Chancellor brings magic to MySci Resource Center opening (VIDEO)
The MySci Resource Center, the new hub of the Institute for School Partnership in University City, Mo.,
launched Feb. 18 to great fanfare. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, a chemist by training, donned goggles and a lab coat to demonstrate to student visitors how much fun science can be. Video highlights of “Magic” Mark Wrighton are included.
Bayly, team get $2.25 million grant to study brain mechanics
WUSTL engineering researchers have received a five-year, $2.25 million grant to better understand traumatic brain injuries in efforts to improve methods for prevention and treatment.
Watching molecules grow into microtubes
A
team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, headed by
Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering
& materials science, unexpectedly found the mechanism by which tiny
single molecules spontaneously grow into centimeter-long microtubes by
leaving a dish for a different experiment in the refrigerator. This novel
approach of making nano- and microstructures and devices is expected to
have numerous applications in electronics, optics and biomedical
applications.
New device better traps viruses, airborne pathogens
Washington University engineering researchers have created a new type of air-cleaning technology that could better protect human lungs from allergens, airborne viruses and ultrafine particles in the air. The device, known as the SXC ESP, was created by a team led by Pratim Biswas, PhD, the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor and chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
Engineers Week to feature Edward Jung and Mythbusters
Engineers Week 2013 is packed with a variety of events celebrating engineers all week long. The
week, founded by the National Engineers Week Foundation, is designed to
increase the visibility of the School of Engineering & Applied
Science at the university, collaborate between various engineering
groups and promote the interaction among students, alumni, faculty,
staff and engineering professionals.
WUSTL leaders urge action on sequester threat
Washington University in St. Louis administrators are urging Congress and the White House to reach a compromise to avoid wide-ranging, across-the-board federal spending cuts that would take effect March 1.
New mobile app helps students track campus shuttle
An undergraduate student at WUSTL helped create and launch a mobile app that helps students track the campus circulator shuttle. It’s called the “WUSTL Circulator,” and on its first day, it had up to four times as many downloads as typical new university apps.
Déjà vu all over again? Cultural understanding vs. horrors of eugenics
Scientific efforts to explain feeblemindedness, delinquency and racial inferiorities date to the Spanish Inquisition. And while the horrors of Nazi Germany exposed fatal flaws
in science’s quest to build the master race, the ethical dilemmas posed
by the science of eugenics are far from behind us, warns an anthropologist from Washington University in St. Louis.
Building engineers of the future
Every Tuesday afternoon, an undergraduate from WUSTL’s School of Engineering & Applied Science heads back to middle school. Nick
Okafor leads the after-school Young Engineers Club at Brittany Woods
Middle School in University City. N’Desha Scott, a sophomore majoring in
biomedical engineering, started the club last fall as a way to reach
out to middle school students from groups traditionally underrepresented
in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
Tales from the field: maintaining seismic stations at the South Pole
This winter (the Southern Hemisphere summer), postdoctoral research associate Aubreya Adams, PhD, spent a few months at the South Pole Station maintaining seismic equipment. This photoessay, based on her Facebook page, provides a glimpse of what it is like at the South Pole and what seismologists get up to when they go into the field to maintain seismic stations.
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