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Shen receives environmental performance award

The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management has recognized Shiran Victoria Shen, an assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, for her environment policy research.

Awards & Notables

Silva, Yang named fellows of National Academy of Inventors

The National Academy of Inventors has elected two Washington University in St. Louis faculty members to its 2025 cohort of fellows: Jennifer N. Silva, MD, and Lan Yang.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Six student startups receive funding in Skandalaris Center Venture Competition

The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis awarded $33,000 in funding to six student-founded startups at its fall Venture Competition.

Students

Balancing act: Saint Louis Ballet dancers perform on stage, in CAPS classrooms

At the age of 31, WashU student Rebecca Cornett is planning for retirement. Cornett is a dancer for Saint Louis Ballet, which is currently staging “The Nutcracker.” She also is one of several dancers pursuing their educations at the School of Continuing & Professional Studies.

Art & Design

Komal Shah on ‘Making Their Mark’

Influential collector Komal Shah discusses “Making Their Mark.” Currently on view at WashU’s Kemper Art Museum, the exhibition places work by renowned figures such as Howardena Pindell, Joan Mitchell and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in dialogue with contemporary practitioners such as Katharina Grosse, Lorna Simpson, Sarah Sze and Mary Weatherford.

Disparity

A tale of three cities: Book explores gentrification in global context

A new book by Carol Camp Yeakey, the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, examines the causes, impact and solutions to gentrification in cities around the world.

Literature

Hegel wins MLA translation award

Robert E. Hegel, in Arts & Sciences, has won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association of America for his translation of “The Heroic Adventures of Qin Shubao,” from “Forgotten Tales of the Sui” by Chinese dramatist and writer Yuan Yuling (1599–1674).

Data & Computer Science

Faculty, staff can apply for Digital Transformation Research Corps

WashU faculty and research staff can apply for the 2026 Digital Transformation Research Corps, a summer program from the Digital Intelligence & Innovation Accelerator that pairs research teams with student developers and data scientists. Applications are due Jan. 15.

How Omar Abdelmoity claimed the Marshall Scholarship

Less than 48 hours after he learned he would not be a Rhodes Scholar, WashU senior Omar Abdelmoity hopped on a plane to interview for the equally prestigious — yet somehow more elusive — Marshall Scholarship. This time would be different.

Awards & Notables

WashU’s Abdelmoity wins prestigious Marshall Scholarship

Washington University in St. Louis senior Omar Abdelmoity received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which provides American students the opportunity to study in the United Kingdom. Abdelmoity plans to earn an advanced degree in evidence-based social intervention and policy evaluation from Oxford University and a second advanced degree in population health sciences from Cambridge University.