SLU Announces Latest Scholarly Works and Grant Winners Honorees

03/20/2024

Saint Louis University’s Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) will honor the work of faculty members, research staff, and graduate students at its annual Scholarly Works and Grant Winners reception on Friday, April 5.   

The annual ceremony celebrates research excellence and recognizes success in publications and other scholarly outputs as well as grants and service from SLU faculty and staff. Winners will be recognized for accomplishments from 2023. This event will take place from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Sinquefield Room located in DuBourg Hall, Room 409.  

All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to join in the celebration. The reception will begin at 3 p.m. with the program beginning shortly after. 

The program will present awards to the Scholarly Works winners followed by presentations to Grant Winners. 

Scholarly Works Honorees 

Public Works  

• Junior Faculty Winner: Michael Sinha, M.D., J.D., (Health Law Studies), for “CBD: The Gordian Knot of Pot,” (with Grace M. Peterson), Health Affairs Forefront
• Honorable Mention: Karla Scott, Ph.D., (Communication), for A Primer: to talk about race & dialogue across identity divisions, published by Dialogue, Diversity & Dharma
• Senior Faculty Winner: Bradley Bailey, Ph.D., (Visual and Performing Arts), for “Sound Moves: Where Music Meets Chess,” an exhibition at the World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis

Creative Works 

• Senior Faculty Winner: Lucy Cashion, MFA, (Visual and Performing Arts), for “The Brechtfast Club,” a theatrical adaptation of the movie “The Breakfast Club” in the style of Bertolt Brecht, which she produced, directed, designed, and co-wrote

Non-Books (Articles) 

• Honorable Mention: Cameron Anglum, Ph.D., (Educational Studies), for “Separate and Unequal in St. Louis? Strengths and Limitations of School-Level Funding Data Using a QuantCrit Framework,” Urban Education
• Honorable Mention: Joshua Guyer, Ph.D., (Psychology – SLU-Madrid), for “Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
• Junior Faculty Winner: Stephen Blake, Ph.D., (Biology), for “Megaherbivores modify forest structure and increase carbon stocks through multiple pathways,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Honorable Mention: Marvin Meyers, Ph.D., (Chemistry), for “Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of the Aryl Acetamide Triazolopyridazines Against Cryptosporidium Parvum Reveals Remarkable Role of Fluorine,” Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
• Senior Faculty Winner: Elizabeth Hasenmueller, Ph.D., (Earth and Atmospheric Science), for “Cave sediment sequesters anthropogenic microparticles (including microplastics and modified cellulose) in subsurface environments,” Science of the Total Environment
• Honorable Mention: Suzanne Mahon, DNSc, (Hematology and Oncology), for “Laboratory Selection in Germline Genetic Testing: Laboratory Science Matters,” Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
• Honorable Mention: Erica Salter, Ph.D., (Health Care Ethics, Pediatrics), for “Pediatric Decision Making: Consensus Recommendations,” Pediatrics
• Joint Junior and Senior Winners: Sofia Origanti, Ph.D., (Biology), & Edwin Antony, Ph.D., (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), for “An Aurora B-RPA signaling axis secures chromosome segregation fidelity,” Nature Communications 

Books 

• Junior Faculty Winner: Fabien Montcher, Ph.D., (History), for Mercenaries of Knowledge: Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics, published by Cambridge University Press
• Senior Faculty Winner: Amy Wright, Ph.D., (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), for Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now, published by Vanderbilt University Press
• Senior Faculty Winner: Brian Yothers, Ph.D., (English), for Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now, published by Camden House/Boydell & Brewer

Grant Winners, Faculty, Graduate Student, and Research Staff Awards 

Graduate Student Awards 

• Stella Hoft, M.D./Ph.D. candidate, (Molecular Microbiology and Immunology): National Institutes of Health National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, F30 Predoctoral Dual Degree Fellows Award
• Reagan McGuffee, M.D./Ph.D. candidate, (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology):  National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, F30 Predoctoral Dual Degree Fellows Award

Research Administrator Award 

• Anne Miller, M.A., (Research Innovation Group): Stalwart leadership of OVPR’s Research Innovation Group

Infrastructure Award 

• Ellen Barnidge, Ph.D., (Behavioral Science and Health Education): Health Resources and Services Administration award to renovate the Wool Center

Faculty Innovation Award 

• Tim Randolph, Ph.D., (Clinical Health Sciences): Named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for developing more accessible diagnostics for sickle cell disease

Top Foundation Award 

• Rachel Lindsey, Ph.D., (Theological Studies) and Pauline Lee, Ph.D., (Theological Studies): Lived Religion in the Digital Age funded by The Henry Luce Foundation Award

Teaching & Service Award 

• Gary Ritter, Ph.D., (Dean – School of Education): U.S. Department of Education Supporting Effective Educator Development Program, P2B: Paraprofessional to Bachelor’s Degree

Research Impact & Collaboration Award 

• Jeff Scherrer, Ph.D., (Family and Community Medicine) and Rick Grucza, Ph.D., (Family and Community Medicine): National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program, Trans America Consortium of the Health Care Systems Research Network

Faculty Research Award 

• Jenna Gorlewicz, Ph.D., (Mechanical Engineering):  National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator Program, Track H: Addressing the Fragmented Information Access Problem - A Community-Driven, AI-Powered Platform for Inclusive, Multimodal Content Creation