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Five staff members of Washington University in St. Louis will travel to South Korea in June 2015 through the Global Diversity Overseas Seminar, a professional development opportunity for staff that looks at diversity from a global perspective.

Abram C. Van Engen, PhD, assistant professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received a 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship award to do research for a book.

Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology and of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a two-year, $419,271 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Local Thermogenesis in Lymphatic Vessel/Node Function.” 


Nominations for the 2015 Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Award for Excellence in Service to Older Adults are now open to anyone within the St. Louis region who has made an outstanding contribution in service to older adults. The award is presented annually by the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, part of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.

Hillary Sale, JD, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law and professor of management at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Adjudicatory Council.

Shin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD, is a professor of developmental biology and of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Over the past three decades, his research has shed light on the processes of aging and longevity as he has sought to help people maintain better health into later years.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA) grants. The URSA program aims to encourage new groups of investigators working on new research or using new approaches to solve problems.

A pair of papers from researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are among those chosen as the best papers published by The Journal of Biological Chemistry during 2014.

Female members of the Washington University in St. Louis community are invited to register for the RAD program, a 12-hour comprehensive self-defense program which includes awareness skills as well as physical techniques. Classes will be held Feb. 7, 14 and 21 in the Village House.

Linda J. Pike, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received a four-year, $1.76 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “Signal Transduction by ErbB2/ErbB3 Oligomers.”