Campus & Community

Kenan Omurtag, MD, an accomplished fertility specialist, educator and mentor, has been named director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine.

The Washington University in St. Louis Department of Athletics and Recreation has announced a construction project that will renovate the varsity softball and intramural field.

Joy Jiang, assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.35 million MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her project “Dynamic prediction incorporating time-varying covariates for the onset of breast cancer.”

Over the next two days, 1,994 first-year students will move onto the South 40. Among them: 17% are Pell Grant-eligible, 5% are international students and 49% identify as students of color. Another vital stat: Nearly 100% are fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.

Yong Wang, associate professor at the School of Medicine and the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received a 2021 Next Gen Pregnancy research grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for development of noninvasive imaging of uterine contractions.

Tae Seok Moon, an environmental engineer at the McKelvey School of Engineering, plans to address the global plastic waste problem with a bacterium that would upcycle the plastic into a value-added chemical. His work got a boost from a three-year $861,571 U.S. Department of Energy grant.

Ting Y. Tao, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, has been named chief of the pediatric radiology section in the university’s Department of Radiology. Tao also has assumed the role of radiologist-in-chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

The EPA visited Washington University to award $744,262 to Tae Seok Moon, associate professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, for cutting-edge biotechnology research.

Noor Riaz, MD, a pediatric hospitalist, has been named the 2021-23 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellow at the School of Medicine.