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St. Louis Region

‘This program changes people’

The Washington University Prison Education Project held its 2022 commencement ceremony May 25 at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, Mo. Fourteen students earned associate in arts degrees and four earned bachelor’s in integrated studies degrees.
Campus & Facilities

IT vendor intake form established

The Office of Information Security and the Office of Resource Management have set up a vendor intake form for departments needing to work with vendors for new information technology products or services.
Engineering

Where are the particles over the oceans from?

Jian Wang, professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will lead a research team that will analyze field study data to better understand how aerosol particles form over open oceans and their impact on cloud properties with a three-year $457,778 National Science Foundation grant.
Awards & Notables

Williamson to study families affected by Zika

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K. Eliza Williamson, a lecturer in Arts & Sciences, was awarded a postdoctoral fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to research families raising children diagnosed with Zika syndrome in Brazil. Williamson is also the incoming senior book reviews editor for American Ethnologist.
Awards & Notables

Researchers receive NSF grant

Joan Strassmann and David Queller, both in Arts & Sciences, received a $141,578 supplemental award from the National Science Foundation for research on amoeba-bacteria cooperation.