Notables

“Life After Rugby,” the first book-length poetry collection by Eileen G’Sell, was published in December by Gold Wake Press. G’Sell is a lecturer in writing and in the Prison Education Project in Arts & Sciences.

Peggie Smith, the Charles F. Nagel Professor of Employment and Labor Law at Washington University’s School of Law, has been elected to the American Law Institute.

Washington University in St. Louis Cadet Cormac O’Halloran, a senior majoring in political science in Arts & Sciences, was named as one of the top Army Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets in the nation.

Four faculty members from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are among the finalists in the international Chouteau Greenway Design Competition, which aims to connect dozens of cultural and educational institutions from Forest Park to the Arch. Washington University is a partner in the greenway project.

Rebecca Lester, associate professor of sociocultural anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded the 2017 Stirling Prize for the Best Publication in Psychological Anthropology.

Nick Fisher, an administration expert who has 14 years of experience with academic clinical research and cancer center operations, has been named executive director of research and business administration at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

Washington University faculty members Glenn C. Conroy and Kelle H. Moley, MD, along with businessman and philanthropist Jeffrey T. Fort, recently were honored with 2017 2nd Century Awards.

Bettina Drake, associate professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was honored with the 2017 Baylor University Distinguished Black Alumni Award.

The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) has named Eugene M. Oltz the next editor-in-chief of The Journal of Immunology. Oltz is professor and the vice chair for faculty development in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Lingyu Zhou, a Washington University in St. Louis School of Law alumna, has been awarded a highly selective 2019 Schwarzman Scholarship for graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing. A student and another alum were semifinalists.