Notables

The “Divided City” initiative at Washington University has awarded 2022 faculty collaborative grants to develop a documentary on local bus stops and to plan an Indigenous STL conference for summer 2023.

The annual James M. Holobaugh Honors ceremony celebrates Washington University community members who advocate for and serve LGBTQIA communities and recognizes many forms of leadership. Thirteen people were honored this year.

Nancy Morrow-Howell, the Betty Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy at the Brown School and director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging in the Institute for Public Health, is the recipient of the 2022 Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Contributions to Health Aging from the Gerontological Society of America.

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, has received the 2022 Mid-Career Scholarship Award from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

The American Medical Informatics Association has elected three faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine — Joanna Abraham, Randi Foraker and Po-Yin Yen — fellows of the organization’s American College of Medical Informatics.

Seven Washington University faculty members have been selected as Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recipients.

Washington University in St. Louis achieved a gold accreditation from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

For the second time this year, Chenyang Lu, an internationally recognized leader in cyber-physical systems, has received recognition for a trailblazing paper. The award recognizes his 2010 paper on using wireless sensor networks in a hospital environment.

Erik Herzog, a professor of biology, was installed as the Viktor Hamburger Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences. His talk was titled “For Whom the Bells Toll: Networked Circadian Clocks and Clock Watchers.”

The American College of Physicians has recognized three faculty members at the School of Medicine with national awards honoring excellence and distinguished contributions to internal medicine.