Notables

Lamar Pierce, professor of organization and strategy at Olin Business School, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Organization Science.

Thomas De Fer, MD, and Victoria J. Fraser, MD, both of the School of Medicine, have been awarded mastership in the American College of Physicians, one of the highest honors available to internists.

Most presidents have 100 years until they fade from Americans’ memory. Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger in Arts & Sciences will discuss his research into this and the broader national collective memory on Sept. 29.

Arpita Bose, in Arts & Sciences, attended a White House summit on biotechnology, along with representatives from government and the private sector. In her research at Washington University, Bose harnesses the power of microbes to create new biofuels and bioplastics.

A center in the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences received a grant establishing the School of Medicine as a coordinating center for the Short-Term Research Experience Program to Unlock Potential. STEP-UP is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program to introduce scholars underrepresented in medicine to medical research.

To develop guidelines to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) in nuclear-medicine imaging, an interdisciplinary team established by Richard L. Wahl, MD, director of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) and led by Abhinav Jha, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, published Recommendations for Evaluation of AI for Nuclear Medicine in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Cynthia E. Rogers, MD, the Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, has been named an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine.

Ryan Emenecker, a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University School of Medicine, has won the 2022 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation.

Washington University is again included among the top universities granted U.S. patents worldwide.

Matt Sullivan, the university’s assistant director of disability resources, has received the Rising Star Award from the Coalition for Disability Access in Health Sciences Education.