Research Wire

Laura Escobar Vega, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, won a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation for her project “Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry: Flag Varieties, Toric Geometry and Applications.”

The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Philip Bayly and a team of collaborators will study the mechanical causes behind traumatic brain injury using models and images.

WashU’s Deana Barch will use a $753,181 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand healthy neurodevelopment.

Alvitta Ottley, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use a $528,223 National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop personalized visual analytic tools.

A new resonator system discovered in the labs of Lan Yang and Xuan “Silvia” Zhang at the McKelvey School of Engineering can interact with never-before-accessible ranges in the electromagnetic spectrum. The research was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Rohan Mishra, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use a $588,795 National Science Foundation CAREER award to discover and develop novel semiconductors.

Kristin Van Engen in Arts & Sciences received a grant from the National Science Foundation to research and better understand communication when accents are involved.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded funding to Tammy English and Renee Thompson in Arts & Sciences for research to better understand emotion and aging.

Eric Galburt, associate professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research DNA repair.

Biologist Susanne S. Renner in Arts & Sciences assembled and edited 15 papers that synthesize and challenge the current understanding of how plants separate into male and female functions for Philosophical Transactions B, published by The Royal Society.