Science & Technology

Guy Genin at WashU McKelvey Engineering has been selected to deliver the 2026 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture, one of the highest honors conferred by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Members of WashU Racing commit more than 20 hours a week to building and testing a formula-style race car from scratch — six-hour building days, 12-hour testing days and dozens and dozens of meetings designing systems, planning logistics and finding sponsors. That work paid off this spring, when WashU Racing achieved its highest showing in club history at the annual Formula SAE competition.

Biomedical engineer Quing Zhu and WashU Medicine collaborators combined optical coherence tomography and machine learning for a rapid, accurate test for endometrial cancer.

A new minor program at WashU McKelvey Engineering will equip students with the ability to connect technical decisions with societal outcomes.

WashU engineering researchers led by Sang-Hoon Bae received a grant from Samsung to further their work to improve electrostatic capacitors.

AI for Health Institute researchers at WashU developed a framework that helps clinical language models know when to be confident and when to be cautious.

Nathan Jacobs’ lab at WashU tackles detecting AI-generated images with the real thing.

WashU biomedical engineers used highly sensitive imaging in a mouse model to better understand arrhythmia’s effect on the brain.

WashU chemical engineers will tackle plastic upcycling with a U.S. Department of Energy grant.

Yan Yu, a scientist trained in both chemistry and engineering whose research focuses on developing nanotechnologies to detect and treat immune-related diseases, is the inaugural Art Krieg Professor at WashU. Yu gave a talk titled “Breaking Barriers: From Immune Cells to Classrooms.”