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​​Deanne Bell’s career has taken her from the science lab to the television studio.  Once again, the Washington University alumna proves she’s ready for primetime with a new CNBC series.

Andy Maus was the guy who used to alert undergraduate students via text message they had a package in the mailroom. Now he’s working as clinical research coordinator in the lab of Ravi Vij, MD. Here’s the story of how Maus went from the medical school to the mailroom — and back again.

Jason Purnell, PhD, assistant professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named to the Peace & Justice Commission of the Archdiocese of St. Louis by Archbishop Robert J. Carlson. He also received the Good Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America: Greater St. Louis Area Council.

Joshua Sommovilla, MD, a resident in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded the 2015 Outstanding Resident Teaching Award by the Association for Surgical Education. He received the award at the association’s annual meeting this past spring in Seattle.

Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor emeritus of physics and earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Thursday, July 30, of medical complications of mantle cell lymphoma. Among many other accomplishments, in 1987 Zinner identified for the first time material in the laboratory that predated the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

Tony Granillo, a student in the Sever Institute’s Master of Cyber Security Management program at Washington University in St. Louis, received a scholarship to attend the inaugural ISACA CSX North America Conference. 

Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, a PhD candidate in comparative literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction for her translation of Can Xue’s “The Last Lover” (Yale University Press, 2014) from Chinese to English.

Mary Dell Olin Pritzlaff, a trustee emerita of Washington University in St. Louis, died Saturday, July 18, 2015, surrounded by family at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 85.

Diversity and inclusion training is now available to staff and faculty on the Danforth Campus as well as the Medical Campus. The medical school’s diversity and inclusion team offers four levels of training, with each level lasting one hour.

The Institute for School Partnership (ISP) is partnering once again with the Monsanto Fund to bring high quality science education to students in St. Louis through its MySci program. This month, the Monsanto Fund awarded ISP with a $1,935,000 grant to create, over the course of a three-year grant period, a hands-on, inquiry and project-based science curriculum for middle school students that integrates elements of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).