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As part of Active Transportation Month in April, the Sustainability, Parking & Transportation, and Operations & Facilities Management offices are hosting commuter fairs and a commuter challenge to encourage low-carbon means of transportation. 

Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Developmental Biology at the School of Medicine, is to receive the 2023 Edwin G. Conklin Medal from the Society for Developmental Biology.

A new research project at Washington University will study the history of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans in St. Louis. The project, “Asia in St. Louis: A Story Map Dedicated to the Greater Saint Louis Community,” won a $10,000 grant from the Missouri Humanities council.

Anika Walke, the Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professor in Arts & Sciences, has won a Marie Sklodowska-Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship to study at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

The Women’s Society of Washington University is hosting the annual Adele Starbird Lecture featuring Penny Pennington, managing partner at Edward Jones, at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 12, in Knight Hall’s Emerson Auditorium. The event will also be livestreamed.

In a newly published study, poverty was closely associated with higher rates of dementia among older adults in Afghanistan. Jean-Francois Trani, an associate professor at the Brown School, led the research.

Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2023 René Wellek Prize for best monograph from the American Comparative Literature Association.

Three School of Medicine researchers — Enmanuel Perez, Ibrahim Saliu and Steffen Storck — have received funding from the Alzheimer’s Association for projects that aim to study and make progress against the disease.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Shantanu Chakrabartty’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering developed a method to better secure communications and transactions involving the Internet of Things.