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Commencement images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Undergraduate student speaker Noor Ghanam, who earned a degree from Arts & Sciences, reminded her classmates to celebrate their resilience and support for one another as well as their academic achievements.

In his remarks to the Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2022, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin suggested that the graduates ask themselves not what they want to be, but who do they want to be.

The Mass Spectrometry Technology Access Center (MTAC) has opened at the McDonnell Genome Institute on the Medical Campus. The MTAC offers proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics and spatial omics services to help researchers answer questions in basic, translational and clinical research.

The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity has announced six recipients of its 2023 Faculty Fellowships.

The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Lan Yang has been selected to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. Given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the award recognizes distinguished scientists in any discipline.

Christopher Stark, associate professor of composition and director of undergraduate studies in music in Arts & Sciences, has won the Elliott Carter Rome Prize in musical composition from the American Academy in Rome.

Michael A. Kass, MD, and Mae O. Gordon, PhD, at the School of Medicine, are the recipients of the 2022 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research.

McKelvey School of Engineering undergraduate student Caitlind Walker has received several prizes, including the 2022 Ralph S. Quatrano Prize.

The winners of the Big Ideas Competition, which supports novel and innovative projects in informatics and health-care delivery, were announced May 16.