Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Six energy, environmental and chemical engineering faculty in the School of Engineering & Applied Science have received nearly $1.8 million in three-year grants from the National Science Foundation to work toward creating a cleaner, safer environment.

Keke Fairfax, PhD, research instructor in pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, has received a four-year, $308,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Understanding the Development of the Liver B Cell Compartment During Schistosomiasis: Development of a Novel Vaccine.”

Washington University in St. Louis will pause today to remember the lives lost in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The university and U.S. flags will be lowered to half-staff, and the chimes in Graham Chapel will toll at 9:28 a.m., the time the World Trade Center’s North Tower collapsed.

Douglas A. Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to receive the 2014 Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody Award in Ocean Sciences.

Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD, associate professor of pathology and immunology, of genetics and of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases for research titled “High-Throughput Functional Analysis of Non-Coding Regions Related to Arrhythmias.”

The Olin Business School community celebrated the new school year’s start Aug. 25 with a ribbon cutting of the renovated Simon Hall and its traditional back-to-school barbecue to cap the day — with a twist this time, as Dean Mahendra Gupta, PhD, endured the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Rebecca Treiman, PhD, the Burke & Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Developmental Psychology in Arts & Sciences, received the 2014 Society for the Scientific Study of Reading’s Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, given every two years for outstanding contributions to the field.

Prajakta Khare-Ranade, a clinical researcher and dietitian in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine, won an annual essay competition overseen by the Wimpfheimer-Guggenheim Fund for International Exchange in Nutrition, Dietetics and Management, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Students head from the South 40 to their first day of class for the fall semester on Aug. 25.

Washington University in St. Louis Emergency Management Services has launched a new easy-to-use, mobile-friendly website. Features include a color-coded bar that changes from green to red in case of emergency and advisories from the National Weather Service.