Campus & Community

Mark Lawrence, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, received a $100,000 grant from the Optica Foundation for research into high-resolution meta-reflect arrays with low power consumption.

Thomas Kannampallil, at the School of Medicine, has received a five-year $2 million grant to study physician burnout and workload, and their effects on patient safety.

The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Patrick Crowley will develop new tools for computer science research on cellphones and explore internet communication models with two NSF grants.

Michael Nowak, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a $37,500 award from NASA.

Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics, and Kater Murch, professor of physics, both in Arts & Sciences, each will receive $1.25 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for their projects over the next five years. Both are founding members of the university’s Center for Quantum Leaps.

Kun Wang, in Arts & Sciences, was selected for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Participating Scientist Program. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will bring material from a near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, back to Earth in 2023.

Adam T. Eggebrecht at the School of Medicine received a two-year $452,702 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research brain function in children with autism.

Jennifer Wang, an assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, won a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for microtubule formation research.

Brown School social work PhD student Woodjerry Louis has been selected to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s prestigious Health Policy Research Scholars program. Louis is the only Missouri student in the cohort of 40 students from across the country.

Faculty members Song Hu and Yong Wang are teaming up to find quantitative biomarkers for clinical pain management.