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Two WashU PhD candidates have been selected for the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Inc. Graduate Student Fellows Program. The students, Allison Martinez Mejia and Gerson Moreno Romero, are both studying biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering. 

No-excuse absentee voting for registered voters has begun in Missouri. Voters can visit the St. Louis or St. Louis County elections websites to find sample ballots, polling locations and additional information.

McKelvey School of Engineering researchers received a federal grant to develop low-power, high-performance radar systems.

Leah Shaffer, a senior news director at WashU, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the National Association of Science Writers.

The American Cancer Society and venture capital firm Yosemite have selected five WashU faculty to receive the inaugural ACS-Yosemite research grants.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

As part of WashU’s 10-year comprehensive evaluation, the Higher Learning Commission, the institutional accreditor, will host three open forums Oct. 28 and 29 to gather input from faculty, staff and students.

Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at WashU Medicine, has been named an American Chemical Society fellow, one of 37 in this year’s class of fellows.

Peng Bai, a researcher at Washington University, has received a National Science Foundation grant to expand his work in sodium-based batteries.

Abram Van Engen, chair of the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, was recently installed as the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities.