The McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University, with support from the Office of the Provost, awards seed grants that stimulate high-impact research linking university experts with our partners around the world. These investments help research teams, often representing cross-disciplinary fields, demonstrate the power and potential of their work.
Dr. Nhial Tutlam and the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD) was awarded the prestigious National Institutes of Health Career Development award in the amount of $750,000, which will fund Dr. Tutlam’s research focused on addressing Intergenerational Trauma in Second Generation Refugee Children in the U.S. His initiative, titled “Resettled Refugee Families for Healing,” fuses established […]
Fred Ssewamala, the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor at the Brown School and director of the International Center for Child Health and Development, and Byron Powell, co-director of the Brown School’s Center for Mental Health Services Research, all at Washington University in St. Louis, have won a five-year $3.5 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, part of the […]
Gaya K. Amarasinghe, PhD, Alumni Endowed Professor of Pathology and Immunology, and a multi-institutional team of researchers were awarded a $16.8 million grant from NIH for their Ebola virus research.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Aaloke Mody’s soon-to-be-funded NIH grant will support a project in Zambia that helps patients who are living with HIV to remain in care long term.
Interview with Faculty Fellow Samuel Shearer “When most non-Rwandans hear ‘Kigali’ or ‘Rwanda,’ they often think one word: ‘genocide,’” says Samuel Shearer, assistant professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Humanities. Shearer’s book-in-progress, “The Kigali After: A New City for the End of the […]
The Lives it Has Changed in Sub-Saharan Africa When Scovia Nassaazi was 12 years old, her family agreed to participate in a pilot research program led by a U.S. scholar to open savings accounts for children in the small Ugandan towns where they lived. The account was used to help pay her school fees and encourage […]
WashU research spurs changes to global guidelines for feeding malnourished kids Globally, more than 16 million children under age 5 suffer from severe acute malnutrition. The condition is a form of starvation that primarily affects kids from impoverished areas of Africa and Asia and causes excessive thinness or swelling of the body while also compromising organ […]
Proscovia Nabunya and Patricia Cavazos-Rehg have received a five-year $1.2 million research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.