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Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new study says

kstuber — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:11:05 -0600

Wellman receives grant

kstuber — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:09:17 -0600

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Christopher H. Wellman, Ph.D., professor of philosophy in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $123,371 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a summer seminar for college and university professors titled "Philosophical Perspectives on Liberal Democracy and the Global Order."

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Sommers receives grant

kstuber — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:07:14 -0600

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Mitchell Sommers, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $520,791 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled "RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: The Effect of Subglottal Resonances on Machine and Human Speaker Normalization." Also receiving the grant was Abeer Alwan, Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles. This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Wiens and Wysession receive NSF grant

kstuber — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:06:18 -0600

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Michael Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor, and Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor, both in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, have received a four-year, $725,417 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled "Investigation of Sources of Intraplate Volcanism Using PASSCAL Broadband Instruments in Madagascar, The Comores, and Mozambique (MACOMO)." Also receiving the grant was Andrew A. Nyblade, Ph.D., of Penn State University and Robert D. Tucker, Ph.D., of the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Graduate student Reece receives grant

kstuber — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:03:49 -0600

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Joshua Reece, graduate student in biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $2,000 grant from the Saint Louis Zoo's Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation for research titled "Genetic Sex Diagnosis of Cryptobranchid Salamanders." Also receiving the grant was Paul Hime of the Saint Louis Zoo.

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Faculty book colloquium to feature Pulitzer Prize-winner Louis Menand

kstuber — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:16:55 -0600

Washington University awarded $80 million in stimulus grants

kstuber — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:16:11 -0600

Early receives grant

kstuber — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:03:03 -0600

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Gerald L. Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $208,521 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Center for the Humanities to sponsor a 2010 summer institute for school teachers titled "The New Negro Renaissance in America, 1914-1941." Several Arts & Sciences faculty, including Rafia Zafar, Ph.D., professor of English and of African and African American studies, Joseph Thompson, Ph.D., academic coordinator in African and Afri-can American studies, Patrick Burke, Ph.D., assistant professor of music, and Sowande Musta-keem, Ph.D., Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in history, will be part of the institute.

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Braver receives grant

kstuber — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:02:05 -0600

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Todd Braver, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year supplemental grant of $376,812 from the National Institute of Mental Health for ongoing research titled "Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control." This supplemental grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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St. Louis Public Schools teaching award named for Washington University Professor David Konig

kstuber — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:59:44 -0600

Wiens receives grant

kstuber — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:40:44 -0500

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Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $193,416 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled "Extending the Lau Imaging Experiment to Study the Deep Tonga Seismic Zone." This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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McDaniel and Braver receive grant

kstuber — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:39:57 -0500

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Mark A. McDaniel, Ph.D., professor, and Todd Braver, Ph.D., professor, both in the Department of Psychology in Arts & Sciences, have received a two-year, $780,796 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled "Neural Mechanisms of Age-Related Changes in Prospective Memory."

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May receives grant

kstuber — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:38:48 -0500

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Victoria May, Ph.D., director of educational outreach and assistant dean in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $36,878 subcontract from Cornell University for research titled "Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Large-Scale Wastewater Treatment."

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Moeller receives NSF grant

kstuber — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:53:20 -0500

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Kevin D. Moeller, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $455,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled "New Synthetic Methods for Building Chip Based Libraries."

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Martin, Pang receive NSF grant

kstuber — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:53:17 -0500

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Andrew D. Martin, Ph.D., professor of political science in Arts & Sciences and of law, and Xun Pang, graduate student in political science, have received a one-year, $7,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled "Discrete Time-Series Cross-Section Models of Political Economy."