Of note

Barbara Kunkel, PhD, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $371,273 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Modulation of Host Auxin Physiology by Pseudomonas Syringae.” Also receiving the grant was Libo Shan, PhD, of Texas A&M University. …

Chenyang Lu, PhD, professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Cyber-Physical Co-Design of Wireless Monitoring and Control for Civil Infrastructure.” …

Mona Mashayekhi, a graduate student in pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $26,000 American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship Award for research titled “The Role of CD8alpha+ Dendritic Cells in Immune Responses to Toxoplasma gondii.” …

Alian Wang, PhD, research associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $398,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Experimental Investigation of Sulfates Relevant to Mars: Stability Fields, Phase Transition Pathways, and Reaction Rates.” …

Clifford Will, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $386,500 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Relativistic Gravitation and Astrophysics.”

Speaking of

Paul Michael Lützeler, PhD, the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, gave the keynote lecture Sept. 19 at the convention of the Deutscher Germanistenverband (The Association of Professors of German Language and Literature in Germany) at the University of Freiburg. Lützeler’s lecture was titled “The Writers’ Discourse on Europe: Institutional and Cultural Contributions from France and Germany.”