Campus & Community

More than two-dozen artists, collectives and community organizers — many with WashU connections — are featured in Counterpublic 2023, the acclaimed public art triennial now on view at sites around St. Louis.

Dolores B. Njoku, MD, the director of pediatric anesthesiology at the School of Medicine and anesthesiologist-in-chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, has been installed as the new Rudolph L. and Mary Frances Wise Endowed Chair in Pediatric Anesthesiology.

A second broadside of the Declaration of Independence is now on view at Olin Library.

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and Provost Beverly Wendland have appointed a 10-member committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis.

Washington University in St. Louis undergraduate student Keona Dordor and St. Louis novelist Lyndsey Ellis are the inaugural recipients of the Heartland Journalism Fellowships.

At Washington University, we are firmly committed to cultivating a diverse student body that includes individuals from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. Diversity in many dimensions is critically important to our community and our mission in support of teaching, research and patient care.

Michael Awad, MD, PhD, a professor of surgery at the School of Medicine, has been named president of the Association for Surgical Education.

Mark E. Lowe, MD, PhD, an academic leader and accomplished pediatric physician-scientist at the School of Medicine, has been appointed the university’s vice chancellor for research, effective July 1.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

The winners of the Big Ideas Competition, which supports novel projects in informatics and health-care delivery, have been announced.