Campus & Community

The Division of Physician-Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has announced its fifth class of Dean’s Scholars.

Seven Washington University in St. Louis faculty members have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, joining 23 existing fellows at Washington University.

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, the Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, delivered the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture in San Antonio at the Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research.

Two innovative pilot projects led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have received funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to address critical challenges in the fields of neurodegeneration and neuroscience.

Aggie Toppins, an associate professor and chair of undergraduate design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2023 Communication Design Educator Award in teaching from Design Incubation.

Renée Shellhaas, MD, the David T. Blasingame Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded the Child Neurology Society’s 2024 Hower Award.

Ramesh Agarwal, the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to receive the 2024 Thermal and Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers.

Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD, a highly regarded radiation oncologist known for her innovative mindset in treating patients and leading research to develop new treatments for deadly gynecologic cancers and heart conditions, has been named a William H. Danforth Washington University Physician Scholar.

Edward F. Lawlor, the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor and dean emeritus at the Brown School, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, the nation’s leading honorific society of distinguished social work and social welfare scholars and practitioners. 

A team from the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences won the Microanalysis Society’s Macres Award for the best instrumentation/software paper.