Huang, Whitaker win national landscape architecture honors
Weicong Huang and John Whitaker, both from the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox School, have won national honors from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Fitzpatrick receives grant for cutting-edge optical microscope
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded James Fitzpatrick a $600,000 grant to purchase a cutting-edge optical microscope for the Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging, expanding super-resolution imaging to a broader range of wavelengths.
Alston receives NIH fellow transition award
Jhullian Jamille Alston, a predoctoral trainee in biochemistry and molecular biophysics and in the laboratories of Alex Holehouse and Andrea Soranno at the School of Medicine, received a predoctoral-to-postdoctoral fellow transition award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Flu shots required for university employees
The seasonal flu vaccine is required for all Washington University employees, including faculty, staff and trainees, on the Danforth and Medical campuses by Nov. 19.
Creed honored for research involving mood, chronic pain, substance use
Meaghan Creed, assistant professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine, received the 2021 Freedman Prize from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. The prize recognizes exceptional basic research in mental illness.
Loomis to study novel molecular reaction pathways and dynamics
Richard Loomis, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $700,000 grant, with a collaborator at Marquette University, from the National Science Foundation to study highly energized molecules’ reaction pathways.
Dorothy, a publishing project, partners with New York Review of Books
Dorothy, a publishing project — the independent book publisher co-founded by Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker — has entered into a sales and distribution agreement with the New York Review of Books that will amplify its book promotion and marketing efforts. Dutton, associate professor of English, and Riker, senior lecturer in English, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University […]
BJC HealthCare to begin construction on new tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
BJC HealthCare soon will break ground on a 16-story inpatient hospital tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The new tower is an important component of BJC’s Campus Renewal, a long-term vision to transform the Medical Campus to improve the experiences of patients and families.
Roell selected for DOE research program
McKelvey School of Engineering graduate student Garrett Roell has been accepted into the Office of Science Graduate Student Research program, a prestigious research opportunity funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
Holehouse receives NSF grant
Alex Holehouse, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, along with researchers at the University of California, Merced, and the University of Wyoming, received a four-year $992,485 grant from the National Science Foundation through the new “Integrative Research in Biology” program.
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