Science & Technology

WashU faculty and research staff can apply for the 2026 Digital Transformation Research Corps, a summer program from the Digital Intelligence & Innovation Accelerator that pairs research teams with student developers and data scientists. Applications are due Jan. 15.

Matthew Lew, at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected to the 2026 class of Optica fellows.

Alex Quillin, PhD ’25, talks about the day she looked through the microscope and realized what she and her fellow students discovered.

A study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has found connections between the alternative sweetener sorbitol and liver disease.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed an algorithm to decode the language of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins and their roles in human cancers.

Lúcia Lohmann has been installed as the George Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that the timing of biopsy can affect how doctors diagnose tumors and when those cancers may be more sensitive to chemotherapy.

Two students from Washington University in St. Louis’ Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic recently took aim at the state’s arguments about who bears responsibility for harmful air pollution in the St. Louis region.

WashU’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present “Silent Sky,” which explores the life and work of celebrated astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre Nov. 20-23.

Physicists from Washington University in St. Louis share results from an international collaboration for measuring the hard X-ray polarization from the black hole Cygnus X-1.