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Ullman receives literary article recognition

Alex Ullman, a postdoctoral fellow in WashU’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, will receive a 2024 William Riley Parker Prize honorable mention from the Modern Language Association.

Photo Opportunity: WashU Police Department distributes bikes to children Saturday

The Washington University Police Department, in partnership with the St. Louis Police Foundation and the SLMPD’s North Patrol Division, will distribute free bicycles and gifts to some 85 children from Camp Sunsplash, a free summer camp in Fairground Park that serves lower-income families.

Medicine

Lavine receives grant to study congenital heart disease

Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Cardiology at WashU Medicine, has received a $600,000 grant from the Additional Ventures Foundation — an organization that funds research into congenital heart disease — to study hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Lanza named fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Gregory Lanza, MD, PhD, the James R. Hornsby Family Professor in Biomedical Sciences at WashU Medicine, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his application of nanotechnology to a broad variety of medical innovations.

Space

Physicist Dev awarded Humboldt research fellowship

Bhupal Dev, an associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, will analyze possible neutrino interactions with dark matter at the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics in Germany.

Cancer Research

Bagegni receives National Cancer Institute award

Nusayba Bagegni, MD, an associate professor at WashU Medicine, has been awarded a 2024 Early Career Cancer Clinical Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Mental Health

Vagus nerve stimulation relieves severe depression

People with severe, treatment-resistant depression who received vagus nerve stimulation therapy showed improvement in depressive symptoms, quality of life and ability to complete everyday tasks, according to a national clinical trial led by researchers at WashU Medicine.

Awards & Notables