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Zhen (Jason) He is leading a multi-institution team developing a scalable upgrade to current wastewater systems with a $2.3 million federal grant.

A center in the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences received a grant establishing the School of Medicine as a coordinating center for the Short-Term Research Experience Program to Unlock Potential. STEP-UP is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program to introduce scholars underrepresented in medicine to medical research.

Ari Stern, associate professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, won a $237,648 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Structure-Preserving Hybrid Finite Element Methods.”

Washington University Emergency Management plans to test its emergency communication system at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20.

To develop guidelines to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) in nuclear-medicine imaging, an interdisciplinary team established by Richard L. Wahl, MD, director of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) and led by Abhinav Jha, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, published Recommendations for Evaluation of AI for Nuclear Medicine in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Mitra Naseh, an assistant professor at the Brown School, has received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for a pilot study to examine economic integration among newly settled Afghan refugees.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in memory of Queen Elizabeth II until sunset the day of her interment. The queen died Sept. 8 at age 96.

Cynthia E. Rogers, MD, the Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, has been named an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine.

The Women’s Society of Washington University funding committee invites undergraduate students to submit funding requests for student-led projects. The deadline is Oct. 19.