Campus & Community

The College Writing Program in Arts & Sciences celebrated the winners of this year’s Dean James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize this fall and marked the prize’s 10th anniversary.

Samuel Kizito, a PhD student in public health sciences at the Brown School, co-authored a correspondence published in The Lancet addressing the HIV epidemic among adolescents in Sierra Leone.

Last year, student-run emergency medicine organization EST responded to 400 calls, ranging from cuts to anaphylaxis to chest pain to panic attacks. The group’s 70 members also provide coverage crews for high-contact club sports, staff vaccine clinics and offer CPR training.

From dressing bullet wounds to analyzing biosolids to developing LGBTQ outreach plans for the Alzheimer’s community, St. Louis Fellows made many contributions to regional nonprofits this summer. The Gephardt Institute celebrated their efforts Oct. 18.

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.

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.

The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded graduate student Lizzie Tilden an F30 fellowship that supports physician-scientists in training.  

The Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement invites WashU undergraduate and graduate students to apply for grants from the St. Louis Impact Fund, a new program that aims to connect students to community partners across the St. Louis.

A WashU mentorship program that supports postdoctoral researchers is seeking new members. The application deadline is Oct. 12.

Listening sessions are planned Oct. 3-4 for Danforth Campus graduate and professional students and postdoctoral researchers to share their experiences related to mentoring and support.