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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.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in memory of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright until sunset Sunday, March 27. Albright died March 23 at age 84.

Eric Galburt, associate professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research DNA repair.

The university is reminding employees about WUCare, a dedicated primary care physician practice offered exclusively to WashU employees enrolled in the university-sponsored health plan.

Biologist Susanne S. Renner in Arts & Sciences assembled and edited 15 papers that synthesize and challenge the current understanding of how plants separate into male and female functions for Philosophical Transactions B, published by The Royal Society.

Trailblazer Victoria Fraser, MD, head of the Department of Medicine, the medical school’s largest department, advocates for equity in academic medicine and addresses structural barriers that limit the careers of women and members of other underrepresented groups.

Washington University will test its emergency communication system at 10 a.m. Friday, April 1. During the test, WashUAlerts will send emails, voice calls and text messages.

Washington University’s Equity and Inclusion Council (WUEIC), established in 2020, is seeking members at large for the upcoming academic year. Nominations are being accepted until April 17; applications are due May 1.

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

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, won a $190,388 supplemental award from the National Science Foundation.