Science & Technology

Researchers at WashU have developed vulnerability maps highlighting regions across the United States with varying levels of socioeconomic vulnerability to influenza-like illness.

WashU is launching a new universitywide initiative called +AI. The initiative aims to transform teaching and learning and accelerate research while also acknowledging the challenges AI will create.

Engineering researchers at WashU are providing guidance and maps to improve the performance and safety of lithium-ion batteries.

Researchers at WashU are documenting the loss of the Sunlight glacier system near Sunlight Peak, Wyo.

Ralph S. Quatrano, an internationally renowned plant scientist, former dean of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering & Applied Science and former chair of the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences, died Feb. 24, 2026, in St. Louis. He was 84.

WashU researchers will be looking over data about high-energy neutrinos, retrieved during a balloon flight over Antarctica in January.

Alvitta Ottley, a computer science researcher at WashU, was appointed to a United Nations panel on artificial intelligence.

The master’s program in biomedical data science and artificial intelligence is one of few such programs in the U.S. It offers a flexible curriculum, part-time enrollment and evening classes to accommodate working students.

Machine learning researchers at Washington University in St. Louis used artificial intelligence to help with early detection of spinal cord disease.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a federal grant to further develop a fiber-based, deep-brain interface to study the relationship between neurovascular dysfunction and memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease.