Tiny and toxic: Researchers track smaller air pollution particles across US skies
To help understand air pollution health effects, researchers in St. Louis quantified how the amount of submicron particles in the air has changed over the past 25 years.
Environmental futures
Discover some of the many environmental projects currently underway among WashU’s graduate student community, the ‘research engine of the university.’
Ethical exotics
Kahan Chavda, BSBME ’16, co-founder of Inversa, a company pioneering the field of ethically harvested leathers, workshops with Sam Fox School students on how engineering and fashion design can support endangered ecosystems.
New hydrogel treatments turn water waste into fertilizer
Environmental engineers at WashU have developed hydrogels to transform wastewater nutrients into useful feedstocks and fertilizers.
Research untangles role of stress granules in neurodegenerative disease
Researchers at WashU and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found that biomolecular condensates play a role in suppressing the effects of ALS-causing mutations.
Myosin makes the moves to keep cell processes humming along
Biomedical scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and Duke University report new insights regarding the role of movements of molecules as drivers of condensation in plant cells.
Genetic mutations in potassium ion channel target of new drug development
Researchers at WashU will study ways to fix malfunctioning ion channels responsible for neurological and heart illness.
A new approach to control light in photonic circuits
Researchers at WashU have developed a simple, efficient way to enable one-way light transmission in photonic chips.
Commencement vlog: Simone, smiles and flying mortar boards
First profiled as first-year students, four seniors captured the sights and sounds of WashU’s Commencement for a graduation day vlog.
Removing selenium from water takes iron strength
Environmental engineers at WashU have developed critical methods to remove toxic selenium from water.
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