Author: Leah Shaffer

Rachel Roberts, a professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for 2026.

Physicists from Washington University in St. Louis share results from an international collaboration for measuring the hard X-ray polarization from the black hole Cygnus X-1.

David Fike, a researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, is helping to lead the American contingent of a $3.1 million international drilling project investigating a landmark shift in Earth’s evolution.

Doctoral student Ruiqi Wang at Washington University in St. Louis has received a prestigious Google PhD fellowship for health research.

Li Yang, the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics at WashU, has been named a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society.

Kenneth (Ken) Franklin Kelton, the Arthur Holly Compton Professor Emeritus of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, has died following complications from lymphoma treatments. He was 71.

Research from engineers at Washington University in St. Louis will help turn waste gas into energy-rich compounds for sustainable manufacturing.

A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis has created a new kind of fiber-optic device to manipulate neural activity deep in the brain.

In recent research, Guy Genin, a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis, has identified phase transitions in living tissue that could explain why fibrosis suddenly accelerates.

Computer engineers from Washington University in St. Louis have released a round of “computer vision” tools that can help with species classification and autonomous driving technologies.