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Taghert awarded $1.9 million Outstanding Investigator Award

Paul Taghert, a professor of neuroscience at the School of Medicine, received an Outstanding Investigator Award of nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences to study how the circadian clock orchestrates multiple biological cycles that operate at different phases.

Biology

Biology students win annual awards

Six exceptional undergraduates were recognized with Department of Biology awards, including a new prize named in honor of Garland Allen, who advocated for racial and gender equality in the biological sciences.

Campus & Community

05.10.23

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Academics

Academic integrity work progresses

Washington University is moving ahead with plans to centralize the undergraduate academic integrity process. The university community may offer feedback regarding proposed changes until Sept. 1.

Engineering

Study shows similarity between solid state and liquid state electrolytes used in batteries

Research led by Peng Bai at the McKelvey School of Engineering is the first to show that a solid-state electrolyte has a high level of similarity to liquid electrolytes, which is good news for designing safer and more efficient solid-state batteries based on reliable mechanistic knowledge.

Literature

Phillips wins Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Carl Phillips, a professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Phillips received the honor for his latest collection, “Then The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.” The prizes were announced May 8.

Physical Sciences

Squeezing rocks for science

A powerful WashU-built device can squeeze and twist rocks with 100 tons of force. Geologist Philip Skemer in Arts & Sciences explains how his group is using the apparatus to better understand processes that affect the evolution of planets.

Campus & Facilities

Flags lowered in memory of Texas shooting victims

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff until sunset Thursday, May 11, as a mark of respect for those killed in the shooting May 6 in Allen, Texas.

Engineering

Jha wins NSF CAREER award for imaging research

Abhinav Jha, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop approaches for list-mode imaging that improve information collection.

Awards & Notables

Four inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University to recognize outstanding scholarly achievement, recently inducted four doctoral candidates from Washington University.