The IpsiHand, an innovative stroke-recovery device developed by a WashU startup that helps stroke patients recover arm and hand function by retraining their brains, has received the 2021 Pantheon Product of the Year Award from California Life Sciences.
A home-based health monitoring program developed by Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare has proven invaluable in helping to track the progress of patients who test positive for the virus but aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized.
A five-year nearly $2 million project led by biologist Erik Herzog in Arts & Sciences will use machine learning and other tools to improve understanding of how the brain is organized as a network of synchronized circadian cells.
Jeremy Goldbach, professor at the Brown School, has received a five-year $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project aimed at making schools safer for LGBTQ+ youth.
Graham Colditz and Su-Hsin Chang, both at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for multiple myeloma research.
Washington University Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2022 Newman Exploration Travel (NEXT) Fund, which provides travel funds of up to $10,000 per recipient. Applications are due by March 6.
Aggie Toppins, associate professor and chair of undergraduate design at the Sam Fox School, has won the 2021 SECAC Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Graphic Design.
Barcelona collaborative H ARQUITECTES will launch the Sam Fox School’s spring Public Lecture Series Feb. 3. In all, the series will feature 18 talks by nationally and internationally renowned figures, from architects Tatiana Bilbao and Thomas Phifer to artists Maya Muchawsky Parnas and Chitra Ganesh.
Eight faculty members at Washington University are among 564 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Leonard Green, Elizabeth S. Haswell, Sophia E. Hayes, Erik Herzog, Mark A. McDaniel, Jay W. Ponder, Crickette Sanz and Pamela K. Woodard.
Shantanu Chakrabartty has been named vice dean for research and graduate education at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.
