Science & Technology

Joshua Yuan at Washington University in St. Louis and Susie Dai at the University of Missouri, along with colleagues at WashU and Texas A&M, created biodiesel with electrocatalysis and bioconversion.

Can we ever see too much data? Yes, actually. In some situations, visual overload can paralyze decision-making. But over the last year, the interdisciplinary SAIL lab, with help from WashU Rowing, has explored nonvisual means for transmitting real-time performance feedback.

Joshua S. Yuan, chair of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, was installed as the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor Oct. 17.

Xudong Chen, a researcher at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received a federal grant to develop a framework that would predict how fundamental system properties of large-scale networks behave in uncertain environments.

Tao Ju, a researcher at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will develop algorithms for 3D surface modeling with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

A Washington University researcher has received a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy to convert carbon dioxide into carbon nanotubes that could be used in lithium-ion batteries.

Ulugbek Kamilov, a computer scientist at Washington University, plans to work on innovative algorithms with $20,000 from Google.

Gang Wu, an electrochemist at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a research award from the Electrochemical Society.

In a new publication, researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering make the case for electro-agriculture to help drastically cut carbon emissions.

Two WashU PhD candidates have been selected for the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Inc. Graduate Student Fellows Program. The students, Allison Martinez Mejia and Gerson Moreno Romero, are both studying biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering.