Smart occupational therapy clinic to break ground

A team of architects, medical professionals and engineers from WashU and architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have been exploring questions about building design and people’s health. On Friday, Nov. 11, a new Smart Home for Occupational Therapy Healing will break ground in the Delmar Maker District.

Researchers bring Body U to schools with HHS grant

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded researchers Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft and Denise Wilfley a grant to help improve outcomes for eating disorders in adolescent girls.

2022 Global Incubator Seed Grant winners announced

Twenty research projects involving Washington University faculty and international collaborators recently were funded through the Global Incubator Seed Grant program.

Board grants faculty appointments, tenure

At the university’s Board of Trustees meeting in October, more than a dozen faculty members from multiple schools were appointed with tenure or granted tenure.

Notables

A University Marketing & Communications team won a 2022 Regional Emmy Award Oct. 29, and received two additional nominations, from the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Research Wire

In Nature Communications, researchers in the laboratory of Robert Kranz, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, shared a new cryo-EM structure and proposed some common mechanisms of heme trafficking in the cell.

Announcements

Flu shots available on campus

Flu vaccine clinics will be held on the Danforth Campus starting Friday, Nov. 11. Appointments are encouraged, but walk-in patients will be accepted.

George Paz, former trustee, 67

George Paz, a former trustee of Washington University, died Oct. 23. He was 67. He served on the university’s board from July 2009 until June 2019.