Junior Krishnan awarded Truman Scholarship

Arts & Sciences junior Nidhi Krishnan, an ROTC cadet in the Gateway Battalion and an Ervin Scholar, has been awarded a Truman Scholarship, the prestigious graduate fellowship in the United States for those pursuing careers in public service.

Grant supports training for cancer research careers

School of Medicine researchers have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support training and mentorship for early-career physician-scientists. The funding will support early-career physicians pursuing careers in cancer research.

Early crop plants were more easily ‘tamed’

Borrowing a page from what we know about animal behavior, Natalie Mueller in Arts & Sciences says that we should reassess our understanding of the process of plant domestication.

Notables

Kevin Collins, an intellectual property expert, was installed as the Edward T. Foote II Professor of Law during a ceremony in March. Collins also serves as director of the university’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law program.

Research Wire

A team of WashU researchers is among the first to receive an Arts & Sciences Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures grant to study how historical border instability influences contemporary public trust and vaccine hesitancy. The project builds off previous work by political scientist David Carter.

Research Wire

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Aravind Nagulu, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has secured a four-year $2 million grant to enhance the computational efficiency of radio-frequency correlators, like those used in radar systems.