Notables

Two Brown School faculty members, Jeremy Goldbach and Jin Huang, have been named 2025 Fellows of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Jessie Minton, vice chancellor for technology and chief information officer at WashU, received the 2024 St. Louis ORBIE Award from St. LouisCIO.

Xuming He, chair of the Department of Statistics and Data Science in Arts & Sciences, has been appointed joint editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series B (Statistical Methodology), one of the most important journals in statistical science worldwide.

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at WashU Medicine has received the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 2025 Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.

Alex Ullman, a postdoctoral fellow in WashU’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, will receive a 2024 William Riley Parker Prize honorable mention from the Modern Language Association.

Nusayba Bagegni, MD, an associate professor at WashU Medicine, has been awarded a 2024 Early Career Cancer Clinical Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Abram Van Engen, the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, has won Christianity Today’s 2024 Best Book Award in Culture, Poetry and the Arts for “Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church.”

Brad Jolliff, in Arts & Sciences, is part of the Artemis III geology team that is helping NASA to evaluate the nine potential lunar landing regions for their scientific potential.

WashU senior Emma Lembke, 22, has earned a spot on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” social media list. Lembke co-founded  Log Off, an organization for and by teens who want to raise awareness about social media’s impact on mental health.

Jeffrey Camille, a senior studying global studies and women, gender and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences at WashU, has been named a recipient of the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship.