Notables

Megan T. Baldridge, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named a 2018 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. She will receive a four-year grant to explore the conditions that influence the evolution of different strains of norovirus.

Luis Salas, assistant professor of classics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation at Harvard University.

A $500,000 donation to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will be used to provide resiliency training for nurses at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine.

Rose Windmiller, associate vice chancellor for government and community relations at Washington University in St. Louis, was appointed by Gov. Mike Parson to the board of the Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District, which operates the region’s Metro public transit system, along with the St. Louis Downtown Airport and the Regional Freight District.

Kirsten Jones, residency coordinator in the Division of Medical Education at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was selected from more than 200 nominations as one of the St. Louis Business Journal’s “30 Under 30” honorees for 2018.

Brad Racette, MD, the Robert Allan Finke Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named to the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council. His term began in May and will continue through November 2021.

Lexi Lampkin, an undergraduate in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Robert Sagastume, a graduate student in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, have been selected among thousands of applicants to attend the 11th annual Clinton Global Initiative University this fall.

Jennifer Yu, MD, a resident in general surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has received a 2018 Outstanding Resident Teacher Award from the Association for Surgical Education.

Rosalind Early, associate editor for Washington magazine, the universitywide alumni publication, has been named a “Rising Leader of Color” by the Theatre Communications Group.

Marc Moon, MD, chief of the Section of Cardiac Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named vice president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He was elected this spring during the association’s annual meeting.