Notables

Tarsha Moore, a project manager for the Office of the Provost, has been named director of TRiO Student Support Services at Washington University in St. Louis. She began the role Dec. 4.

Virologist Maritza Puray-Chavez, a staff scientist at the School of Medicine, has been named a 2023 Dr. Eddie Mendez Scholar by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

Jack Thomas, a Washington University trustee and member of the University Libraries National Council, received the inaugural Washington University Libraries’ Ginkgo Award honoring exceptional service to the libraries

Anca Parvulescu, a professor of English in Arts & Sciences, was installed as the university’s Liselotte Dieckmann Professor in Comparative Literature Nov. 2.

Projects produced by University Marketing & Communications and other departments at WashU recently won 2023 Circle of Excellence Awards and district awards from CASE (the Council for Advancement and Support of Education). 

Lora Iannotti, a professor at the Brown School, has been named recipient of the 2022 Board for International Food and Agricultural Development Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab.

Megan A. Cooper, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized physician-scientist in pediatric immunodeficiencies and immune dysregulation, has been named director of the Division of Rheumatology & Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine.

The Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium, organized by Roya Beheshti Zavareh, Matthew Kerr and Wanlin Li in Arts & Sciences, brought about 150 mathematicians to campus in early November and is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Ronald C. Rubenstein, MD, PhD, a professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, has been installed as the Robert C. Strunk Endowed Chair for Lung and Respiratory Research.

Anthropologist Crickette Sanz in Arts & Sciences was honored with the Saint Louis Zoo’s 2023 Conservation Award, which recognized her work with David Morgan to help ensure the long-term survival of chimpanzees and gorillas in the Congo Basin.