McKelvey School of Engineering

Researchers at Washington University are studying how to turbo-charge microbial bioproduction.

Twelve recent alumni of Washington University in St. Louis earned Fulbright awards to travel abroad to teach English or to conduct research in the 2024-25 academic year.

Researchers at Washington University can more effectively study mutations that cause heart disease by putting stem cells through their paces. Their research offers insight into the origins of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Leah Rae Vandiver Czerniewski, a doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University died after a long illness Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She was 34.

An award from OpenAI will aid researchers at Washington University in St. Louis to better train powerful machine learning models.

Researchers at McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a vastly more productive way to convert carbon dioxide into useful materials and compounds.

Yiannis Kantaros, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, has received a five-year $591,457 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation to address limitations to robot autonomy.

Researchers at Washington University have developed a noninvasive technology combining a holographic acoustic device with genetic engineering that allows them to precisely target affected neurons in the brain.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, in collaboration with the McKelvey School of Engineering, will launch a new Master of Design for Human-Computer Interaction and Emerging Technology in fall 2025. Housed in Weil Hall, it will be the first STEM-designated graduate program situated within the Sam Fox School’s College of Art.

Biomedical engineer Abhinav Jha, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering and of radiology at the School of Medicine, both at Washington University in St. Louis, has published two papers recently related to improving imaging methods for medical applications.