Campus & Community

Todd Braver, a professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, received a $442,135 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study aging effects on the neural coding of proactive and reactive cognitive control.

The American Medical Informatics Association has elected three faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine — Joanna Abraham, Randi Foraker and Po-Yin Yen — fellows of the organization’s American College of Medical Informatics.

A $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will support Shantanu Chakrabartty, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, as he works to develop GPS-free, encrypted self-powered communications.

Seven Washington University faculty members have been selected as Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recipients.

Rita Parai, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, won a $450,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

For the second time this year, Chenyang Lu, an internationally recognized leader in cyber-physical systems, has received recognition for a trailblazing paper. The award recognizes his 2010 paper on using wireless sensor networks in a hospital environment.

The American College of Physicians has recognized three faculty members at the School of Medicine with national awards honoring excellence and distinguished contributions to internal medicine.

Alexander Hatoum, a research assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, won a five-year $897,120 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

A University Marketing & Communications team won a 2022 Regional Emmy Award Oct. 29, and received two additional nominations, from the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Lindsay Stark, a professor at the Brown School, has received a one-year $435,000 grant from UNICEF for a project titled “Intervention Review and Implementation Research to Address Gender-based Violence in Emergencies.”