Author: Talia Ogliore

Katharine Flores at the McKelvey School of Engineering will collaborate on a National Science Foundation-funded project to build simulation-informed models that predict material properties in 3D-printed metallic glasses

Research led by Bronwen Konecky in Arts & Sciences takes an important step toward reconstructing a global history of water over the last 2,000 years.

An interdisciplinary team of WashU researchers developed CATCH, a potentially powerful automated tool for mitigating the spread of infectious diseases among front-line health-care workers.

Kenneth Olsen, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, was installed as a George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology in a Sept. 27 ceremony held in Holmes Lounge. His installation address was titled “Plants, evolution and living in clover.”

Rajan Chakrabarty at the McKelvey School of Engineering received funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science program to explore how physical and chemical properties of aerosols are distributed vertically in the air. The research will help develop and evaluate atmospheric models.

Robert Charity and Lee Sobotka in Arts & Sciences described Nitrogen-9 in Physical Review Letters. The Department of Energy Office of Science recently awarded the scientists $1.5 million to continue their studies of nuclear reactions and structure for the next three years.

Amazon uses smart speaker interaction data to infer user interests and target ads in ways the company was not upfront about, according to research from Umar Iqbal at the McKelvey School of Engineering.

Ashlynn Berry is one of 60 graduate students from across the country — and the only one in Missouri — selected to participate in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) fellowship program.

Washington University scientists have documented 10 different bat species in our area, including several threatened and endangered bats.

Washington University and St. Jude research groups have uncovered the rules for organization of cellular condensates implicated in ALS.