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The McKelvey School of Engineering has launched a new Division of Engineering Education, headed by Jay Turner, to focus on world-class education for students and tools for faculty.

Abram Van Engen, professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has won the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for “City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism.”

Jaehyung Cho, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a and a two-year $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Holobaugh Honors will celebrate Washington University community members for their advocacy for and service to LGBTQIA* communities. The ceremony will take place Nov. 11.

Roya Beheshti Zavareh, associate professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, won a three-year $203,917 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have won the 2021 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition, sponsored by the National Organization of Minority Architects.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Seven Washington University faculty members have been honored with 2021 Emerson Electric Co. “Excellence in Teaching” awards.

Glenn Davis Stone, professor of sociocultural anthropology and of environmental studies in Arts & Sciences, is part of an international team of researchers funded by the European Union to study CRISPR in agriculture and food production. Stone is co-leader of the perceptions part of the study.

Robi D. Mitra at the School of Medicine received a five-year $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand opportunities in genomic research for underrepresented students.