Paul M. Allen, PhD, the Robert L. Kroc Professor of Pathology and Immunology, has received a one-year, $380,000 bridge grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “T Cell Recognition of Allogeneic Peptide/MHC Ligands.” …
Kenneth Chiou and Jessica Joganic, graduate students in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, each have received a three-year, $121,500 graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. …
Melissa Holtmeyer, graduate student in the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, has received three-year, $111,000 Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. …
William McKinnon, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $30,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Topographic Analysis of Impact Craters on Ganymede and Enceladus and Comparison to Viscous Relaxation Models.” …
David Schuman, assistant director of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, was named a winner of the 2010 St. Louis MasterMind awards. MasterMind awards are given by the Riverfront Times to four St. Louis residents working in the arts. …
Lee Sobotka, PhD, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, and Robert Charity, PhD, research professor of chemistry, have received a one-year, $306,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for research titled “Breakup of Loosely Bound Nuclei at Intermediate Energies for Nuclear Astrophysics and the Development of a Position Sensitive Microstrip Detector.”