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Brendan Heiden, MD, a surgical resident and cardiothoracic surgery research fellow at Washington University School of Medicine, received the Harborside Endowed Merit Award from Conquer Cancer, the foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Aravind Nagulu at the McKelvey School of Engineering is co-principal investigator on a $2.4 million federal grant that will help develop filters for next-generation wireless systems.

Hillel J. Kieval, the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought in Arts & Sciences, has won the Silver Medal of the Faculty of Arts from Charles University in Prague.

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Jason Jabbari, research assistant professor with the Social Policy Institute at Washington University, received a $512,000 grant from The William T. Grant Foundation to understand if and how the Choice Neighborhood Initiative reduces racial inequalities in academic outcomes for children and youth.

Sophia Hayes, currently interim vice dean of graduate education and professor of chemistry, and William Acree, currently dean’s fellow for graduate education initiatives and professor of Spanish, soon will take on new roles that reflect their ongoing commitment to graduate education at Washington University.

Legail P. Chandler, vice chancellor for human resources at Washington University in St. Louis, was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the St. Louis Business Journal.

Sachiko Amari, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, is part of the international team that described results from the first sample-return mission to a carbonaceous asteroid, the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. The study was published June 9 in Science.

David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been elected to the Association of American Physicians.

The Office of Information Security and the Office of Resource Management have set up a vendor intake form for departments needing to work with vendors for new information technology products or services.