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Qin Liu, associate professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on respiratory allergies.

The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University to recognize outstanding scholarly achievement, recently inducted four WashU doctoral candidates.

The Washington University Police Department has earned reaccreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs presented outstanding mentor awards to Alexxai Kravitz, James Stroud and John Russell at the recent annual Postdoc Symposium.

Corinna Treitel, chair and professor of history in Arts & Sciences, will co-direct an exploratory seminar at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute in June 2022. With Sari Altschuler, of Northeastern University, Treitel will guide a group of 12–15 leading scholars on a discussion about “Rethinking Health and the Humanities During and After COVID-19.”

A team that includes Lee Sobotka and Robert Charity, both in Arts & Sciences, concluded that the role that neutrons play in the creation of carbon, considered the definitive building block of life, is much smaller than previously thought.

Stephen T. Oh, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.46 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for molecular hematology training.

Anika Walke and Geoff Ward, both in Arts & Sciences, won a grant from the Rubin and Gloria Feldman Family Education Institute to support their upcoming Studiolab graduate course “Memory for the Future: Theories and Practices of Critical Curation.”

William B. McKinnon and Paul Byrne, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, played important roles in developing a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. It identifies scientific priorities and funding recommendations to maximize the advancement of planetary science in the next decade.

A podcast created by two Arts & Sciences students was among 10 finalists in the “College Podcast Challenge” from National Public Radio.