Campus & Community

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has named Washington University in St. Louis a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students. Last year, 15 recent Washington University alumni earned Fulbright awards to travel abroad to conduct research or to teach English.

Maxine Lipeles, a professor emerita of law and former director of the School of Law’s Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, will receive the Lifetime Achievement and Career Award at the 2023 Albert P. and Blanche Y. Greensfelder Forum on Feb. 11.

Kathy Clark, manager of medical apprenticeships at the School of Medicine, has been selected as the Innovation in Human Resources honoree, as part of the St. Louis Business Journal’s annual HR Awards.

Brian Lananna, a postdoctoral research scholar in developmental biology at the School of Medicine, has received a three-year $215,478 postdoctoral fellowship award from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has received a $10,000 Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Marcus Foston and his co-investigator, Ulugbek Kamilov, both faculty members at the McKelvey School of Engineering, received a $577,780 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study ways to “upcycle” plastic waste.

Marcus Foston, an associate professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, is one of 20 awardees selected by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy facility, for this year’s exploratory call.

Jonathan D. Cooper,  a professor at the School of Medicine, received two grants totaling nearly $2.6 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study gene therapy as a possible treatment for CLN1, a rare genetic disease that is fatal in children. 

Monica Chang-Panesso, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in nephrology in the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine, has received the 2023 Research Scholar Award from the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation.

Tonya Edmond, a professor and interim co-dean at the Brown School, has been inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) for 2023. The AASWSW is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners who are dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare.