Month: December 2023

he Washington University Police Department in partnership with the St. Louis Police Foundation and the SLMPD’s North Patrol Division will distribute free bicycles and gifts to some 85 children from Camp Sunsplash, a free summer camp in Fairground Park that serves lower-income families.

Gary Weil, MD, a professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, received the 2023 Kyelem Prize at the Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases’ annual meeting.

Nia Hodges, a second-year master’s student studying data analytics and statistics at the McKelvey School of Engineering, recently won a Diversity Fellowship Award from the Taylor Geospatial Institute, a collaboration that aims to advance geospatial technology.

Todd A. Fehniger, MD, PhD, and co-principal investigators Jeffrey J. Bednarski, MD, PhD, and Thomas Pfeiffer, MD, all at the School of Medicine, have received a total of $1.4 million from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Rising Tide Foundation for Clinical Cancer Research and Siteman Kids to support a clinical trial of a novel cell-based immunotherapy.

Katharine M. Flores, the Christopher I. Byrnes Professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of ASM (American Society for Metals) International for her contributions to the field of materials science and engineering.

Research led by Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, at the School of Medicine, is the focus of a $15 million pledge from philanthropist Jeffrey T. Fort to accelerate research and develop new treatments for diseases that cause vision loss.

Elanor Williams, an associate professor of marketing at Olin Business School, has been selected as one of the 2023 Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants for Undergrads.  

Kimberly Parker, an assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, won the 2024 James J. Morgan Early Career Award from the American Chemical Society.

Peter R. Phillips, a professor emeritus of physics in Arts & Sciences, died Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in St. Louis. He was 92 years old.

New research from the School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System comparing the viruses that cause the flu and COVID-19 shows that people hospitalized with seasonal influenza also can suffer long-term negative health effects.