Notables

Sally J. Schwarz, a professor of radiology at the School of Medicine,, is the new president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. She is the first pharmacist and only the fourth woman out of 60 presidents to hold the title.

Six members of the Washington University in St. Louis community will be among the speakers at an upcoming TEDxGateway Arch event.

Letitia A. Long , former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the first woman to lead a major U.S. intelligence agency, has joined Brookings Executive Education as an executive in residence.

Hillary Sale, the Walter D. Coles Professor of law and of management at the School of Law, has been appointed to the board of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received the the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science.

Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the Washington University School of Medicine, has received the 2016 Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award from the American Society for Radiation Oncology. She will receive a two-year, $200,000 grant as part of the recognition.

The winners of the annual Dean James E. McLeod Writing Prize are Adon Wade-Currie and Olivia Crow, who shared first prize, and Emily Wyland, who received an honorable mention, announced Jennifer Smith, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.

The Monsanto Fund has awarded the Institute for School Partnership (ISP) at Washington University in St. Louis a $200,000 grant to support the STEM Teacher Quality program, or STEM TQ, which helps elementary school teachers integrate science, technology, engineering and math into their curriculum.

Catherine Lang, a professor of physical therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will serve a two-year term as the chairperson of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Sciences Study Section, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review.

Liviu Mirica, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the American Chemical Society’s St. Louis Section’s 2016 Saint Louis Award.