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Sarah Negron, a 2014 Arts & Sciences graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, is the recipient of the Regional Arts Commission’s prestigious Katherine Dunham Internship.

Faculty members in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have received prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation.

Shashikant Kulkarni, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received an award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry for excellence in partnering in “Next Generation Sequencing — Standardization of Clinical Testing.”

Starting Feb. 25 and continuing for about two months, the intersection of Duncan and Newstead avenues will close as a Metropolitan Sewer District storm sewer line upgrade continues. Sections of Duncan east of Newstead have been closed during the project but will reopen when the intersection closes. Boyle is expected to reopen this spring.

Abram C. Van Engen, PhD, assistant professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received a 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship award to do research for a book.

Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology and of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a two-year, $419,271 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Local Thermogenesis in Lymphatic Vessel/Node Function.” 


Nominations for the 2015 Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Award for Excellence in Service to Older Adults are now open to anyone within the St. Louis region who has made an outstanding contribution in service to older adults. The award is presented annually by the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, part of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.

Hillary Sale, JD, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law and professor of management at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Adjudicatory Council.

A pair of papers from researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are among those chosen as the best papers published by The Journal of Biological Chemistry during 2014.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA) grants. The URSA program aims to encourage new groups of investigators working on new research or using new approaches to solve problems.