Guérin wins grant to enhance atmospheric simulation speed
Roch Guérin, chair of computer science and engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received a two-year $207,394 grant from the National Science Foundation to improve speed of GEOS-Chem 3D atmospheric simulation software.
Center for the Environment welcomes campus community during kickoff events
WashU’s Center for the Environment will host a series of events next month to introduce its work to the campus community.
New research creates framework for large-scale geospatial exploration
Computer scientists at the McKelvey School of Engineering have developed a framework for large-scale geospatial exploration using a novel visual reasoning model.
Samples from a Wild comet reveal a surprising past
Eighteen years after NASA’s Stardust mission returned to Earth with the first samples from a known comet, the true nature of that icy object is coming into focus, according to physicist Ryan Ogliore in Arts & Sciences.
Four factors that drove 2023’s extreme heat
2023 was the hottest year in recorded history. Michael Wysession, a professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, explains four factors that drove the year’s extreme heat and climate disasters — and what this means for the future.
Old research, new readers
Some Source stories from years past continue to attract new readers. Here, we check in with WashU researchers in linguistics, psychology, engineering and other disciplines to learn more about their work and how the research has progressed.
Why do we sleep? Researchers propose an answer to this age-old question
Sleep helps restore the brain’s operating system to a critical state, according to new findings from biology and physics researchers in Arts & Sciences.
Some mosquitoes like it hot
Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Hodges receives geospatial diversity fellowship, Dean’s Select Fellowship
Nia Hodges, a second-year master’s student studying data analytics and statistics at the McKelvey School of Engineering, recently won a Diversity Fellowship Award from the Taylor Geospatial Institute, a collaboration that aims to advance geospatial technology.
Flores named ASM Fellow
Katharine M. Flores, the Christopher I. Byrnes Professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of ASM (American Society for Metals) International for her contributions to the field of materials science and engineering.
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