08.17.22
Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.
Andrew Jordan: using economics to improve criminal justice
Economist Andrew Jordan in Arts & Sciences uses data analytics to uncover potential bias in the criminal justice system by studying the decisions made by courts, police and prosecutors.
Safer lithium-based batteries focus of new study
Peng Bai at the McKelvey School of Engineering has received a $355,630 grant from the National Science Foundation to study safer batteries.
DiPersio receives award recognizing contributions to cancer care, research
John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, the Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Endowed Professor of Oncology and director of the Division of Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been named by OncLive as part of the Giants of Cancer Care inductee class of 2022.
Henriksen wins Office of Naval Research grant
Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $599,784 grant from the Office of Naval Research for his research project on topological qubits.
Katz named 2022 Haub Law Emerging Scholar
Elizabeth Katz, associate professor of law at Washington University School of Law, has been selected as the 2021-2022 Haub Law Emerging Scholar in Gender & Law by Pace University for her paper “Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women’s Legal Right to Hold Public Office.”
Atkinson, Wingfield receive faculty achievement awards
Adia Harvey Wingfield, in Arts & Sciences, and John Atkinson, at the School of Medicine, will receive Washington University’s 2022 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced.
A friendship for the ages
For seven Class of 1997 grads, first-year friends turned into lifelong family.
Squirrels and the city
Examining the influence of urbanization on the evolution of eastern gray squirrel
Lasting leadership
In the 1960s and ’70s, P. Roy Vagelos, MD, brought together scientists in biology and biomedicine from across the university and created two pioneering training programs. Over a half-century later, MSTP and DBBS continue to train physician-scientists, improve human health and advance medicine.
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