Campus & Community

Dylan Mack, a student at the McKelvey School of Engineering, was a finalist for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which funds graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research has announced that Alex Evers, MD, the Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the foundation’s 2024 Mentoring Excellence in Research Award. 

Clarivate, an analytics company, named 47 researchers from WashU to the Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list. These scholars represent a wide variety of disciplines, including environment and ecology; immunology; neuroscience and behavior; and social sciences.

The College Writing Program recently celebrated the 2024 winners and finalists of the James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize.

Nine WashU faculty members in four schools have been selected as 2024 Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recipients.

Cal J. Halvorsen, an associate professor at the Brown School, has been awarded a visiting scholar grant to spend 10 weeks at the renowned Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in summer 2025.

Washington University in St. Louis seniors Elijah Darden and Isaac Seiler were both Rhodes Scholars finalists, one of the world’s highest academic honors.

The university held its annual Founders Day celebration Nov. 9 to honor the outstanding achievements of some of the university’s most distinguished faculty, alumni and friends.

Content and projects produced by University Marketing & Communications and other departments across WashU recently won national and several regional awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. 

A national bicycle advocacy group recently recognized WashU as a bike- friendly campus, re-awarding the university its Gold level.