Science & Technology

WashU faculty can apply for the 2027 cohort of the Digital Transformation Research Corps, a 10-week summer program that pairs WashU faculty with student software developers to create artificial intelligence-driven tools that advance research. Applications are due Nov. 30.

Researchers from WashU McKelvey Engineering have developed a hybrid system that augments organisms including locusts to serve as sample collectors for chemical vapors. The work has implications for homeland security, environmental and industrial monitoring and healthcare.

WashU Arts & Sciences’ Seanna Leath has received an award from the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

A well-known clock gene helps plants sense salt and respond to it, according to new research from biologist Xuehua Zhong in WashU Arts & Sciences. The findings could help scientists develop more resilient crops.

The funding will support a WashU Medicine collaboration with CRISPR Therapeutics and SynGenix, a WashU startup, to move a single-injection treatment to reverse joint damage into clinical trials.

Artificial intelligence could help counter election misinformation at the same speed that false narratives spread, according to new research from WashU and Caltech.

Brett D. Wick, chair of the Department of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences, has been installed as the inaugural Robert G. and Maxine W. Scheibe Professor of Mathematics.

Under a new grant from the NSF, a WashU team will use AI and statistics to study the impact of aerosols on marine low clouds. That knowledge can help communities protect health and prepare for extreme weather.

WashU McKelvey Engineering’s Lan Yang and her team have developed a new sensing technique to detect nanoparticles.

WashU is conducting a universitywide transportation survey. Data gathered from this survey will provide campus planners with key information about the community’s transportation behaviors.