Campus & Community

Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, has received a 2023 Avenir Award in Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The “Share Our Stuff” program collects items during student move-out each year to divert them from landfills. Events are held regularly to get the items to new homes. The program is hosting a fashion sale from noon-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, at its North Campus warehouse, 700 Rosedale Ave.

Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience won accolades this summer as among the tops in Missouri and the nation. The Saint Louis Public Schools magnet high school was co-founded by the School of Medicine’s Will Ross, MD.

Nhial Tutlam at the Brown School, associate director for research at the International Center for Child Health and Development, won a research scientist career development award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Barbara P. Turner, a longtime staff member in the Division of Comparative Medicine at the School of Medicine, died Sept. 26 in her Belleville, Ill., home after a battle with breast cancer. She was 58.

Petra Levin, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, was installed as a George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology in a Sept. 19 ceremony held in Holmes Lounge. Her installation address was titled “The Environment Matters.”

Organized by the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, Civic Action Week runs Oct. 16-22. Events include the art exhibit “The Queer Experience: Joy as Resistance,” a panel about labor rights and a WashU Votes happy hour for graduate students.

Ruopeng An, an associate professor at the Brown School, has been accepted as a fellow in the American Academy of Health Behavior, the professional home for health behavior scholars and researchers.

The Marketing Science Institute has identified Sydney Scott, an assistant professor of marketing at Olin Business School, as a promising young scholar.

Anesthesiologist Michael S. Avidan, MBBCh, reproductive biologist Sarah K. England, PhD, and neurologist Timothy Miller, MD, PhD, all of the School of Medicine, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine in the United States.