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Leopoldo Cabassa, a professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed as a member of the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Research Advisory Board. Read more here.

Washington University in St. Louis is seeking a senior faculty leader for a newly created St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community-engaged Research, Teaching and Practice. The Faculty Executive Director will spend at least 50% effort in this position and will lead a priority initiative of the Washington University strategic plan – Here and Next. Housed […]

by David Brancaccio and Erika Soderstrom on Marketplace Morning Report Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield at Washington University in St. Louis discusses how the gray areas of work can harm people of color. She explores the topic in her new book, “Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It.” She spoke […]

Emily Boyd, a teaching professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to receive the 2023 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Lakshmi Singh Early Career Leadership Award. Read more here.

Feng Sheng Hu, dean of Arts & Sciences and the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, was installed as the inaugural Richard G. Engelsmann Dean of Arts & Sciences during an Aug. 30 ceremony at Washington University in St. Louis. Read more here.

Tansu Daylan, an assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was selected by NASA to join the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) science team. Daylan, a faculty fellow of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, is one of 14 U.S.-based researchers pursuing science investigations that will contribute to ULTRASAT, Israel’s […]

Kia Lilly Caldwell, vice provost for faculty affairs and diversity at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected president of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). Caldwell, a sociocultural anthropologist, also serves as a professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies and the Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar in Arts […]

Lindsay Stark, a professor at the Brown School, will chair a working group of the Research Group on Child Reintegration, which has been formed by the Office of the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. Read more here.

Raymond Arvidson, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded an Outstanding Public Leadership Medal from NASA. The honor — his fourth service medal from the space agency — marks the culmination of a storied career in planetary exploration that goes back to the first Viking Mars landers […]

The Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) has been established to build infrastructure to support a diverse and inclusive community. As such, it is responsible for upholding WashU’s commitment to the fair and equitable treatment of all employees of the university community. Come visit here to see education and engagement opportunities for WashU faculty and staff, […]

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, an associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the Sojourner Truth in Racial & Social Justice Visiting Professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work for the 2023-24 academic year. Read more here.

Congratulations to the 17 teaching-track faculty members in Arts & Sciences who recently earned promotions! Teaching-track faculty make vital contributions to Arts & Sciences by lending their expertise and voices to mission-critical activities across campus. Read more here.

On April 25, past recipients and members of the Washington University and nonprofit community joined the Virgils and former Congressman Richard Gephardt at the Stix House to celebrate this year’s honorees of the Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award. Read more here.

Carl Phillips, a professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Phillips received the honor for his latest collection, “Then The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.” The prizes were announced May 8 at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York by the Pulitzer […]

Denise Head and Lori Markson, both professors of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, have been named fellows of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Additionally, Calvin Lai, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, has received the 2023 Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career […]

Jean Allman, the J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities and a professor of African and African American studies, and T. R. Kidder, the Edward S. and Tedi Macias Professor in the Department of Anthropology have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, Scott J. Hultgren and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel of the Washington […]