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Tao Ju, PhD, associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $234,668 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance his work in biological informatics.

Applications for the K12 Clinical Hematology Research Career Development Program scholars are being accepted through Oct. 20.

Washington University has joined forces with Operation Food Search to collect food for Ferguson and surrounding communities. Faculty, students and staff are invited to drop off canned meat or other food items at 21 bins located throughout the Danforth Campus as well as at West Campus, North Campus and the School of Medicine. The drive, modeled after the spring food drive PB&Joy, will run through Labor Day (Sept. 1).

Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, is the first recipient of the Presidents’ Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists.

John Schael, Washington University’s longtime director of athletics retired this summer. Here’s a look back at his legacy, shared from Washington Magazine.

Lynn Hovland, former Washington University in St. Louis football coach, died Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. He was 98.

Erica Majumder, a graduate student in chemistry, won a travel grant from the American Chemical Society International Office to attend the International Symposium in Chemical Education Research in Lima, Peru, in October.

Musically talented members of the Washington University Medical Center community will be featured in a summer concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, in the lobby of the Center for Advanced Medicine.

​​The Washington University Sentinel, a new safety and security mobile app for the Danforth and Medical campuses, is now available. The app is free and provides students, faculty and staff easy access to emergency numbers, crime alerts and safety tips.

Marisa Bass, PhD, assistant professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences, received a research seed grant from the Humanities Center to fund her research in Munich in August for her new project, “Forged by Misfortune: The Art of Joris Hoefnagel in the Wake of the Dutch Revolt.”