10.31.16
Marcus Foston, assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a three-year, $224,970 grant from the National Science Foundation to find catalysts that will break down lignin, a tough part of the cell walls of woody and grassy plants, into chemicals that can be used as building blocks for materials. The hope is to create chemicals and other materials to shift dependence on petroleum toward renewable resources. Read more on the engineering site.
10.25.16
Methodius Tuuli, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine, received $633,000 of an expected $2.9 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a study on “Prophylactic Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Obese Women at Cesarean: Multicenter Randomized Trial.” The projects aims to yield high-quality evidence on the effectiveness of such therapy in reducing surgical site infections after a cesarean section in obese women.
10.25.16
Richard D. Vierstra, the George and Charmaine Mallinckrodt Professor in biology in Arts & Sciences, received a one-year, $98,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to undertake a project titled “Molecular Dissection of the Arabidopsis 26S Proteasome.”
10.25.16
Anna Hood, a Chancellors Fellow in psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, received an $87,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a two-year research project titled “Biological Interventions to Improve Cognition in Children with Sickle Cell Disease.”
10.20.16
Bradley Evanoff, MD, the Richard and Elizabeth Henby Sutter Professor of Occupational, Industrial and Environmental Medicine at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $856,202 grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Through this funding, Washington University will become a partner with the University of Iowa and the Nebraska Safety Council in the new Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest. The center, based at the University of Iowa, is one of six centers funded by NIOSH to promote the safety and health of U.S. workers.
10.20.16
José E. Figueroa-López, associate professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year, $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project titled “A New Approach Toward Optimal and Adaptive Nonparametric Methods for High-Frequency Data.”
10.20.16
Ryan Ogliore, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received $100,000 from NASA for a field-emission scanning electron microscope that will be used to analyze samples of comets and asteroids.
10.12.16
Young-Shin Jun, associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received three grants from the National Science Foundation totaling nearly $1.03 million over three years. Jun will use the funding to study interfacial reactions that relate to energy, environmental and biomedical systems involving a variety of earth-abundant materials. Learn more on the engineering website.
10.12.16
Sarah Elgin, the Viktor Hamburger Professor of Arts & Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in biology, was awarded a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on “Repeat-Induced Heterochromatin Formation in Drosophila.”
10.12.16
Rachel D. Roberts, professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $221,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Taut Foliations and Contact Topology.”
10.12.16
Jeff Gill, professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year, $126,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project titled “Smooth National Measurement of Public Opinion Across Boundaries and Levels: A View From the Bayesian Spatial Approach.”
10.4.16
Richard Mabbs, associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received $440,000 from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study on “Electron-Molecule Temporary States: Vibronic Coupling in Excited Anions.”
10.4.16
Kater Murch, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received $320,000 from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study on “Measurement and Control in Open Quantum Systems.”