A research university in St. Louis whose neurologists, biologists, and poets have reshaped how the world understands the brain, evolution, and American letters.
13 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Chancellor
Office of the Chancellor
Thank you for leading WashU as its 15th chancellor with a clear promise: greater academic distinction, wider access for talented students, and a deeper partnership with the city of St. Louis.
Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Office of the Provost
Thank you for stewarding teaching, learning, scholarship, and research across the Danforth Campus, and for bringing a scholar's care to every corner of the university.
William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor; Professor of Biology; Director, Living Earth Collaborative
Department of Biology
Thank you for showing the world how evolution repeats itself in the anoles of the Caribbean, and for building the Living Earth Collaborative so St. Louis leads on biodiversity.
Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences; Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry; Vice Dean of Research
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Thank you for mapping how cognition, emotion, and brain function intersect in schizophrenia and depression, and for showing how early adversity shapes children's developing brains and mental health.
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Department of Radiology
Departments of Radiology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Thank you for discovering the brain's default mode network and teaching us that the resting brain is never at rest; functional imaging as we know it stands on your work.
Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology, WashU Medicine
Thank you for leading DIAN and developing the first high-precision blood tests for Alzheimer's disease; families with inherited Alzheimer's have a worldwide trial network because you built one.
Professor of Neurology; Scientific Director, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders; Director, Knight ADRC
Department of Neurology, WashU Medicine
Thank you for working out how apoE, sleep, and synaptic activity drive amyloid, turning Alzheimer's from a mystery into a mechanism that can be measured and treated.
Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters; Professor of African & African American Studies and English
African and African American Studies; English
Thank you for essays that read boxing, Motown, and the civil rights era as one American story, told with honesty and style few critics ever reach.
Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare
Brown School
Thank you for proving that a majority of Americans will touch poverty in their lifetime, and for making inequality a question of evidence rather than stereotype.
Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law
School of Law
Thank you for decades of scholarship on parentage, gender, and reproductive justice, and for generations of lawyers taught to see families as the law's true clients.
Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences; Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Thank you for a mathematician's devotion to operator theory and complex analysis, and for insisting that pure mathematics has something real to offer working scientists.
Lilyan & E. Lisle Hughes Professor
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, McKelvey School of Engineering
Thank you for plasmonic nanosensors that make diagnostics cheaper and faster, bending nanotechnology toward everyday medicine.
Professor Emeritus of English
Department of English
Thank you for thirteen collections of poems whose syntax bends like thought itself, and for the Pulitzer-honored body of work you built while teaching poets at WashU.
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