David Peters, the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been chosen to receive the Dr. Alexander Klemin Award from the Vertical Flight Society. It’s the highest honor the society gives an individual for notable achievement in advancing vertical flight aeronautics.
We’ll need to recognize that investing in the public sector helps a wide segment of Americans. If not, we’ll look back and realize that sacrificing the public sector on the altar of “school choice” and individualism has left us unprepared for an increasingly multiracial society.
Robert W. Gereau, the Dr. Seymour and Rose T. Brown Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine, is working to discover the genetic and molecular roots of pain, with a goal of reversing the processes that cause pain and make it so disabling.
Washington University in St. Louis has launched a new $3.5 million solar project. When complete, it will generate 2.5 megawatts of energy across the university, enough to take 480 cars off the road.
Alexander S. Bradley, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, received a $540,000 grant from the Simons Foundation in support of research on the biogeochemical consequences of metabolic heterogeneity and marine microbial carbon degradation.
Members of the Brown School community, including Dean Mary McKay, were honored with awards from the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy at the 5th Annual Social Work Day on the Hill in March.
Washington University in St. Louis has been named a Women in the Workplace honoree by the Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis for creating a workplace where women can thrive.
The idea of a plant-based patty being tested by Burger King makes business sense, if not health sense, to Washington University in St. Louis researchers who have studied the fast-food marketplace.
Ebony Carter, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, won a $1.625 million five-year Pathway to Stop Diabetes® grant from the American Diabetes Association. Carter will use the funding for her clinical research project, titled “Targeted lifestyle change group prenatal care for obese women at high risk for gestational […]
Researchers in Arts & Sciences have discovered and characterized a new form of oxygen dubbed “featherweight oxygen” — the lightest-ever version of the familiar chemical element oxygen, with only three neutrons to its eight protons.
