Arts & Sciences

Ilaria Patania, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, received a $25,000 research grant from The Leakey Foundation.

Fangqiong Ling at the McKelvey School of Engineering and Likai Chen in Arts & Sciences developed a machine learning model that uses the assortment of microbes found in wastewater to tease out how many individual people they represent. Their study was published in PLOS Computational Biology.

Recent Chinese protests over COVID-19 restrictions provided a blueprint for future activism to prevent government from infringing on civil liberties, says Zhao Ma, associate professor of modern Chinese history and culture in Arts & Sciences. That could spell trouble for President Xi’s administration.

Cindy Brantmeier, a professor of applied linguistics and of global studies in Arts & Sciences, shared her research, which examined the challenges of functional health literacy for language-diverse patients across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Washington University is now a part of the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases Consortium, and received a subcontract award of up to $50,000 from Seattle Children’s Research Institute in support of a course on protein bioinformatics.

Richard D. Vierstra, the George and Charmaine Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology, received a four-year $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue his project titled “Phytochromes: Structural Perspectives on Photoactivation and Signaling.”

Brett Wick, a professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, , has been appointed Dean’s Fellow for Digital Transformation.

Physicist Johanna Nagy in Arts & Sciences chases traces of “the beginning of the universe” using a balloon-borne instrument that will be launched in the next few weeks.

The “Divided City” initiative at Washington University in St. Louis awarded community grants to seven recipients in the St. Louis metro area to support community work or creative practice related to urban segregation.

Colleen McDermott, a junior environmental analysis major in Arts & Sciences, discussed working with the “Humans of Tyson” project at Tyson Research Center during the recent 2022 Kansas and Missouri Environmental Education Conference.