Notables

Medical students at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently honored faculty and residents with Distinguished Service and Teaching Awards (DSTAs) for the 2023-24 academic year.

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based architect Adare Brown has been selected as winner of the 2023-24 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture. Established in 1926, the biannual $75,000 prize, which supports research through international travel, is among the largest such fellowships in the United States.

Arpita Bose, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, will travel to Belgium next year to continue her work on the green potential of purple bacteria.

Mark Oppenheimer, a well-known religion journalist and author, is the new executive editor of Religion & Politics, an online journal published by WashU’s John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.

Brendan P. Lucey, MD, a professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2024 Sleep Science Award from the American Academy of Neurology in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the neurology and neuroscience of sleep.

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, the Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Endowed Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for his research contributions.

Washington University in St. Louis was ranked among the top 100 U.S. universities granted patents in 2023, according to a report released June 4 by the National Academy of Inventors.

Adam Wilcox, a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the chair of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Methodology Committee.

Lamar Pierce, an Olin Business School expert on ethics, motivation and incentives in organizations, was installed as the Beverly and James Hance Professor of Organization and Strategy at Washington University.

Tomás Collado, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been named an Astronaut Scholar, one of the nation’s most prestigious STEM fellowships.