Science & Technology

Jennifer M. Heemstra, the Charles Allen Thomas Professor of Chemistry and chair of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at WashU, delivered a keynote address at the American Chemistry Society fall meeting in Denver.

Biologists in Arts & Sciences have found new ways to encourage the plastic-producing power of purple microbes.

The Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building at WashU Medicine has earned LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

A collaboration of universities and industry, led by the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, is embarking on a bold plan to transform manufacturing toward zero or negative emissions by converting carbon dioxide into environmentally friendly chemicals and products that create a circular economy.

Courtney Reichhardt, an assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue several projects on fibrillar adhesins, the proteins bacteria use to stick to each other and surfaces.

Microscopy engineers at Washington University model how molecules move to enhance understanding of nanoscale biological systems.

Field research, science communication and . . . blood feeding. These were some of the skills that high school students Hope Jett and Kari Koerner learned this summer as part of WashU’s Tyson Environmental Research Apprenticeship.

Researchers from multiple disciplines at Washington University teamed up to study how human behavior changes when training artificial intelligence.

Alumnus Deko Devins is on a mission to make solar power more widespread, affordable and accessible.

Researchers at Washington University studied the role of serotonin in altering odor-driven behavioral and neural responses in locusts.