Notables

Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and head of the WashU Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, has received the American Chemical Society’s 2025 Saint Louis Section Award.

The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management has recognized Shiran Victoria Shen, an assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, for her environment policy research.

The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis awarded $33,000 in funding to six student-founded startups at its fall Venture Competition.

Robert E. Hegel, in Arts & Sciences, has won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association of America for his translation of “The Heroic Adventures of Qin Shubao,” from “Forgotten Tales of the Sui” by Chinese dramatist and writer Yuan Yuling (1599–1674).

Matthew Lew, at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected to the 2026 class of Optica fellows.

Cal J. Halvorsen, an associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the Leadership Award from the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work.

Jennifer Bellamy, a professor and director of the Evaluation Center at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been installed as the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor. An installation ceremony was held Oct. 8 in Hillman Hall.

Lúcia Lohmann has been installed as the George Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis.

Rachel Roberts, a professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for 2026.

Andrew Knight, an expert in organizational behavior at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, was recently installed as the Bank of America Professor.