People

Nancy is the associate provost for institutional effectiveness. She collaborates with senior university leaders, including the provost, vice provosts, deans, and other key stakeholders, to promote academic excellence and advance the university’s strategic priorities. She leads the Office of Data Governance, Institutional Research and Analysis, external reporting, as well as planning and evaluation processes. Nancy is […]

Charisse provides professional and technical leadership to the provost and the chief of staff on projects to support the academic initiatives of the university and leads priority projects that are critical to the Office’s success and growth. Charisse is a native of Wisconsin, where she earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in education.

Research: Studies at the confluence of Electrochemical Engineering and Materials Science, with an emphasis on electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Teaching: Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Electrochemical Engineering, Energy Conversion and Storage, and Chemical Reaction Engineering.

School of Medicine Member until August 2025 Research: Hearing loss prevention and improving intervention outcomes, improving access to hearing health care. Teaching: Graduate courses in audiology and deaf education, graduate research mentorship.

Arts & Sciences Member until August 2025 Research: Cultural history; popular and material culture; public space and state formation in Latin America; collective identities. Teaching: Courses focused on the cultural history of the Americas; the impacts of cultural goods and activities on politics, identities, and public life; and research methods and professional writing.

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S) Member until August 2026 Research: Environmental microbes & processes. Professor Bose’s lab generates new ways of addressing issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, pollution, human health, sustainability and the circular economy. Teaching: Undergraduate course in microbiology and graduate course in experimental design and critical thinking.

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S) Member until August 2024 Research: Cellular and circuit level neuroscience, neuropharmacology. Teaching: Graduate and postdoctoral apprenticeships,  graduate neuroscience, graduate research fundamentals, phase 1 medical curriculum.

McKelvey School of Engineering Member until August 2026 Research: Super-resolution microscopy; nanoscale sensing; single-molecule spectroscopy; optimal design, detection, and estimation. Teaching: Undergraduate classes on applied linear algebra and electromagnetics, graduate course on modern optical imaging.

As vice provost and university librarian, Mimi Calter oversees Washington University Libraries and its staff of expert librarians, curators, and archivists. She is charged with strengthening print and digital collections; developing programming in support of research, teaching, and learning; and collaborating with scholars on- and off-campus.

Mary McKay is an executive vice provost. The mission of her role is to intensely collaborate with all vice provosts and senior administrative leaders to align activities, resources, and efforts towards the guiding vision of the provost and the chancellor for academic distinction. Leveraging the strategic direction provided by the Here and Next People Pillar, she […]

Social Work | Entering Year: 2021 Yadira (Yadi) Tejeda was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA in sociology and master’s in social work from California State University, Northridge. Yadi will be a 2nd year doctoral student at the Brown School of Social Work. Yadi’s field experience includes working as a […]

Education | Entering Year: 2021 Maegan uses mixed methods approaches to study motivational interventions for students and teachers, as well as resilience and belonging, to support positive academic performance and psychosocial wellbeing outcomes for school communities.

Hispanic Studies | Entering Year: 2021 Nayive Gaytán is originally from Southern California and spent most of her adolescence in south Texas. She studied history and Spanish at Emory University where her honors research on regional tourism, an iconic cultural product, and Mexican national identity was supported by fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Fox […]

Molecular Cell Biology | Entering Year: 2021 St. Louis native Wesley Agee is a doctoral student within the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) program. Throughout his undergraduate career he has participated in research opportunities spanning from his initial introduction in plant science to working in Drosophila model systems. His interest is in all facets of biomedical research […]

History | Entering Year: 2020 Bridget Kelly is a third year PhD student of International Urban History who researches Black suburbanization in postbellum American cities. In her dissertation, Bridget conducts a comparative study of three suburban neighborhoods located in Tennessee, Missouri, and Georgia, built for Black American settlement in the final decade of the nineteenth […]

Diana is Senior Director Institutional Effectiveness. She leads the implementation of the IE strategy and oversees IE operations. She works in partnership with the Associate Provost for IE and the Executive Vice Provost to provide leadership and expertise to advance the Provost’s and WashU’s mission and strategic priorities. She serves as a member of the Here […]

A PhD candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Sylvia Sukop seeks to deepen her engagement with neglected histories, including the lives and work of artists and writers that speak to the challenges of our own time. The lesbian Jewish daughter of German-speaking immigrants and an advocate for LGBTQ+ equality since the 1980s, Sylvia is committed […]

Biomedical Engineering | Entering Year: 2021 Rebecca Reals is pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering.  She graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University in May 2021, where she earned a degree in Bioengineering with a concentration in Cell & Tissue Engineering and a minor in Mathematics.  While at Northeastern, she welcomed first-year students to the […]

Computational and Data Sciences | Entering Year: 2020 Abigail Lewis is pursuing a doctorate in Computational and Data Sciences. She graduated summa cum laude from Grinnell College with a degree in mathematics and statistics. While at Grinnell, Abigail operated in the math department as a peer mentor and tutor. Further, Ms. Lewis volunteered at the […]

Nursing Science | Entering Year: 2020 Brittany Ferrell is pursuing a Nursing Science PhD within an interdisciplinary program at Washington University in St. Louis and Goldfarb School of Nursing. Brittany graduated from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis in May 2020, where she earned a Master of Public Health, and earned a […]