Campus & Community

The Missouri Foundation for Health has honored Sarah Garwood, MD, with the 2021 Dr. Corinne Walentik Leadership in Health award.

After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, Thurtene carnival returns to campus April 8-10. Organizers are inviting student groups, big and small, to participate.

Beverly Brozanski, MD, professor of pediatrics, and Jennifer Wambach, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, both in the Department of Pediatrics’ Division of Newborn Medicine at the School of Medicine, have been named new members of the American Pediatric Society.

Kater Murch in Arts & Sciences and collaborators at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis won a $750,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research. 

Binyam Nardos, an instructor in the Program in Occupational Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine, died Jan. 29 in St. Louis. He was 39.

Last fall, the Record profiled five members of the Class of 2025 who happened to sit near one another at a men’s soccer game. Five months later, the Record checks in with the students about their classes, clubs and new friends.

Engineering senior Vaishali Shah has been awarded the prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowship, which supports those interested in a career in the aerospace industry.

Rachel Sachs, the Treiman Professor of Law at Washington University, has been selected as a nonresident fellow at the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Robert E. Kleiger, MD, a noted longtime electrophysiologist in the Cardiovascular Division at Washington University School of Medicine, died of prostate cancer Jan. 21 at his home in St. Louis. He was 87.