Elizabeth Haswell, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $408,562 subaward from the California Institute of Technology for research titled “Biophysical, Structural and Functional Analysis of Mechanosensitive Channels.” …
Shirley Sahrmann, Ph.D., professor of physical therapy, of cell biology and physiology and of neurology, has been selected to receive the Richard W. Bowling-Richard E. Erhard Orthopaedic Clinical Practice Award from the Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). The award, which honors Sahrmann’s outstanding contribution to the clinical practice of orthopaedic physical therapy, will be presented at the Combined Sections Meeting of the APTA in February. …
Thaddeus Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of developmental biology, has received a two-year, $330,000 grant from The Broad Foundation for research titled “Identification of Colitogenic Bacteria in an Antibiotic-Responsive Model of Fulminant Ulcerative Colitis.” …
Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and chair of pathology and immunology and professor of molecular microbiology, has received a two-year, $330,000 grant from The Broad Foundation for research titled “In Vivo Function of Crohn’s Disease Susceptibility Gene ATG16L1 in Intestinal Inflammation.” …
Thomas A. Woolsey, M.D., the George H. and Ethel R. Bishop Scholar in Neuroscience and professor of neurological surgery, of neurology, of anatomy and neurobiology, of cell biology and physiology and of biomedical engineering, was awarded the Science Educator Award at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. The $5,000 award is made to a neuroscientist who has made significant contributions in educating the public about the field.
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Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture and chair of the Architecture Graduate Program, gave two invited lectures in November: “Embossings of the Sky: Louis I. Kahn and the Light-Giving Wall,” presented at the AIA New York Center for Architecture, and “Louis I. Kahn: The Eternal and the Circumstantial,” delivered as part of the Architecture Lecture Series at Kansas State University.