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Patricia Morency, LA11, penned her first novel, Simply Platonish (BlackGold Publishing, March 2023). The quirky, irreverent, coming-of-age story features a college woman of color who is navigating cross-racial interactions within a primarily white institution.

Alex Morel, LA11, and Ezra Smyser, LA11, who met playing basketball at WashU, co-founded Andiem, which makes “function-forward gear for athlete longevity and unmatched performance.” The duo has teamed up with orthopedic surgeons and sneaker experts to develop a basketball shoe designed to prevent ankle injuries — which they call “an unsolved problem from The […]

Jessie Atkin, LA11, won the 2023 Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest for “Generation Pan” — a contemporary sequel to the Peter Pan story written for a teen audience. The annual contest encourages the development of quality materials for educational institutions and community and children’s theaters.

Andy DeSoto, GR11, GR15, the newly appointed senior adviser for the social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate of the National Science Foundation, is working to establish partnerships within and outside of NSF to grow these sciences opportunities to advance the NSF’s mission.

William (Bill) F. Tate IV, GM11, president of Louisiana State University, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Earlier, he served for 18 years as a professor and academic administrator at WashU.

Dalia Oppenheimer, GR11,recently ­received the David N. and Roselin Grosberg Young Leadership Award from the Jewish ­Federation of St. Louis. A board member of the ­federation and co-chair of its Community Impact ­Assessment and Planning Committee, ­Oppenheimer has also served on the executive boards of Bais Abraham Congregation and Epstein Hebrew Academy.

Peng Lin, GM11, was recently named principal at Fish & Richardson, P.C., a global intellectual property law firm in Dallas. Lin ­concentrates his practice on patent prosecution and ­counseling, opinion work, due diligence studies, and patent portfolio development and management.

Christian Clerc, GA11, GA11 (architecture and urban design), is chief of data and design innovation at McMahon Group, a St. Louis consulting firm serving private clubs in all aspects of their planning, clubhouse, golf and membership needs. Clerc, who joined McMahon Group in 2015, assists communities with strategic and facility planning, gathering input from all […]

William Beggs IV, LA11, was promoted to vendor manager at Jones Lang LaSalle for Bank of America in June. He manages outsourced cleaning and janitorial vendor performance and leads special initiatives that have cleaning and janitorial impact, such as return-to-office activities and sustainability for the client’s 47.8 million square feet of real estate.

Betty Bayer (Elizabeth Jane Gibson), LA11, opened Betty’s Books in Webster Groves, Mo., in October. The bookstore offers comics, graphic novels, children’s literature,  Japanese manga and more in a family-friendly, welcoming environment.