inclusion team offers four levels of training, with each level lasting one hour.

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has awarded grants to a number of faculty and graduate students for seminars or focused reading and writing groups for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Paige McGinley, assistant professor of performing arts in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the American Theatre and Drama Society’s 2014 John W. Frick Award for the best book in American theater and drama for her book, “Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism.”

Washington University in St. Louis student Beakal M. Gezahegn has been named a 2015 STRIDE Undergraduate Research Fellow by the American Physiological Society.

The Pew Charitable Trusts have named two early-career faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis among their Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences. They are Qin Liu, PhD, of the School of Medicine, and Gary J. Patti, PhD, of Arts & Sciences.

Robert Mark Morgan, senior lecturer in drama in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the 2015 St. Louis Theater Circle award for outstanding set design in a musical for “Seussical” at the Muny.

Sean M. Savoie, senior lecturer in drama and coordinator of the design-technical theater program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, taught a professional development class at the Entertainment Technology New Zealand Inc. (ETNZ) 2015 Conference: “Big Steps Forward.”

Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo, PhD, assistant dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and senior lecturer in African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed to University City’s Municipal Commission on Arts & Letters.

Kimberly Jade Norwood, JD, professor of law, in the School of Law, and of African and African-American Studies, in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis, was appointed to the newly formed Supreme Court Municipal Division Work Group to review the state’s municipal court system.

In an effort to increase diversity in the neurosciences, Washington University in St. Louis has received a five-year, $1.5 million federal grant to participate in a national pipeline program with that mission.