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Rachel Youn, BFA ’17, was selected by the Sam Fox School as a winner of a 2025 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award. The awards are open to BFA and MFA alumni of WashU working in sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography and/or time-based media. Winners, chosen by a faculty and alumni jury, each receive $25,000 to advance […]

Puji Anur, AB ’17, married Bobby Kahlon, AB ’17, on June 1, 2024, in Sonoma, California. Both grew up in the Bay Area and met at WashU as biology majors. Anur works at Maven, a women’s and family health company, and Kahlon is completing a gastroenterology fellowship program at California Pacific Medical Center. The couple resides […]

Andrew Glantz, BSBA ’17, and his GiftAMeal program reached the milestone of 2 million meals donated in July of this year. The innovative cause-marketing program has restaurant guests scan a QR code and snap a photo of their food at participating restaurants. GiftAMeal then makes a restaurant-funded donation to a local food bank to help provide […]

Christine Montero, MSW ’17, is currently working at an abortion fund in the South and has been interviewed by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal about Florida’s six-week abortion ban.

Ophelia Yuting Ji, MArch ’17, MLArch ’17, was promoted toassociate at CO Architects in Los Angeles. Since joining the firm in 2018, she has worked on complex projects for Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, LAUSD and UCLA.

Miquela Ibrao, MPH ’17, MSW ’17, graduated with a PhD in public health from the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa in December 2023. His dissertation was titled “Age-Friendly Health Systems and Cultural Relevancy: Exploring the Geriatrics 4Ms Model with Native Hawaiian Elders.”

Amanda Palucki, LA17, was chosen by the Knowles Teacher Initiative as a member of its 2023 Cohort of Teaching Fellows. The Knowles Teaching Fellows Program is an intensive five-year program for early career high school mathematics and science teachers who are collaborative, innovative leaders working toward improving education. Palucki, who is in her second year at […]

Marina Peng, FA17, and Mee Jey, GF19, both were selected as a Craft Alliance’s Artist-in-Residence for the 2023–24 cohort. Their two-person exhibit Where to Begin When to End ran at the Staenberg Gallery at Craft Alliance in July. Peng and Jey’s work focuses on Asian American and Pacific Islander narratives and stories of immigration, cultural identity […]

Yifan Diao, SI17, GR21, was named to the Top 30 Under 30 list by the 2023 All-American Chinese Youth Federation (AACYF). The honor recognizes outstanding Chinese American innovators, entrepreneurs and future leaders. Diao was selected for AACYF’s list in the Academic Research Individual Achievement category for his accomplishments in materials research and innovation, including work in energy […]

Sara Miller, BU17, started a student organization while attending WashU called Student Organ Donation Advocates (SODA), having been inspired after her older sister’s organ donation saved a life. SODA now has more than 50 chapters across the country on high school, college and graduate school campuses.