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The St. Louis Rams have selected Virginia Braxs, senior lecturer in Romance languages and literatures in Arts & Sciences, as a recipient of the NFL Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award.

Raj Jain, PhD, professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, was selected to receive a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Alumni Association, among other honors.

The intersection of Duncan and Boyle avenues closed Sept. 15 for the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) project to upgrade the Duncan Avenue storm sewer. The closure has resulted in a number of employees using the CORTEX parking lot as a detour, even though the lot has not been designated as one. Employees are encouraged to use Newstead or Taylor avenues instead of Boyle Avenue and the CORTEX lot to access parking garages and lots.

The U.S. Department of Education has increased its contribution to the federal work-study program, making hiring a qualified student even more affordable for university departments. The U.S. Department of Education now covers 50 percent of a student’s pay, up from 45 percent. The university department pays the rest.

Ross C. Brownson, PhD, professor at the Brown School and at the School of Medicine, has been awarded a $365,600 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute for his project “A Cross-country Comparison of Evidence-based Prevention of Cancer.”

Kelli VanDussen, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the (Thaddeus) Stappenbeck Lab, has received a three-year, $174,750 grant from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America for research titled “Defining The Basis of Epithelial Defects in Crohn’s Disease Patients.”

Felicia Ausbury, senior associate director in Alumni Relations at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, at her home in St. Charles, Mo., after battling cancer for more than a year. She was 42.

A Higher Learning Commission peer review team will be at Washington University in St. Louis Sept. 22-24. The team will conduct an on-site evaluation and meet with faculty, staff and students.

Six energy, environmental and chemical engineering faculty in the School of Engineering & Applied Science have received nearly $1.8 million in three-year grants from the National Science Foundation to work toward creating a cleaner, safer environment.

H. Holden Thorp, PhD, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, has appointed an eleven-member committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science. Ralph S. Quatrano, PhD, announced last week that he will step down as dean at the end of the academic year, June 30, 2015.