Memory disorders after viral infections focus of $8.7M grant

The School of Medicine’s Robyn Klein, MD, PhD, has received an $8.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate how viruses may cause diseases of “pathological forgetting.”

A study of baseball’s beanings reveals workplace parallels

Three researchers, including two at Olin Business School, pored over 20 seasons of Major League Baseball hit-batsman statistics to reach some intriguing conclusions with implications off the field and in the office.

White clover’s toxic tricks traced to its hybridization

White clover is a weed that grows the world over. Biologist Kenneth M. Olsen in Arts & Sciences discovered how white clover developed its anti-herbivory superpower with input from both of its seemingly innocuous parents.

Physicist Mukherji to study cellular design

Understanding how a cell commits resources to building new parts — and eventually divides into two cells — is the focus of a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for Shankar Mukherji, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences.

Notables

Kenan Omurtag, MD, an accomplished fertility specialist, educator and mentor, has been named director of reproductive endocrinology and infertility in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the School of Medicine.

Research Wire

Jonathan Myers in Arts & Sciences and William Farfan-Rios, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Living Earth Collaborative, are co-authors of a study that found that trees’ physical potential to reproduce peaked or plateaued as they reached an intermediate size.

Announcements

Parking offers fall updates

The Parking and Transportation team provides updates on Danforth Campus operations for the new academic year in the team’s back-to-campus newsletter.