Month: April 2024

As part of ongoing efforts to prioritize its role and impact in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis for the first time will present the free Twilight Thursdays concert series in May at the Missouri History Museum.

Jenna Ditto, an assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, is taking a closer look at the chemistry of indoor dust with a three-year $453,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

“Retina Burn” is an annual concert designed to showcase the skills that student lighting designers have learned during their studies in the Performing Arts Department. This year’s event will return April 25 to Edison Theatre.

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis contributed to a national study that identifies how gentrified parts of a city have notably more urban wildlife than ungentrified parts of the same city.

Washington University in St. Louis’ online directory will remain available after all. The university had announced plans to remove it May 1, but after additional analysis, administrators have determined it is required to conduct university business.

Zainab Mahmoud, MD, an instructor in medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded the Dr. Nanette K. Wenger Research Goes Red Award from the American Heart Association.

Sang-Hoon Bae, a researcher at Washington University, has developed artificial heterostructures made of freestanding 2D and 3D membranes that have an energy density up to 19 times higher than commercially available capacitors.

Seanna Leath, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to receive the Society for Research on Adolescence’s Early Career Award.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

The ThurtenE Carnival at Washington University has been canceled for Sunday, April 21 due to crowd safety concerns.