Notables

“Infrastructural Optimism” by Linda C. Samuels, a professor of urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been long-listed for the inaugural Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award.

The Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees has elected five new trustees to four-year terms, which took effect July 1.

Brown School students Kate Gershwin and Will Hutson have been named to the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health “This is Public Health” ambassador cohort.

Washington University’s Leila Sadat, at the School of Law, and Kim Thuy Seelinger, at the Brown School, have been nominated to serve on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Moscow Mechanism panel of experts.

Philip R.O. Payne, at the School of Medicine, has joined the steering committee of a National Academy of Medicine working group to draft a code of conduct for artificial intelligence in health, medical care and health research.

Ron Himes, in Arts & Sciences, will receive the Visionary Trailblazer Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education during the group’s 2023 national conference.

Kia Lilly Caldwell, vice provost for faculty affairs and diversity, has been elected president of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora.

Derek E. Byers, MD, PhD, has been named executive chair of the university’s Institutional Review Board, which reviews and approves protocols for research studies that involve human subjects. He begins the new role Tuesday, Aug. 1.

“Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis,” a new exhibition curated by WashU’s Michael Allen, will open Sept. 8 at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

Eileen G’Sell, a senior lecturer for the College Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, has won a 2023 Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism.