Notables

Students from WashU’s Brown School recently took their classroom lessons to the frontlines of local policy, offering public testimony on a bill aimed at expanding nontraditional housing options in St. Louis.

Cindy Brantmeier, a professor of applied linguistics in Arts & Sciences at WashU, will serve on the national screening committee for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

The College Writing Program recently celebrated the 2024 winners and finalists of the James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize.

A quarter of this year’s Arch Grants recipients are startups with WashU ties.

Li Yang was installed as the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Yang delivered an installation address titled “Exploring Quantum Mechanics at Nanoscale with Petascale Computing.”

Nine WashU faculty members in four schools have been selected as 2024 Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recipients.

Several WashU faculty members contributed to the St. Louis Reparations Commission report, which outlined recommendations for city officials to repair the harm caused by racial injustice.

Content and projects produced by University Marketing & Communications and other departments across WashU recently won national and several regional awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. 

A national bicycle advocacy group recently recognized WashU as a bike- friendly campus, re-awarding the university its Gold level.

Joshua S. Yuan, chair of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, was installed as the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor Oct. 17.