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The Revista de Estudios Hispanicos has received the 2017 Respo Award from the hispanistas.com blog. The Respo Award is presented to the journal that receives the most consistently positive posts for a period of two consecutive years in the “Journals” category at hispanistas.com.

Question: How many new academic buildings will be added to the Danforth Campus when the east end transformation is complete?

Bin Cao, a Washington University postdoctoral researcher who studies how the placenta protects the fetus from infections such as Zika virus, has been named a 2017 Wunderkind by the national biomedical publication STAT News.

What seems like luck is probably a lack of knowledge—and an incredibly exciting opportunity. The data generated by the booming field of microbiome research contains many hints that our familiar assumptions might in fact be wrong at the scale of microbial life. Microbiology might well be at the brink of revolutionizing how we think about living matter. For this, we need theory.

Cindy Brantmeier, professor of applied linguistics and education in Arts & Sciences, gave the  plenary address for the United Nations/UNESCO international conference on literacy in Chile in October.

Want to get involved with the Danforth Staff Council? The council is looking for new members. Applications are due Oct. 22. 

Ron Himes, the Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence in Arts & Sciences, has received the Black Theatre Network 2017 Larry Leon Hamlin Producer Award for his work as founder and producing director of The Black Rep. Himes was honored during the opening gala of the National Black Theatre Festival, which took place in Winston-Salem, N.C., this summer.

Question: In what year did the annual campus event Safe Trick-or-Treat begin at WashU?

Lauren Cubellis, a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology in Arts & Sciences, received a 2017-18 long-term research scholarship and intensive summer language course grant from the the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, or DAAD).

A statement shared with the Board of Trustees by Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, informing the board of his intention to conclude his chancellorship no later than July 1, 2019.