Campus & Community

McKelvey School of Engineering undergraduate student Caitlind Walker has received several prizes, including the 2022 Ralph S. Quatrano Prize.

The Women’s Society of Washington University announced the winners of the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarships during its annual membership meeting in April. 

Commencement student speakers Bryanna Brown, of Atlanta, and Noor Ghanam, who has lived in cities across the globe, took different journeys to Washington University in St. Louis, but on Friday, May 20, both will converge on the stage at Francis Olympic Field to address their fellow members of the Class of 2022.

The winners of the Big Ideas Competition, which supports novel and innovative projects in informatics and health-care delivery, were announced May 16.

University employees are encouraged to donate food items for kids to Operation Food Search next week. Collection sites will be available Tuesday, May 24, on both the Danforth and Medical campuses.

Seven students from the McKelvey School of Engineering have been selected for paid internships as part of Boeing Co.’s new Accelerated Leadership Program.

Arijit Chatterjee, an architect based in Ahmedabad, India, has been selected as winner of the 2021-22 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture.

Chenyang Lu, the Fullgraf Professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and a preeminent expert in cyber-physical systems, and his co-authors received the 2021 IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) Influential Paper Award.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff until sunset Monday, May 16, in memory of the 1 million Americans who have died of COVID-19.

Otto Brown, a rising senior studying economics and political science in Arts & Sciences, has been recognized by the All In Campus Democracy Challenge as a member of its All In Student Voting Honor Roll.