Research Wire

A new study from the WashU Brown School finds that transparent management helped keep frontline 988 counselors’ morale strong as new performance metrics were introduced.

WashU researcher Scott VanBommel led the team studying the Curiosity rover’s unexpected discovery of pure sulfur, which offers new clues to conditions on Mars roughly 3 billion years ago.

WashU Medicine researchers led by Jacco Boon show that a novel H5N1 vaccine confers robust protection regardless of prior seasonal flu immunity.

A team of WashU researchers has received a more than $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the mechanisms underlying hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia.

With a grant from the National Science Foundation, WashU computer engineer Shantanu Chakrabartty will design hybrid neuromorphic and quantum computing systems that could unlock huge energy efficiencies in solving artificial intelligence problems.

WashU Medicine researchers led by Michael E. Belloy (left), an assistant professor of neurology and of psychiatry, identified key genetic targets for potential Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics development.

With a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, WashU’s Umar Iqbal proposes to redesign the web with infrastructures that will allow AI agents to reliably use it.

Biologist Keith Hengen, in WashU Arts & Sciences, is applying lessons from the brain to next-generation quantum sensors through a U.S. Department of Energy-funded project.

Nathan Stitziel, MD, PhD, has received a $1.9 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to help lead an international collaboration aimed at identifying new therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease and improving prevention.

McKelvey Engineering researchers, led by James Friend, have developed a device that uses sound waves to pump fluid through porous materials. Such a device could have uses from fuel cells to delivering drugs efficiently.