Campus & Community

Xiuli Liu, MD, PhD, a professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been elected president of the Chinese American Pathologists Association.

Kimberly Parker at the McKelvey School of Engineering will use a grant from the Herman Frasch Foundation for Chemical Research to better understand dicamba volatilization.

William McKinnon in Arts & Sciences received a $164,255 award from NASA and the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to support his work on a project to study Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Video communications projects produced by University Marketing and Communications at Washington University have been recognized with eight Silver Telly Awards, which honor excellence in video across all platforms.

Denise Head, professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Jeffrey Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences, both in Arts & Sciences, won a five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for work on aging and development.

The work of Washington University’s Death to Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis (DOLF) Project, which performs research in support of global efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases, has been recognized with a Public Library of Science (PLoS) collection of publications.

“Philia,” a short film by rising senior Jack Mayer, has been named Best LGBTQ Film at the 2022 Experimental Forum in Los Angeles.

Aadel A. Chaudhuri, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at Washington University School of Medicine, will receive the 2022 Michael Fry Research Award from the Radiation Research Society.

One of the top medical journals in the world, The Lancet Global Health, recently launched a new initiative focused on urban design, transport and health. Several members of the Brown School’s Prevention Research Center have taken on a lead role.

Washington University’s Michael Greenberg, Kory J. Lavine, MD. PhD, and Nathaniel D. Huebsch have received a three-year $300,000 grant from the American Heart Association to study the immune system in cardiac disease pathogenesis and repair.