Campus & Community

The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic was recently awarded a $100,000 grant for 2022 by the Taxpayer Advocate Service, an independent branch of the Internal Revenue Service. 

Gregory R. Bowman at the School of Medicine received a one-year $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Alzheimer’s disease research.

Xuntian Jiang at the School of Medicine received a five-year $2 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Stacey Lynn Rentschler at the School of Medicine received a four-year $2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Washington University in St. Louis recognized faculty, alumni and friends at the annual Founders Day celebration Nov. 6 at St. Louis Union Station Hotel.

Trail cameras have captured 567 pictures of local turkeys as part of the St. Louis Wildlife Project, an effort led by scientists at Tyson Research Center and the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis.

Mark S. Weil, the E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus for Collaboration in the Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, died at his home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, Nov. 18. He was 82.

Michael Nowak, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, was awarded grants totaling $75,000 from NASA for various projects. He also received funding from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Molly Metzger, senior lecturer at the Brown School, has been named one of this year’s Hedy Epstein Memorial Open Door Awards honorees by the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council.