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Arts & Sciences has over 1,000 faculty and staff who utilize their diverse expertise in the pursuit of research breakthroughs, gaining a deeper understanding of the world's most pressing issues and serving as mentors of the next generation.
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Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Jeffrey M. Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $250,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study event cognition “in the wild.” This project will take the research into the world, where people actually experience events. Key to the research is “Unforgettable,” an infrastructure developed over the past decade by collaborator Simon Dennis, of the University of Melbourne, which helps people enrich and better understand their own memories while collecting data for a scientific exploration of event comprehension and memory.
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More from The Ampersand
Acree awarded entrepreneurial leadership, innovation fellowship
William Acree, vice dean of interdisciplinary initiatives and innovation and a professor of Spanish, has been named a fellow with the Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership.

WashU chemists reveal new insights into ALS-linked protein
Using advanced biophysical and imaging techniques, Meredith Jackrel and her team have isolated Matrin-3 to better understand its role in neurodegenerative diseases.