Celebrating exceptional members of the WashU Community.
Founders Day is an opportunity to reflect upon the university’s many milestones and accomplishments—and the people who helped make them possible. Washington University began celebrating Founders Day in 1953 to commemorate the university’s 100th anniversary. Since then, this special event has honored WashU’s distinguished alumni, outstanding faculty, and most treasured friends.
2023 Founders Day Ceremony
Washington University celebrated our 2023 honorees on Saturday, November 4.
2023 Honorees
Robert S. Brookings Award
Peggy Newman, AB ’72,
JD ’76, and Andy Newman
Distinguished Alumni Award
George P. Bauer, BS ’53,
MS ’59
Chairman and CEO
GPB GROUP, LTD.
Andrew Chee-Yuen Chan,
MD ’86, PhD ’86
Senior Vice President for Research Biology
GENENTECH
Andrea J. Grant, AB ’71,
JD ’74
Senior Counsel
DLA PIPER
Nina Leigh Krueger,
MBA ’94
CEO
NESTLE PURINA PETCARE NORTH AMERICA
Harry V. Moppins, Jr.,
BS ’67
Director of Music (retired)
WOODLAWN CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Distinguished Faculty Award
Eva M. Aagaard, MD
Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Professor of Medical Education
Senior Associate Dean for Education
Vice Chancellor for Medical Education
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST. LOUIS
John Hendrix
Kenneth E. Hudson Professor of Art
Chair, Master of Fine Arts in Illustration & Visual Culture program
SAM FOX SCHOOL OF DESIGN & VISUAL ARTS
Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award
Lori Setton, PhD
Lucy & Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
MCKELVEY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award
William G. Powderly, MD
J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Sciences
Larry J. Shapiro Director, Institute for Public Health
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST. LOUIS