Research Wire

Kimberly Parker at the McKelvey School of Engineering will use a grant from the Herman Frasch Foundation for Chemical Research to better understand dicamba volatilization.

Fuzhong Zhang, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use a National Science Foundation grant to more closely study the muscle fiber titin, along with other exotic materials.

William McKinnon in Arts & Sciences received a $164,255 award from NASA and the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to support his work on a project to study Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Joshua Yuan and collaborators have developed a plant-based material to help safely clean up harmful “forever chemicals.”

Denise Head, professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Jeffrey Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences, both in Arts & Sciences, won a five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for work on aging and development.

Washington University’s Michael Greenberg, Kory J. Lavine, MD. PhD, and Nathaniel D. Huebsch have received a three-year $300,000 grant from the American Heart Association to study the immune system in cardiac disease pathogenesis and repair.

Claire Masteller, in Arts & Sciences, won a $313,872 National Science Foundation grant for collaborative research that will help scientists distinguish between climate-driven change and the natural variability of river channels.

Jonathan Barnes, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, won a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate and expand efficient methods for synthesizing catenane-based polymers and networked materials.

The American Heart Association has recognized the McKelvey School of Engineering’s Jonathan Silva with its Established Investigator Award. The five-year $400,000 award will support his work into precision medicine for patients with irregular heartbeat.

A team led by Song Hu at the McKelvey School of Engineering found a way to measure biomarkers in the body with higher accuracy by combining a Bessel beam with deep learning.