Campus & Community

Jill Edwards, who works in the Office of the Provost, is this year’s winner of the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. Staff Day for the Danforth Campus is canceled this year, but see staff milestones and other activities online.

Kia Lilly Caldwell, professor of African, African American and diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named vice provost for faculty affairs and diversity at Washington University in St. Louis.

The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral-history archive, has selected rising senior Jordan Lee as a 2021-22 Student Brand Ambassador.

One year ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Shortly thereafter, Washington University in St. Louis made the painful but necessary decision to move students out of on-campus housing, extend Spring Break a week, and shift to remote learning. In the months that followed, the university community—administrators, faculty, students and staff—has risen […]

Francesco Di Plinio, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, won a $197,616 grant from the National Science Foundation for research in harmonic analysis, a branch of mathematics concerned with the rigorous description of signals and their processing.

Wayland Cheng, MD, PhD, assistant professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine, has received the 2021 Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award from the International Anesthesia Research Society. The prestigious $750,000 award, which is given only once every three years, funds projects with an eye toward developing future leaders in anesthesiology.

Mark A. Franklin, former professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the McKelvey School of Engineering, who taught for four decades, died May 25 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease in Berkeley, Calif. He was 81.

“Let It Be Morning,” a new film based on the 2006 novel by Sayed Kashua, a doctoral candidate in comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, will compete at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Google is supporting the research of Damena Agonafer, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, citing his work on evaporative cooling.

A new report from the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association lists Washington University among the top 100 worldwide granted U.S. patents in 2020.