Jacques Baenziger, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology and of cell biology & physiology, received a one-year, $500,000 National Institutes of Health Director’s Bridge Award for research titled “Oligosaccharide Structure and Function in Recognition.” …
W. Robert Binns, Ph.D., research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $916,503 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “ANITA: Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna.” …
Robert Blankenship, Ph.D., the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for research titled “Mechanism of Energy Storage by Chlorosome Antennas of Green Photosynthetic Bacteria.” …
Ken Cadwell, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research scholar, with his sponsor, Herbert W. “Skip” Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., the Mallinckrodt Professor and head of pathology and immunology, was among 17 postdoctoral scientists nationwide named a Damon Runyon Fellow in November 2007 by the Damon Runyun Cancer Research Foundation. The fellowship is intended to encourage the nation’s most promising young investigators to pursue careers in cancer research by providing them with independent funding to work on innovative projects. …
Tao Ju, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Geometric Modeling for Spatial Analysis of Bio-Medical Data.” …
Garland Marshall, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, was recently inducted into the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame’s inaugural class. The Hall of Fame recognizes medicinal chemists who have made overall outstanding contributions to medicinal chemistry through research, teaching and service. …
Barbara Schaal, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, along with researchers at New York and Cornell universities, received a four-year, $4,402,973 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “The Evolutionary Genomics of Rice Domestication.” …
Robert E. Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology and chief of the Division of Neuropathology, received a five-year, $1,276,648 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Experimental Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy.” …
Viatcheslav Solomatov, Ph.D., associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $232,975 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Martian Evolution: From Magma Oceans to Present-Day Mantle Dynamics.” …
Rebecca Treiman, Ph.D., the Burke and Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Development Psychology, and Brett Kessler, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and of philosophy-neuroscience-psychology, both in Arts & Sciences, have received a five-year, $1,453,500 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Children’s Early Knowledge of Letters and Spelling Across Languages.” …
Washington University received the 2007 Clayton Chamber of Commerce’s Cornerstone Award Jan. 29 at a ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton, Mo. The Cornerstone Award recognizes an individual or company whose contributions have had a major impact on the Clayton community. …
Weixiong Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association for research titled “Initial steps toward elucidating gene expression regulation of LOAD.”
In print
Todd Braver, Ph.D., Ian Dobbins, Ph.D., and Kathleen McDermott, Ph.D., all associate professors of psychology in Arts & Sciences, were featured as “Rising Stars” in the Association for Psychological Science’s monthly magazine, the Observer. Braver was mentioned in the October 2007 issue and Dobbins and McDermott in the November 2007 issue. …
Carter C. Revard, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences, had several poems published in the December 2007 issue of Stand Magazine, a quarterly literary magazine. “Go To College,” “Living in the Holy Land,” “Songs of the Wine-Throated Hummingbird” and “Survivance: T-Rex Defeats Colonel Sanders” were published, along with part of a science-fiction novel in progress, titled “The Visitor’s Other World.” All the pieces were previously unpublished works except for “Songs of the Wine-Throated Hummingbird,” which was reprinted from his “Winning the Dust Bowl.”