Campus & Community

Mark Figueroa, assistant director of the Taylor Family Center for Student Success, has been recognized as an “emerging new professional” by NASPA, the nation’s leading organization for student affairs administrators. 

Nominations are being accepted for Washington University in St. Louis’ annual Faculty Achievement Awards, known as the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award. The deadline to submit nominations is Feb. 7.

Mustafa Rfat, a PhD candidate in social work at the Brown School, has co-authored a correspondence published in The Lancet calling on greater economic integration of refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities. 

Tim McBride, the Bernard Becker Professor at the Brown School, has received the 2024 Rural Excellence in Advocacy Award from the Missouri Rural Health Association. The honor recognizes outstanding contributions to health care in rural Missouri.

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.