Campus & Community

Michael Nowak, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a $37,500 award from NASA.

Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics, and Kater Murch, professor of physics, both in Arts & Sciences, each will receive $1.25 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for their projects over the next five years. Both are founding members of the university’s Center for Quantum Leaps.

Kun Wang, in Arts & Sciences, was selected for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Participating Scientist Program. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will bring material from a near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, back to Earth in 2023.

Evelyn Ngugi, aka “Evelyn From the Internets,” has been posting her hilarious and heartfelt videos for almost a decade. She will give a talk Thursday, Nov. 3, on the Danforth Campus.

The Washington University in St. Louis Office of Information Security has completed its 2022 update of information security policies, and they are available for review.

Open enrollment to change or re-enroll for 2023 benefits, including health insurance, for Washington University faculty, staff and trainees will take place Nov. 1-16.

Adam T. Eggebrecht at the School of Medicine received a two-year $452,702 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research brain function in children with autism.

Jennifer Wang, an assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, won a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for microtubule formation research.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

University employees can join colleagues at United Way of Greater St. Louis pop-up events benefiting area children Tuesday, Oct. 25, on the Danforth Campus, and Wednesday, Oct. 26, on the Medical Campus.