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Durkee book named Best Edited Volume

“States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions,” written by MJ Durkee, the William Gardiner Hammond Professor of Law, was named Best Edited Volume by the American Branch of the International Law Association.

Medicine

WashU Medicine leads two major pandemic preparedness research projects

chikungunya, dengue and parainfluenza viruses

Two grants totaling $30 million a year for three years support efforts to design vaccines and drugs for understudied virus families. WashU Medicine scientists are leading the efforts.

Engineering

Understudied protein blobs have big effect on cellular function

an image of protein condensates inside a cell

Researchers from WashU and Duke University have shown that the formation of biological condensates affects cellular activity far beyond their immediate vicinity.

Awards & Notables

Two WashU faculty honored by biochemistry group

Two WashU faculty members, Benjamin Garcia and Rohit Pappu, have received annual awards from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Small business plans should include ownership transition support

Peter Boumgarden, director of Olin Business School’s Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise, discusses Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to expand the small business tax credit and other ways in which the government can support existing small businesses.

Students

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Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

Awards & Notables

Robinson, Schwarz recognized by radiation oncology society

Julie Schwarz (left) and Clifford Robinson

Two professors of radiation oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis — Clifford G. Robinson, MD, and Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD — have been named fellows of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

Appointments & Promotions

Leader of business services appointed

James Dwyer has been named vice chancellor for university business services at WashU, announced Nichol Luoma, executive vice chancellor for administration. He previously worked at Arizona State University.

Diversity & Inclusion

New NSF grant to fund faculty equity programs and new center focused on civic mindfulness

new 2D material created for next-generation electronics

The National Science Foundation recently awarded WashU a prestigious five-year ADVANCE-Institutional Transformation grant.

Appointments & Promotions

Huang named head of pathology and immunology

Eric J. Huang, MD, PhD, a renowned physician-scientist specializing in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, has been named the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and head of the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.