Notables

Leisha Elmore, MD, a general surgery resident at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, has been selected to represent the Society of University Surgeons at the Society of Academic & Research Surgery’s annual meeting in January 2017 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Denver-based artist, architect, businessman, designer and philanthropist Ralph J. Nagel is among seven alumni to be honored March 31 as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts annual Awards for Distinction dinner.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the AIA Office of Diversity and Inclusion have selected the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Alberti Program: Architecture for Young People as the 2016 honoree of the AIA Diversity Recognition Program.

The 33rd annual Brown School Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented in the Clark-Fox Forum of Hillman Hall. Six awardees were honored for their exceptional commitments to the fields of social work and public health.

Harvey Fields, assistant director for academic programs at Cornerstone, the Center for Advanced Learning, has been named assistant dean for student success. The position is a new one that will advance the university’s commitment to better serve low-income and first-generation students.

The Southern Illinois University Alumni Association will honor Viktor Gruev, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, as the recipient of the 2016 SIU Distinguished Alumni Award for Young Alumni Achievement.

The American Physical Society has selected two physicists in Arts & Sciences among its 146 “outstanding referees” for 2016: James Buckley and Jonathan Katz.

John Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, will begin research for a new book on linguistic profiling as part of an April 2016 scholar-in-residence program at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center on Lake Como in Italy.

Washington University student group IDEA Labs received the Spirit of St. Louis Award at the St. Louis Regional Chamber’s 2016 Arcus Awards for advancing the city’s rich history and global reputation as a hub of innovation and forward-looking vision.

The Human Research Protection Office at Washington University in St. Louis received the 2015 Award of Excellence in Innovation from the Health Improvement Institute for the office’s training manuals.