Campus & Community

Yixin Chen will work with two McKelvey School of Engineering alumni on a collaborative project with the U.S. Department of Energy and Lincoln University to improve biomanufacturing.

Catherine Lang, a professor at Washington University School of Medicine, has received a MERIT award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of her work using wearable motion sensors in stroke rehabilitation.

McKelvey School of engineering faculy Zhen (Jason) He, Young-Shin Jun, Vijay Ramani and Fuzhong Zhang will lead new projects focused on clean energy technologies thanks to $10.7 million in new funding, collectively, from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Arts & Sciences’ Calvin Lai received a $230,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to lead an interdisciplinary effort to develop discrimination interventions.

Nominations are being accepted for the Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award, which honors a local couple for extraordinary contributions to the culture and welfare of the metropolitan St. Louis area. The deadline is Oct. 31.

Sidharth V. Puram, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of otolaryngology at the School of Medicine, has received a 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

An award from Wellcome Leap will support Michelle Oyen’s study of fetal growth restriction during gestational development. The program aims to reduce stillbirth rates by half.

Maxwell Greenberg, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies in Arts & Sciences, has won a Warburg Research Grant for his work on Jewish pioneers in the American Southwest. In addition, Greenberg’s research on Jewish pioneer cemeteries will be used in Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s new project on race, religion and Judaism.

A discovery in the lab of Amit Pathak at the McKelvey School of Engineering connects mechanobiology to nuclear condensates in healthy cells.

Thomas De Fer, MD, and Victoria J. Fraser, MD, both of the School of Medicine, have been awarded mastership in the American College of Physicians, one of the highest honors available to internists.