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Arts and Sciences Member until August 2026 Research: Social organization and political institutions of ancient nomadic societies, Economy, paleoenvironmental interactions of extreme environments throughout prehistory, Urbanism and trade along the ancient Silk Roads. Teaching: Undergraduate courses include the formation of long-term social landscapes, ancient nomadic ecology, and 3D modeling with Geospatial technologies. Graduate courses include […]

Arts and Sciences Member until August 2026 Research: Theoretical nuclear physics, nuclear structure and reactions, nuclear electroweak properties, many-body methods, electron and neutrino scattering from nuclei. Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate Quantum Mechanics, Undergraduate Introduction to Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science.

Arts and Sciences Member until August 2026 Research: Purpose in life; wellbeing across the lifespan; identity development; personality and cognitive aging. Teaching: Health psychology, social gerontology, personality psychology.

McKelvey School of Engineering Member until August 2026 Research: Rational design of materials for energy, optical and electronic applications, atomic-scale modeling, electronic structure calculations, electron microscopy. Teaching: Undergraduate course on Materials Science, Graduate courses on Thermodynamics of Materials and Atomistic Modeling of Materials.

Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Neurology Kerri Morgan, PhD, OTR/L, ATP, Assistant Professor for the Program in Occupational Therapy and Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine received a Master of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Washington University and awarded a PhD in Movement Science from Washington University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship […]

Executive Director of Innovation Partnerships, Danforth Plant Science Center Stephanie Regagnon is the Executive Director of Innovation Partnerships at the Danforth Plant Science Center. In this role she is leading collaborative efforts to develop and maintain partnerships that help deliver on the Danforth Center’s mission, particularly in relation to the Center’s role in building regional […]

Retired Administrator, Washington University in St. Louis and local volunteer Ida H. Early is a Retired Administrator, previous Secretary to the Board of Trustees, and prior director of commencement at Washington University in St. Louis and a local volunteer. Strongly committed to voluntarism, she is or has been a trustee or director of Care & […]

Graduate Recruitment Specialist Taylor Yocom (b. 1992, Des Moines) holds a BFA in Photography from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Her lens-based and collage practice explores the social construction and performance of femininity. Her work has […]

COO at ImageMover, GP at Cultivation Capital Elise Miller Hoffman is a venture capital investor and startup executive with expertise leading digital health companies as an operator, board member, and investor. Elise has advised dozens of healthcare companies at all stages of the startup life cycle including idea generation, scale up, and exit. As a […]

Co-Founder and CEO of MiDoc, Inc. Dr. Linda X. Wu, DO, MBA is the co-founder and CEO of MiDoc Inc., a medical device startup that taps into the third dimension of telehealth, the physical exam. Dr. Wu started out as a systems design and human factors engineer before pursuing osteopathic medicine (DO) from the Chicago […]

Director of New Ventures, Washington University Office of Technology Dr. Karen Gheesling Mullis has 30 plus years of experience in academic and pharmaceutical R&D and serves as Director of New Ventures, in the Washington University in St. Louis Office of Technology Management.  She worked in the biotech startup space first as a Venture Partner, President […]

Professor, Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine; Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Amptify Nancy Tye-Murray is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine and the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Amptify (parent company clEAR). Capitalizing on her expertise in hearing loss and aural rehabilitation, Tye-Murray […]

Founder and CEO, Top Tutors for Us Angelica Harris recently graduated from WashU earning three degrees. She holds a Master’s in Computer Science, as well as two undergraduate degrees: one in Finance from the Olin Business School and the other in Computer Science from the McKelvey School of Engineering.   In the fall of 2022, Angelica […]

Founding General Partner, THENA Capital Meet Tatum Getty (WashU ’04), who has helped shape the health and wellness sector in both the USA and the UK through marketing, public relations, sales, and brand management positions with companies such as SoulCycle, Barry’s Bootcamp, and Tonal. Today she is an investor, having co-founded the venture capital fund […]

Emily is a PhD student in the Marketing department at Olin Business School. She studies consumer behavior and more specifically, how human beings make decisions. She is interested in understanding human behaviors and the human mind and hopes to bring forth positive changes to society. 

Mona Jawad is a PhD student in Speech and Hearing Science with a focus on applied computation. With her bioengineering background, she seeks to use machine learning to create new clinical tools and investigate patterns in audiological data. The founder of a social enterprise for deaf learners, she is also passionate about improving educational opportunities […]

Stacey Chen is a PhD student in the Movement Science PhD program housed within the Department of Physical Therapy. She graduated from University of Evansville in 2015 with a degree in Athletic Training. While pursuing her clinical degree, she concurrently worked in a biomechanics laboratory to better understand mechanisms related to musculoskeletal pain. As she […]

Alexis Rivera is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. She graduated summa cum laude from Hendrix College with a BA in Physics in 2020. While at Hendrix College, she was a mentor for the Increasing Retention and Inclusion in STEM program, which provided resources and community for students in demographics that are underrepresented in STEM. […]