Month: October 2023

Quick detection of the COVID-19 virus — in the air and in one’s breath — offers hope in the nearly four-year struggle against the disease and its variants. A collaboration of WashU scientists is leading the way.

First-year Washington University students may have a lot to learn about media literacy in 2023, but so do the rest of us. It starts, says Eileen G’Sell, MFA ’06, with understanding that audience is everything.

Alumnus Tej Seelamsetty applies his joint interests in business and technology to a massive health-care problem.

Rachel Marsh, CEO of the Children’s Alliance of Kansas, leverages her two WashU degrees to promote child safety and well-being.

Our commitment to community runs deep, and we aim to enhance the health, equity and prosperity for all in the region and beyond.

The creators behind America’s most wholesome comic wanted to remake the comics world in its image. See the story through a new exhibit at Olin Library.

Two Washington University faculty members and their research teams build the “WashU Mini-City” — a novel and low-cost physical environment — to study autonomous vehicles and, ultimately, to improve their reliability and safety.

The university has started the process to identify the inaugural dean of the new School of Public Health, planned its annual public health conference and announced a new Assembly Series speaker.

Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of the Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology at the School of Medicine, has been recognized with the 2023 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.

With a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Srikanth Singamaneni at the McKelvey School of Engineering will develop a method that combines a bright fluorescent nanoparticle with expansion microscopy to image secreted proteins with high sensitivity, precision and accuracy.