Year: 2021

Xuntian Jiang at the School of Medicine received a five-year $2 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine are joining scientists around the country to conduct a study aimed at understanding how prenatal factors and early life experiences influence brain development and behavior in young children.

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found that multidrug-resistant bacteria and bacterial spores can be killed by ultrashort-pulse lasers. The findings could lead to new ways to sterilize wounds and blood products without damaging human cells.

Stacey Lynn Rentschler at the School of Medicine received a four-year $2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Washington University in St. Louis recognized faculty, alumni and friends at the annual Founders Day celebration Nov. 6 at St. Louis Union Station Hotel.

Trail cameras have captured 567 pictures of local turkeys as part of the St. Louis Wildlife Project, an effort led by scientists at Tyson Research Center and the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis.

Mark S. Weil, the E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus for Collaboration in the Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, died at his home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, Nov. 18. He was 82.

Michael Nowak, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, was awarded grants totaling $75,000 from NASA for various projects. He also received funding from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Molly Metzger, senior lecturer at the Brown School, has been named one of this year’s Hedy Epstein Memorial Open Door Awards honorees by the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council.