Research Wire

Burel R. Goodin, a professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has received more than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support postdoctoral training.

The path maize took to reach eastern North America has long been debated. A new study in the journal Cell, co-authored by Gayle Fritz in Arts & Sciences, provides clear evidence that maize traveled across the Great Plains from the Southwest.

Researchers at Washington University are working to develop an anaerobic digestion process using cyanobacterium to grow food in space.

Photonics researchers at Washington University received a federal grant to overcome a data processing bottleneck with integrated photonics.

Clarivate, an analytics company, named 47 researchers from WashU to the Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list. These scholars represent a wide variety of disciplines, including environment and ecology; immunology; neuroscience and behavior; and social sciences.

Husain Lateef, assistant professor at the Brown School, has been awarded a two-year, $49,821 grant from the Brady Education Foundation to study the influences of Afrocentric cultural strengths in Black youth education.

Adam Eggebrecht, an associate professor of radiology at WashU Medicine, received $4 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to disseminate powerful cloud-based resources to the brain mapping community. 

Cal J. Halvorsen, an associate professor at the Brown School, has been awarded a visiting scholar grant to spend 10 weeks at the renowned Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in summer 2025.

Duygu Özpolat, an assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, co-authored a study in Nature Communications about the early steps of regeneration in the annelid worm Platynereis.

Computer engineers at Washington University recently won a distinguished paper award from USENIX, a leader in computing systems research.