Campus & Community

Aravind Nagulu at the McKelvey School of Engineering is co-principal investigator on a $2.4 million federal grant that will help develop filters for next-generation wireless systems.

Hillel J. Kieval, the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought in Arts & Sciences, has won the Silver Medal of the Faculty of Arts from Charles University in Prague.

Jason Jabbari, research assistant professor with the Social Policy Institute at Washington University, received a $512,000 grant from The William T. Grant Foundation to understand if and how the Choice Neighborhood Initiative reduces racial inequalities in academic outcomes for children and youth.

Legail P. Chandler, vice chancellor for human resources at Washington University in St. Louis, was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the St. Louis Business Journal.

David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been elected to the Association of American Physicians.

David Strait and Yeganeh Sekhavati, both in Arts & Sciences, won a $26,037 grant from the National Science Foundation to support doctoral dissertation research.

Jian Wang, professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will lead a research team that will analyze field study data to better understand how aerosol particles form over open oceans and their impact on cloud properties with a three-year $457,778 National Science Foundation grant.

Philip Ruzycki, an assistant professor at the School of Medicine, received a $350,000 career development award from Research to Prevent Blindness.

K. Eliza Williamson, a lecturer in Arts & Sciences, was awarded a postdoctoral fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to research families raising children diagnosed with Zika syndrome in Brazil. Williamson is also the incoming senior book reviews editor for American Ethnologist.

Joan Strassmann and David Queller, both in Arts & Sciences, received a $141,578 supplemental award from the National Science Foundation for research on amoeba-bacteria cooperation.