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Lateef wins grant to study Afrocentric strengths in Black youth education

Husain Lateef, assistant professor at the Brown School, has been awarded a two-year, $49,821 grant from the Brady Education Foundation to study the influences of Afrocentric cultural strengths in Black youth education.

Advancement

Yang installed as Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics

Li Yang was installed as the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Yang delivered an installation address titled “Exploring Quantum Mechanics at Nanoscale with Petascale Computing.”

Academics

‘Here and Next’ funding supports, expands WashU research locally, globally

WashU continues to fund local and global research excellence through “Here and Next,” its strategic plan.

Neuroscience & Memory

Grant supports resources for the brain imaging community

Adam Eggebrecht, an associate professor of radiology at WashU Medicine, received $4 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to disseminate powerful cloud-based resources to the brain mapping community.

Law

Can Trump bypass Senate approval of controversial Cabinet nominees?

Senate building on red and blue background

Andrea Katz, an expert on presidential power at WashU Law, says Trump’s threats to bypass Senate approval of controversial Cabinet nominees could turn the process on its head.

Art & Design

‘Seeds: Containers of a World to Come’ at Kemper Art Museum

In February, the Kemper Art Museum will present “Seeds: Containers of a World to Come.” The exhibition features recent works and new commissions by 10 nationally and internationally known artists for whom the seed is the kernel, both literally and metaphorically, for their investigations.

Awards & Notables

Nine WashU faculty recognized among top St. Louis educators

Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award graphic

Nine WashU faculty members in four schools have been selected as 2024 Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recipients.

Cancer Research

Probiotic delivers anticancer drug to the gut

Researchers at WashU Medicine engineered a yeast probiotic to deliver immunotherapy to the gut where it reduced gastrointestinal tumors in mice, offering a potentially novel strategy to target hard-to-reach gut cancers.

Public Health

Study reveals COVID-19’s impact on global city mobility

COVID-19 reshaped mobility patterns worldwide, affecting walking, driving and public transit use, finds a new study published in The Lancet Public Health. The research, led by an international team including some Brown School researchers, analyzed data from nearly 300 cities to understand how urban transportation habits adapted during the pandemic.

Awards & Notables

Halvorsen awarded travel grant to Karolinska Institute in Stockholm

Cal J. Halvorsen, an associate professor at the Brown School, has been awarded a visiting scholar grant to spend 10 weeks at the renowned Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in summer 2025.