Month: June 2023

Jon Heleno, former deputy controller at Columbia University, has been appointed associate vice chancellor for finance – planning and budgets at Washington University, announced Amy B. Kweskin, executive vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer.

Nicolae Gârleanu, an expert on asset pricing, was installed as the H. Frederick Hagemann Jr. Professor of Finance at Olin Business School during a ceremony May 8.

A new study in mice led by School of Medicine researchers shows how prostate cancer creates its own hormonal fuel supply in response to anti-testosterone therapy. The study further suggests a strategy to block this process and potentially improve therapy options.

Coming off of a historic 2022-23 season, the Washington University in St. Louis women’s track and field team was awarded the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s Program of the Year.

Cindy Brantmeier, a professor of applied linguistics and global studies in Arts and Sciences, will serve on the advisory board for LANGUAGES, a language acquisition research study in England, Norway and France examining teachers’ instruction and students’ use of languages in classrooms.

Researchers in Randall Martin’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering won a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study, and improve, the accuracy and resolution of models used to understand chemicals’ behavior in the atmosphere.

William G. Powderly and Lori A. Setton will receive Washington University’s 2023 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced. 

Washington University researchers found that how children’s brains process emotional cues typically is set by the time they are school age. They studied brain scans from hundreds of children ages 5 to 15 who watched videos that dealt with emotional topics.

Dwight A. McBride, a leading scholar of race and literary studies, and president and University Professor at The New School in New York City, will join the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. His appointment is effective Aug. 15.

Physicist Sheng Ran in Arts & Sciences has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a project investigating new quantum materials. The research has potential applications for next-generation electronics.