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Anthony J. Azama, associate vice chancellor for student affairs and the John M. Schael Director of Athletics at the Washington University of St. Louis, has been appointed an at-large member of the National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators’ board of directors.

Courtney Reichhardt, an assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue several projects on fibrillar adhesins, the proteins bacteria use to stick to each other and surfaces.

Patty Jo Watson, a professor emerita in anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Arlington, Mass. Watson was one of the world’s leading experts on cave archaeology and agricultural origins.

Anjali Bhorade, MD, an associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died June 12 after battling metastatic breast cancer for nearly three years. She was 51.

Rachel Sachs, a WashU professor of law, has been appointed to the Illinois Advisory Council on Financing and Access to Sickle Cell Disease Treatment and Other High-Cost Drugs and Treatments.

Ugandan women’s ability to negotiate the conditions and timing of sex is key to preventing several reproductive health outcomes, say experts from the university’s Brown School.

David J. Gray has been appointed interim senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced.

Microscopy engineers at Washington University model how molecules move to enhance understanding of nanoscale biological systems.

Busayo Akinloye and Mayah Clayton, who are pursuing master’s degrees in public health in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, have been named This Is Public Health Ambassadors for 2024-25 by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

Washington University School of Medicine faculty members Mark Rutherford and Yang E. Li have won grants from St. Baldrick’s Foundation to study pediatric cancers.