Campus & Community

Focus St. Louis selected some members of the WashU community to participate in its 2024-25 civic leadership programs.

Chris Anderson, grounds manager and horticulturalist at Washington University in St. Louis, is the recipient of this year’s Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award.

Medical students at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently honored faculty and residents with Distinguished Service and Teaching Awards (DSTAs) for the 2023-24 academic year.

Yao Chen, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the School of Medicine, is part of two teams that have been awarded grants to study the molecular processes that underlie memory and cognition.

Yiannis Kantaros, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, has received a five-year $591,457 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation to address limitations to robot autonomy.

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based architect Adare Brown has been selected as winner of the 2023-24 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture. Established in 1926, the biannual $75,000 prize, which supports research through international travel, is among the largest such fellowships in the United States.

Arpita Bose, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, will travel to Belgium next year to continue her work on the green potential of purple bacteria.

Brendan P. Lucey, MD, a professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2024 Sleep Science Award from the American Academy of Neurology in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the neurology and neuroscience of sleep.

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, the Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Endowed Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for his research contributions.

Washington University in St. Louis was ranked among the top 100 U.S. universities granted patents in 2023, according to a report released June 4 by the National Academy of Inventors.