Record

Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been nominated for a 2026 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportwriting.

Nicholas O. Davidson, MD, DSc, chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at WashU Medicine, has been honored with the 2026 Distinguished Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterological Association.

A new minor program at WashU McKelvey Engineering will equip students with the ability to connect technical decisions with societal outcomes.

Eight recent WashU alumni and one current WashU student received Fulbright awards to teach English or conduct research abroad during the 2026-27 academic year. Established in 1946, the prestigious Fulbright program recognizes talented leaders and scholars.

Mitra Naseh, an assistant professor at the WashU Brown School, has received a $612,000 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health as co-principal investigator on a new project titled “Community-Driven Solutions for Sustainable Systems Change.”

A WashU Medicine researcher has received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in mice exposed to oxycodone before birth.

WashU Law presented its 2026 Distinguished Alumni Awards recently in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Jin Huang, an expert in the development of social policies that support family and child well-being, has been installed as the Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy at the WashU Brown School.

Nicole Spangler, a rising senior studying classics and history in WashU Arts & Sciences, received a prestigious Beinecke Scholarship, becoming the first WashU student to win that honor since 2014.

Nationally recognized physician-scientist Matthew A. Powell, MD, at WashU Medicine, will lead the effort to advance gynecologic cancer care.