Notables

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.

Two Washington University researchers, Elaine Mardis and Ann Gronowski, have been recognized by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry for exceptional research and service in the field of laboratory medicine.

FoodShare, the brainchild of Washington University juniors Andrew Glantz and Jacob Mohrmann, and Dartmouth junior Aidan Folbe, is riding a wave of success — from recent wins at the Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards to the Startup Madness finals at SXSW March 14.

Capital Innovators, which provides tech startups with seed funding and mentorship, announced the six companies that will make up its 2016 spring accelerator class, and half were founded by university students and alumni.

Paul F. Austin, MD, a professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the John W. Duckett Pediatric Research Excellence Award from the American Urology Association’s Urology Care Foundation.