Notables

Four students at Washington University in St. Louis have received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award that honors students who conduct research in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

With the support of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, climate scientist Bronwen Konecky in Arts & Sciences is piloting a new program to attract and support underrepresented students in the geosciences and prepare them for further studies and careers in the field.

Four physician-scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have been elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in recognition of original, creative and independent investigations in the clinical or allied sciences of medicine.

The winner of Olin Business School’s Big IdeaBounce powered by Poets & Quants is settled: it’s PedalCell, a bike-connected power generator for portable devices.

Farshid Guilak, the Mildred B. Simon Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and co-director of the Washington University Center for Regenerative Medicine at the School of Medicine, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Raymond E. Arvidson in Arts & Sciences won the 2022 Richard D. Schwartz Supportive Faculty Award from the St. Louis Astronomical Society.

Will Ross, MD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Medicine and associate dean for diversity at the School of Medicine, has been elected to the Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education’s (SACME) Academy of Fellows.

Xuan ‘Silvia’ Zhang, associate professor in the Department Electrical & Systems Engineering, will present her research to her peers.

Karen Tokarz, the Charles Nagel Professor of Public Interest Law & Policy, has received a 2022 What’s Right With the Region award from Focus St. Louis.

Mohini Sengupta, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Medicine, received third place in the 2021 Mightex Research Excellence Awards.