Research Wire

Richard D. Vierstra, the George and Charmaine Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology, received a four-year $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue his project titled “Phytochromes: Structural Perspectives on Photoactivation and Signaling.”

Ning Zhang, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, plans to develop new defense tactics for blockchain with a four-year $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. 

A new imaging technology from the lab of Matthew Lew at the McKelvey School of Engineering uses reflection and refraction to more directly see molecules’ orientation and position.

Dozens of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis were named to the Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list by Clarivate, an analytics company.

Two National Science Foundation grants will support the McKelvey School of Engineering’s Neal Patwari as he develops ways to optimize and safeguard the finite amount of radio spectrum bandwidth.

Jason Jabbari, of the university’s Social Policy Institute, received a $325,373 grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to examine social mobility and equity in certificate and apprenticeship programs.

Vladimir Birman, an associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, won a $110,000 award from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund.

Alex Chen, Saori Pastore, Maria Piarulli and Yajie Yuan, all in Arts & Sciences, will pursue transformational advances in their fields using the Department of Energy’s leadership-class supercomputers.

Manel Errando in Arts & Sciences is part of a team that determined that particle acceleration within black hole jets is best explained by a shock wave within the jet.

Patrick Hill, in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $237,970 grant from Velux Stiftung, a Swiss science-funding foundation, for research on future time perspective as a motivator for healthy aging practices.