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David C. Farrell, a former longtime member of the Board of Trustees, died June 5, 2023, at his home in Ladue, Mo. He was 89.

Robert M. Senior, MD, a highly regarded physician-scientist and professor emeritus at the School of Medicine, died peacefully June 8 at his home in St. Louis. He was 86.

Jon Heleno, former deputy controller at Columbia University, has been appointed associate vice chancellor for finance – planning and budgets at Washington University, announced Amy B. Kweskin, executive vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer.

Nicolae Gârleanu, an expert on asset pricing, was installed as the H. Frederick Hagemann Jr. Professor of Finance at Olin Business School during a ceremony May 8.

Coming off of a historic 2022-23 season, the Washington University in St. Louis women’s track and field team was awarded the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s Program of the Year.

Cindy Brantmeier, a professor of applied linguistics and global studies in Arts and Sciences, will serve on the advisory board for LANGUAGES, a language acquisition research study in England, Norway and France examining teachers’ instruction and students’ use of languages in classrooms.

Researchers in Randall Martin’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering won a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study, and improve, the accuracy and resolution of models used to understand chemicals’ behavior in the atmosphere.

Physicist Sheng Ran in Arts & Sciences has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a project investigating new quantum materials. The research has potential applications for next-generation electronics.

Adia Harvey Wingfield, in Arts & Sciences, has been elected the 116th president of the American Sociological Association. As president, she will be responsible for leading ASA’s overall strategic direction and policymaking.

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