The Record

Sadat, Van Essen to receive faculty achievement awards

Leila Sadat, a renowned human rights expert, and David C. Van Essen, an authority on brain structure and development, will receive the university’s 2017 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced. Eric Leuthardt, MD, will be honored for innovation.

Six to receive honorary degrees at Commencement

Washington University will award six honorary degrees during its 156th Commencement May 19. During the ceremony in Brookings Quadrangle, the university will bestow academic degrees on approximately 3,000 members of the Class of 2017.

Sustainability initiative turns 10, keeps growing

This Earth Day, university leaders announced a new name and an increased emphasis on the university’s united sustainability effort: the International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, or InCEES.

Patient meets doctor who discovered, named his condition

Thirteen-year-old Matthew Carothers met Ann Johanson, MD, at the School of Medicine this month. In 1971, Johanson discovered the rare condition that the boy was diagnosed with in 2009.