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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.

Beth Miller, GR17, penned The Most Painful Choice: A Dog Owner’s Story of Behavioral Euthanasia (McFarland Publishing, March 2023), which tells her family’s experience with Champ, a rescued German shepherd. Champ suffered physically and mentally from neglect and trauma from his first years of life. As well as recounting her family’s attempts to help Champ, […]

Julia (Soscia) Lowery, EN17, SI18, and Christopher Lowery, EN16, SI16, who met on campus during Julia’s sophomore year, in July celebrated their first wedding anniversary. They write that they are grateful to WashU for bringing them together and hold the university and St. Louis dear to their hearts.

Gabe Sobczak, EN17, graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He is in an otolaryngology residency program at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Cary Cheng, BU17, was selected from more than 1,000 applicants to join Georgetown University’s master of science in foreign service (MSFS) program in fall 2021 as part of a MSFS/JD dual degree. The focus of the MSFS program is “to prepare women and men to be creative leaders in the public, private and nonprofit sectors […]

Allison Swimmer, LA17, began a master’s degree program at The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy this fall.

James Petersen, SW17, is a clinical social worker at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado Springs, Colo.