Science & Technology

Grandparents are engaging with their grandchildren far more than previous generations, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found. They surveyed grandparents to understand the quality and quantity of their conversations with grandchildren.

The McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has received several grants from the Department of Defense to support research into machine learning and energy storage.

The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management has recognized Shiran Victoria Shen, an assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, for her environment policy research.

The National Academy of Inventors has elected two Washington University in St. Louis faculty members to its 2025 cohort of fellows: Jennifer N. Silva, MD, and Lan Yang.

WashU faculty and research staff can apply for the 2026 Digital Transformation Research Corps, a summer program from the Digital Intelligence & Innovation Accelerator that pairs research teams with student developers and data scientists. Applications are due Jan. 15.

Matthew Lew, at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected to the 2026 class of Optica fellows.

Alex Quillin, PhD ’25, talks about the day she looked through the microscope and realized what she and her fellow students discovered.

A study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has found connections between the alternative sweetener sorbitol and liver disease.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed an algorithm to decode the language of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins and their roles in human cancers.

Lúcia Lohmann has been installed as the George Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis.