Notables

Yixin Chen is the first person from Washington University to be elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Andrew Tuch, a professor at WashU School of Law, received the 2024 Berkeley-European Corporate Governance Institute Best Paper Award. The annual honor recognizes legal research in environmental, social and governance issues.

Danielle Sarraf, a joint master’s of business administration and master’s of public health student at Washington University in St. Louis, was named one of 10 “Students Who Rocked Public Health 2024” by the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice.

Two Brown School faculty members, Jeremy Goldbach and Jin Huang, have been named 2025 Fellows of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Jessie Minton, vice chancellor for technology and chief information officer at WashU, received the 2024 St. Louis ORBIE Award from St. LouisCIO.

Xuming He, chair of the Department of Statistics and Data Science in Arts & Sciences, has been appointed joint editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series B (Statistical Methodology), one of the most important journals in statistical science worldwide.

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at WashU Medicine has received the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 2025 Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.

Alex Ullman, a postdoctoral fellow in WashU’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, will receive a 2024 William Riley Parker Prize honorable mention from the Modern Language Association.

Nusayba Bagegni, MD, an associate professor at WashU Medicine, has been awarded a 2024 Early Career Cancer Clinical Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Abram Van Engen, the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, has won Christianity Today’s 2024 Best Book Award in Culture, Poetry and the Arts for “Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church.”