Science & Technology

WashU earth scientists in Arts & Sciences are mapping Earth’s interior and analyzing lava rocks from a volcanic hotspot near the islands of Samoa.

Mikhail Tikhonov in Arts & Sciences has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a project that will apply the statistical approaches of physics to the complicated world of microbial ecology.

In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, physicist Kater Murch in Arts & Sciences demonstrates a new type of sensor that leverages quantum entanglement to make time-traveling detectors.

Liam Brodie, a graduate student working with Mark Alford, a professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to participate in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

Physicists in Arts & Sciences are helping to shape the theoretical framework behind exciting new experiments at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

Yashika Kapoor, a postdoctoral fellow in physics from Arts & Sciences, will attend the 73rd annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany. The event is a globally recognized forum for exchange between Nobel laureates and young scientists.

In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, Kater Murch in Arts & Sciences and his collaborators explore the effects of memory in quantum systems. View an illustrated video about the experiments and findings.

Mark Lawrence and Ismael Seáñez, both assistant professors in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, have won $25,000 Collaboration Initiation Grants from the school.

Washington University in St. Louis will manage data processing and dissemination for the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, one of the first three potential payloads selected for Artemis III, NASA’s mission which will return astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Although earthquakes may seem uncommon in the New York area, they are not unheard of — and there are similarities to earthquakes experienced in St. Louis, according to seismologist Doug Wiens in Arts & Sciences.