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Parking and Transportation Services reminds the WashU community about Danforth Campus parking permit availability and Metro U-Pass registration, and provides an update on summer construction work.

Colin A. Martin, MD, a specialist in intestinal rehabilitation surgery and an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in surgery, has been named director of the Division of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine.

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, an associate professor at the Brown School, has been named the Sojourner Truth in Racial & Social Justice Visiting Professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work for the 2023-24 academic year.

Kristen Prufrock, in the Department of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine, is teaming up with anatomists from several other institutions to identify the cellular principles governing how facial bones take shape.

Biologist Matthew Austin in Arts & Sciences published a study in the American Journal of Botany that describes changes to the flowering time and other important life cycle events in Leavenworthia species, a group of small flowering plants found in glades in Missouri.

In a study published in Medical Physics, researchers in the lab of Abhinav Jha at the McKelvey School of Engineering evaluated artificial intelligence techniques for cleaning up medical images based on performance in clinical tasks.

John A. Cooper, MD, PhD, a professor in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, received a one-year $613,251 grant from National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Philip H. Dybvig, a banking and finance expert at Olin Business School, was a key speaker at the 2023 Asian Leadership Conference, Korea’s premier international conference, in May.

Maggie Mullen, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine, has been selected to participate in the National Cancer Institute’s 2023 Early-Stage Surgeon Scientist Program Cohort of Surgeon Scientists.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, William Yeoh at the McKelvey School of Engineering will use artificial intelligence to develop a fair, equitable and efficient scheduling system for courts.