Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Hillary Sale, JD, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law and professor of management at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Adjudicatory Council.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA) grants. The URSA program aims to encourage new groups of investigators working on new research or using new approaches to solve problems.

A pair of papers from researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are among those chosen as the best papers published by The Journal of Biological Chemistry during 2014.

Linda J. Pike, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received a four-year, $1.76 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “Signal Transduction by ErbB2/ErbB3 Oligomers.”

At last month’s Board of Trustees meeting, several Washington University in St. Louis faculty members from the School of Medicine were promoted with tenure.

Mabel Moraña, PhD, the William H. Gass Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association of America.

Weikai Li, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a two-year, $143,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Mechanism of VKOR Function and Warfarin Inhibition.”

Andrew Gott, teacher of applied music, bassoon, and Adrianne Honnold, teacher of applied music, saxophone, both in Arts & Sciences, were featured in recent performances with the St. Louis Symphony.

Linda Hack has been named director of benefits and compensation in Human Resources at Washington University in St. Louis, effective Nov. 1, 2014.

David M. Ornitz, PhD, MD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the March of Dimes Foundation for research titled “Mechanisms of FGF Signaling in Cochlear Development.”