Notables

Patricia Weisensee, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received a $557,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Two faculty members from Washington University — Princess Imoukhuede and Philip R. O. Payne — have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). AIMBE’s College of Fellows is limited to the top 2% of medical and biological engineers.

Rafia Zafar, professor in Arts & Sciences, will discuss the legacy of Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes for LOA Live Feb. 18.

Rabbi Hershey Novack of Chabad at Washington University in St. Louis has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Visionary Award by JProSTL, the professional sector of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis.

Washington University doctoral candidate Jae Kim has won a 2021 Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The School of Law’s Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic’s 2019 report “Environmental Racism in St. Louis” is helping to shape new federal legislation.

Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School, has been elected president of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Kenneth R. Boschert, DVM, associate director of the Division of Comparative Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, has received the Charles A. Griffin Award from the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science. The award recognizes those in veterinary medicine who have demonstrated ethical scientific or technological advancements in humane experimentation or improved animal care practices.

Mary McKay, the Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean of the Brown School, has been elected as the  incoming president of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, and Renee Cunningham-Williams, associate professor at the Brown School, was inducted as an academy fellow. 

Rebecca Wanzo, chair and professor of women, gender and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences, has won the Katherine Singer Kovács awards for outstanding scholarship in cinema and media studies from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.