The Office of the Provost is proud to celebrate the exemplary contributions of our faculty to teaching and research.
WashU’s faculty earn national and international distinction for their achievements as leaders in their fields. They are Nobel Prize laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, Poet Laureates of the United States, National Book Awardees, National Medal of Science medalists, and MacArthur Prize Fellowship winners. You can find a full list of awards and learned society memberships earned by WashU faculty here. The following represent both news coverage and major honors WashU faculty continue to receive recognizing their contributions to their fields of study.
WashU Awards
- Brown School Distinguished Faculty Award
- David M. Becker Professor of the Year Award
- Adjunct Professor of the Year Award
- John S. Lehmann Research Professorship
- Treiman Fellowship
Faculty Grants
Jha’s NIH grant to support cancer research
Lung cancer is the leading cause of mortality among all cancers in the United States. About 85% of newly diagnosed lung-cancer cases are non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), of which up to half are stage 3 at time of diagnosis. Long-term outcomes are poor at this stage, with only 5%-10% of the patients with stage […]
NIH awards 4 medical school scientists prestigious ‘high-risk, high-reward’ grants
Richards, Laidlaw, Orvedahl, Shmuylovich chosen for their innovative research projects.|Richards, Laidlaw, Orvedahl, Shmuylovich chosen for their innovative research projects.
Electrical signaling in cells focus of $8.8 million grant
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an eight-year $8.8 million grant to study cells’ ion channels as potential targets for new drugs to treat disorders affecting the brain, heart and muscles.|Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an eight-year $8.8 million grant to study […]
Africa Initiative awards new round of pilot grants
The university’s Africa Initiative recently received more than two-dozen proposals from faculty as part of its call for proposals to fund research projects on the continent.|The university’s Africa Initiative recently received more than two-dozen proposals from faculty as part of its call for proposals to fund research projects on the continent.
Weisensee receives NSF CAREER Award
Patricia Weisensee, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a $557,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.|Patricia Weisensee, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has […]