Month: July 2023

Quing Zhu, a renowned biomedical engineer who has developed advanced imaging techniques to diagnose cancers of the reproductive system and in other areas, has been named the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering.

Philip R.O. Payne has been named an inaugural Janet and Bernard Becker Professor at the School of Medicine. He was installed by Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and David Perlmutter, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs.

Political scientists Taylor Carlson and Carly Wayne, in Arts & Sciences, won a National Science Foundation grant to study factors that drive political radicalization.

Researchers at the School of Medicine and Lund University in Sweden have identified a form of tau that could serve as a marker to track Alzheimer’s progression. The marker also could speed drug development.

Raymond Arvidson, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded an Outstanding Public Leadership Medal from NASA. The honor — his fourth service medal from the space agency — marks the culmination of a storied career in planetary exploration that goes back to the first Viking Mars landers in the 1970s.

A surgical team from the School of Medicine recently performed the first robotic liver transplant in the U.S. in May at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Washington University School of Medicine students recently honored faculty and residents with Distinguished Service Teaching Awards.

Robert Morgan, a former professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering for more than 30 years, died Monday, June 26, in Falls Church, Virginia. Morgan joined the faculty in 1968 and worked to build new research and educational activities on the social applications of technology.

The Washington University Police Department will conduct an active shooter training exercise tomorrow on the west side of the Danforth Campus near fraternity row. The training exercise is not in response to a specific threat but is a proactive measure to ensure WUPD’s preparedness.

A new analysis of fine particulate matter exposure led by researchers in Randall Martin’s lab in the McKelvey School of Engineering illuminates ways to improve health in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.