Campus & Community

Senior Abdullah Kuziez, 21, has received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which provides American students the opportunity to earn an advanced degree in the United Kingdom. Kuziez plans to study biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford as part of his ongoing search for cancer treatments that are both effective and accessible. 

Henric Krawczynski and Johanna Nagy, in the Department of Physics in Arts & Sciences, received a two-year $459,050 award from NASA to test an array of quantum sensors on a one-day balloon flight to launch from New Mexico in 2023.

Bronwen Konecky, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, won a $239,375 award from the National Science Foundation.

Katharina Lodders, research professor, and Bruce Fegley, professor, both in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, won a $505,505 grant from the National Science Foundation for stellar chemistry research.

Washington University in St. Louis faculty from the School of Medicine and the McKelvey School of Engineering have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction reserved solely for academic inventors.

Cyrus A. Raji, assistant professor of radiology and of neurology at the School of Medicine, received a one-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Linda J. Pike, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD, professor of medicine and the Mabel Dorn Reeder Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, has received the 2022 John C. Gienapp Distinguished Service Award.

David Alan Hunstad, MD, professor of pediatrics and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for UTI research.

Anya Plutynski, associate professor of philosophy in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2021 Lakatos Award for her 2018 book “Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder.”