Campus & Community

Alexander Chamessian, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, was one of two early-career leaders chosen for this year’s Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award in Pain.

WashU Medicine postdoctoral researchers Wesley Saintilnord and Matthew Reynolds have been named Jane Coffin Childs Fellows. The fellowship is designed to support the most promising postdoctoral scientists as they seek to advance research into the causes and treatments of human disease.

For the third cycle in a row, WashU receives a prestigious sustainability recognition.

Feng Jiao, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, was elected a 2025 American Chemical Society fellow.

The American Society for Engineering Education has awarded Janie Brennan, a senior lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis, the Ray W. Fahien Award for early-career excellence in chemical engineering education.

The CDC Foundation has recognized Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, the Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the WashU School of Public Health, for advancing the understanding of factors that shape health.

Amanda Pinski, a doctoral student in the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been honored for an essay titled “Are You Listening?”

The Brown School’s Mark R. Rank was named a finalist in three major independent publisher book awards for his recent book, “The Random Factor.”

Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor and vice chair of innovation and translation in WashU Medicine’s John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, has received the 2025 Retina Research Foundation’s Gertrude D. Pyron Award.

Rising WashU junior Madison Yue has won a prestigious Peter Roth Internship from the Paley Center for Media in New York.