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A national organization that recognizes workplaces providing commuter benefits to employees recently named WashU among its 2025 Best Workplaces for Commuters.

Abram Van Engen, chair of the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, has been named the next director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. Van Engen has published widely on religion and literature.

Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, has been awarded the American Society of International Law’s 2025 Goler T. Butcher Medal.

Mark Valeri, director of WashU’s John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, received the American Society of Church History’s annual award for best book on Christianity’s history by a North American scholar.

WashU biology graduate student Jhan Carlos Salazar, in Arts & Sciences, has made high-impact — and high-altitude — discoveries about the adaptations of lizards in his home country of Colombia. He works with Jonathan Losos, the William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor.

Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH, the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery and director of the Public Health Sciences Division in the Department of Surgery at WashU Medicine, has been awarded the Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Population Science.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

The Rev. Callista Isabelle, WashU’s inaugural director for religious, spiritual and ethical life, will receive the Zenobia Hikes Memorial Award from NASPA, the nation’s leading organization for student affairs administrators, at its annual conference in New Orleans in March. 

Charles Lipton, an honorary emeritus trustee of Washington University, died Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Wellington, Fla. He was 96. Lipton also had served as chair of the WashU Public Relations Council for over 30 years.

The Office of Resource Management invites WashU faculty and staff to learn about WashU’s partnership with Southwest Airlines and other preferred travel partners. The webinar will take place at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 3.