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Jonathan M. Green, MD, associate dean for human studies and executive chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Washington University, has been appointed to the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. He will serve a three-year term.

John A. Wright, PhD, author and historian, will speak at the 20th annual Homer G. Phillips Public Health Lecture Series at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis on Oct. 23. The title of his talk is “Homer G. Phillips and the Ville: Celebrating the Legacy.”

The Experimental Psychology Division (Division 3) of the American Psychological Association (APA) has awarded its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry L. Jacoby, PhD, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and a professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

Beth Kozel, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine at the School of Medicine, has been named a 2015 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Lasker Clinical Research Scholar.

​​Three scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Siteman Cancer Center each will receive $900,000 in funding – $2.7 million total – over two years for their innovative approaches to fighting leukemia and other types of cancer.

Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and his wife, Risa Zwerling Wrighton, will receive the inaugural “Spirit of Provident Award” early next year from the nonprofit agency Provident, which offers counseling, crisis intervention and community outreach.

Maxine I. Lipeles, JD, senior lecturer in law and director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, was honored by the Sierra Club at its annual awards program in San Francisco.

Cal Halvorsen, a doctoral student at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, recently received three honors for his work, including his research on aging issues.

Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is adopting a new system to help maximize and streamline its clinical trials management and data collection. Elements of the new system will go live later this month, with the entire system expected to be online in January.

If Republican senators from tobacco-growing southern states believe in social responsibility, they would fully explore the TransPacific (TPP) trade agreement’s potential impact on countries around the world, including provisions that influence the ability of American tobacco corporations to flood the globe with cheap, cancer-causing cigarettes, suggests the author of a book on the history, social costs and global politics of the tobacco industry.