Campus & Community

For the first time, WashU sponsored a hot air balloon in the Great Forest Park Balloon Race, an annual hot air balloon festival held in Forest Park. “Time Traveler” was among the dozens of entrants that delighted the STL community Sept. 15-16, 2023.

Our commitment to community runs deep, and we aim to enhance the health, equity and prosperity for all in the region and beyond.

The university has started the process to identify the inaugural dean of the new School of Public Health, planned its annual public health conference and announced a new Assembly Series speaker.

Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of the Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology at the School of Medicine, has been recognized with the 2023 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.

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.”