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Ignacio Infante, PhD, assistant professor of comparative literature and of Spanish in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will have his article “Remaking Poetics after Postmodernism: Intertextuality, Intermediality and Cultural Circulation in the Wake of Borges” published in the winter 2015 issue of Comparative Literature (Duke University Press).

Carey-Ann Burnham, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a one-year, $58,750 grant from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences for research titled “Sequencing and Culture-Based Evaluation of Skin Flora Following Decolonization.”

Stephen Oh, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award and a Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, both totaling $486,000, for research titled “Targeting Aberrant Signaling Pathways in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.”

The madness of March arrives on the Washington University in St. Louis campus this week as both the men’s and women’s basketball teams are hosting opening-round games of the 2015 NCAA Division III championship tournament.

Mary Ellen Joyce, PhD, executive director of Brookings Executive Education, recently has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Mark J. Manary, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded one of three research grants from the Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences.

Washington University will test its emergency siren systems at 11 a.m. Monday, March 2, and again at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3. The tests will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.

What: Washington University and Wells Fargo Advisors (WFA) present “Innovate, Accelerate, Transform: Investing in People, Businesses and Communities,” an event showcasing the beneficial results of their unique community partnership. When: 3:30 p.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, March 3. Where: Washington University’s Danforth Campus, Knight/Bauer Hall campus map Who: Washington University students, faculty and alumni, as well as […]

Ashley Gilkey, the diversity in retention coordinator at Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning at Washington University in St. Louis, recently was selected for the 63rd class of the Coro Women in Leadership Program with Focus St. Louis.

Andrey Shaw, MD, the Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology in the Department of Pathology and Immunology and director of the Division of Immunobiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a one-year, $84,583 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Confluence Life Sciences Inc. for research titled “Development of TAK1 Inhibitors to Treat Pancreatic Cancer.”