Notables

The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research has announced that Alex Evers, MD, the Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the foundation’s 2024 Mentoring Excellence in Research Award. 

Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School, has been named a 2024-25 Institute for Economic Equity research fellow by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

WashU researcher Deanna Barch was recognized by two national organizations for her work on schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.

Students from WashU’s Brown School recently took their classroom lessons to the frontlines of local policy, offering public testimony on a bill aimed at expanding nontraditional housing options in St. Louis.

Cindy Brantmeier, a professor of applied linguistics in Arts & Sciences at WashU, will serve on the national screening committee for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

The College Writing Program recently celebrated the 2024 winners and finalists of the James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize.

A quarter of this year’s Arch Grants recipients are startups with WashU ties.

Li Yang was installed as the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Yang delivered an installation address titled “Exploring Quantum Mechanics at Nanoscale with Petascale Computing.”

Nine WashU faculty members in four schools have been selected as 2024 Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recipients.

Several WashU faculty members contributed to the St. Louis Reparations Commission report, which outlined recommendations for city officials to repair the harm caused by racial injustice.