Campus & Community

Julie L. Gerberding implores the pandemic Class of 2020 to apply the unique lessons it learned these past 15 months.

Delayed by a year, Washington University in St. Louis students who graduated in 2020 will finally get their chance to experience the time-honored tradition of walking in their Commencement on Sunday, May 30.

David Patterson Silver Wolf, associate professor at the Brown School, died Friday, May 14, 2021, in hospice in St. Louis after being diagnosed with cancer last fall. He was 57.

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Delayed by a year, students who graduated in 2020 will finally get their chance on Sunday, May 30, to experience the time-honored tradition of walking in their Washington University Commencement. More than 1,300 members of the Class of 2020 will be back on campus for the ceremonies.

Despite the pandemic, Washington University researchers collaborating with international colleagues continue to innovate and move their research forward.

In commemoration of the one-year anniversary May 25 of the killing of George Floyd, the leaders of Washington University’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion planted Black Lives Matter flags on the Brookings Hall lawn.

The McDonnell International Scholars Academy recently issued a call for proposals for its new Global Incubator Seed Grants Fund. Proposals are due by July 1.

Benjamin D. Humphreys, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been named vice president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a medical honor society that advances research by physician-scientists.

Hani Zaher, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, won a four-year $1.2 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project titled “Reading Frame Maintenance by the Ribosome during Stalling.”