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Metzger named Open Door Awards honoree

Molly Metzger, senior lecturer at the Brown School, has been named one of this year’s Hedy Epstein Memorial Open Door Awards honorees by the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council.

Engineering

Reidentifying faces from genomic data more difficult than previously thought

Despite others’ previous claims, the lab of Yevgeniy Vorobeychik and collaborators have determined it’s not so easy for a neural network to recreate a person’s face from DNA.

Awards & Notables

Kim to research skin inflammation

Brian Kim, MD, at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research skin inflammation.

Awards & Notables

Graduate students receive NSF grants

Two graduate students working with David Strait, professor of biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences, won doctoral dissertation research grants from the National Science Foundation.

Awards & Notables

Krawczynski wins grant from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Henric Krawczynski in Arts & Sciences received a $41,255 award from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for quasar research.

Appointments & Promotions

Bhayani named director of urologic surgery

Urologic oncologist Sam Bhayani, MD, has been named to lead the Division of Urologic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine.

Engineering

Less energy, better quality PAM images with machine learning

Illustration showing a noisy image on the left and a denoised image on the right

A team of researchers led by Song Hu at the McKelvey School of Engineering has developed a two-step denoising technique for photoacoustic microscopy, a method that allows researchers to see tiny vessels in the body.

Psychology

It’s complicated: Social media and well-being during COVID-19

Man sitting at a table, doomscrolling. He's looking at his phone, looking depressed

Research from the lab of Renee J. Thompson in Arts & Sciences shows social media use associated with mixed outcomes when it comes to well-being during the pandemic.

Students

Senior Young was a Rhodes Scholar finalist

Washington University in St. Louis senior Kennedy Young was a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She has devoted her years at Washington University to studying the history of mass incarceration and working directly with those in the prison system today.

Campus & Facilities

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Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.