Arts & Sciences

Courtney Reichhardt in Arts & Sciences received a $110,000 postdoc-to-faculty transition award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to continue researching the disease.

Kater Murch in Arts & Sciences and collaborators at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis won a $750,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research. 

Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman will join new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound to preview David T. Little’s opera-in-progress “What Belongs To You,” based on the novel by WashU alumnus Garth Greenwell.

Mark McDaniel in Arts & Sciences received a $30,008 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a collaborative education research project.

Gabbie Cesarone, a December Arts & Sciences graduate, was named the 2021 D3soccer.com Defender of the Year and also received a First Team All-America nod.

If President Joe Biden follows through on his promise to nominate a Black woman to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, longer-term change to the court is possible, based on voting patterns of Black female judges versus white male judges, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

Holden Thorp, the Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor and editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals, will speak at a free online event Feb. 8 focused on the intersection between science and politics.

A five-year nearly $2 million project led by biologist Erik Herzog in Arts & Sciences will use machine learning and other tools to improve understanding of how the brain is organized as a network of synchronized circadian cells.

Eight faculty members at Washington University are among 564 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Leonard Green, Elizabeth S. Haswell, Sophia E. Hayes, Erik Herzog, Mark A. McDaniel, Jay W. Ponder, Crickette Sanz and Pamela K. Woodard.

Miriam Silberman, a microbiology major in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences, won a Diversification of Our Research Scientists (D.O.O.R.S.) scholarship from Promega.