Campus & Community

Abram Van Engen, professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has won the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for “City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism.”

Jaehyung Cho, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a and a two-year $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Holobaugh Honors will celebrate Washington University community members for their advocacy for and service to LGBTQIA* communities. The ceremony will take place Nov. 11.

Roya Beheshti Zavareh, associate professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, won a three-year $203,917 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have won the 2021 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition, sponsored by the National Organization of Minority Architects.

Seven Washington University faculty members have been honored with 2021 Emerson Electric Co. “Excellence in Teaching” awards.

Robi D. Mitra at the School of Medicine received a five-year $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand opportunities in genomic research for underrepresented students.

Calvin Lai in Arts & Sciences received a nearly $350,000 grant, part of $33 million allotted by the Department of Justice to improve community policing.

The latest National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for Abhinav Jha at the McKelvey School of Engineering is another step toward early prediction of therapy response in patients with lung cancer.

“La Cortadora de Café” (2021), a painting by Quinn Antonio Briceño, a candidate for a master’s in fine arts at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, will be featured in the AXA Art Prize 2021 Exhibition.