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To help advance fight against vision loss, Fort pledges $15 million

Rajendra Apte (left) with Andrea Santeford

Research led by Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, at the School of Medicine, is the focus of a $15 million pledge from philanthropist Jeffrey T. Fort to accelerate research and develop new treatments for diseases that cause vision loss.

Awards & Notables

Williams named among top undergrad business professors by Poets & Quants

Elanor Williams, an associate professor of marketing at Olin Business School, has been selected as one of the 2023 Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants for Undergrads.

Engineering

Parker receives Morgan Early Career Award

Kimberly Parker, an assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, won the 2024 James J. Morgan Early Career Award from the American Chemical Society.

Obituaries

Peter R. Phillips, professor emeritus of physics, 92

Peter R. Phillips, a professor emeritus of physics in Arts & Sciences, died Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in St. Louis. He was 92 years old.

Medicine

‘Long flu’ has emerged as a consequence similar to long COVID

New research from the School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System comparing the viruses that cause the flu and COVID-19 shows that people hospitalized with seasonal influenza also can suffer long-term negative health effects.

Engineering

Meta-learning to find every needle in every haystack

A visual active search tool developed by Nathan Jacobs, Anindya Sarkar and Yevgeniy Vorobeychik at the McKelvey School of Engineering combines deep reinforcement learning with traditional active search methods.

Awards & Notables

University Marketing & Communications nominated for two Regional Emmy Awards

Rajesh Singh (left) is a research scientist in the Bose laboratory. Here, he collects a sample of soil along the shoreline at Ellis Island. Washington University biologists are searching for beneficial microbes in the wetlands. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)

A University Marketing & Communications team was nominated for two 2023 Mid-America Regional Emmy awards by the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Obituaries

Janis Schade, longtime facilities staff member, 63

Janis Lea Morris Schade, a 25-year employee in Facilities Planning & Management at Washington University in St. Louis, died at her home Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. She was 63.

Campus & Facilities

State of the School of Medicine address set for January

School of Medicine Dean David H. Perlmutter, MD, will give his annual State of the School Address in person Jan. 23 and Jan. 26 on the Medical Campus. Faculty and staff are invited to register to attend in person or online.

Awards & Notables

Kulkarni recognized for research into complement system

Hrishikesh S. Kulkarni, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the School of Medicine, has received the 2023 Svar Complement Excellence Award from the International Complement Society and life sciences company Svar.