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Adam Joseph Bloom, assistant professor of genetics and of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.9 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A memorial service in celebration of the life of former university trustee Mel Brown will be held at 11 a.m. Oct. 23 in Graham Chapel.

Monica J. Allen, vice chancellor and general counsel at Washington University, is being honored by Missouri Lawyers Media for her work with a Women’s Justice Award.  

The Women’s Society of Washington University invites undergraduate and graduate female students at the university to attend the virtual “Ida H. Early Composing a Life: Women Inspiring Women” event at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19.

The Women’s Society of Washington University funding committee invites undergraduate students to submit project funding requests.The deadline is Nov. 1.

The Beyond Boundaries program invites WashU juniors and seniors to apply to Creative Collaborations, which provides grants of up to $1,000 to students who work together to produce a creative capstone project such as a book, social enterprise or fashion line.

Matthew A. Cruz, a predoctoral scholar in biochemistry and molecular biophysics and in the laboratory of Gregory Bowman at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $95,910 fellowship award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

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.

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.