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Dharnidharka installed as Hartmann Professor of Pediatrics

Vikas R. Dharnidharka, MD, a professor of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been installed as the Alexis F. Hartmann Sr., MD, Professor of Pediatrics. He was installed in August on the Medical Campus.

Psychology

Braver awarded MURI grant for attention control strategies research

A multi-institutional research project led by Todd Braver, a professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, received an $8.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study attention control and strategies to improve it.

Memorial for Lovie M. Haynes

A memorial for community activist Lovie M. Haynes, who died Sept. 9 at the age of 93, will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, in the Hamilton Village Garden in St. Louis’ West End neighborhood.

Public Health

Partnership key to chronic disease prevention, study finds

Responding to complex health inequities in communities requires collaborative partnerships, according to a study from the Brown School.

Awards & Notables

Boyd receives ASME early career leadership award

Emily Boyd, teaching professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2023 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Lakshmi Singh Early Career Leadership Award.

Awards & Notables

Precup wins NSF CAREER award

Martha Precup, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a project uncovering patterns in complex data.

St. Louis Region

Applications sought for Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award

Applications are being accepted for the 2024 William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award.

Appointments & Promotions

Clukies, Malik named Loeb Teaching Fellows

Lindsay Clukies, MD, an associate professor of pediatrics, and Mariam Malik, MD, an assistant professor of radiology, have been named the 2023-25 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellows at the School of Medicine.

Space

Physicist Yuan joins Simons collaboration on extreme electrodynamics

Yajie Yuan, an assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, will lead a study of plasmas in neutron star magnetospheres, as part of a new collaboration funded by the Simons Foundation.

Engineering

$3M grant funds training to harness power of AI for social, environmental challenges

Illustration of three doctoral students in the lab, field and classroom

A National Science Foundation research traineeship led by William Yeoh at the McKelvey School of Engineering will prepare investigators at the convergence of computational, environmental and social sciences.