New device better traps viruses, airborne pathogens
Washington University engineering researchers have created a new type of air-cleaning technology that could better protect human lungs from allergens, airborne viruses and ultrafine particles in the air. The device, known as the SXC ESP, was created by a team led by Pratim Biswas, PhD, the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor and chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
WUSTL leaders urge action on sequester threat
Washington University in St. Louis administrators are urging Congress and the White House to reach a compromise to avoid wide-ranging, across-the-board federal spending cuts that would take effect March 1.
Engineers Week to feature Edward Jung and Mythbusters
Engineers Week 2013 is packed with a variety of events celebrating engineers all week long. The
week, founded by the National Engineers Week Foundation, is designed to
increase the visibility of the School of Engineering & Applied
Science at the university, collaborate between various engineering
groups and promote the interaction among students, alumni, faculty,
staff and engineering professionals.
New mobile app helps students track campus shuttle
An undergraduate student at WUSTL helped create and launch a mobile app that helps students track the campus circulator shuttle. It’s called the “WUSTL Circulator,” and on its first day, it had up to four times as many downloads as typical new university apps.
Building engineers of the future
Every Tuesday afternoon, an undergraduate from WUSTL’s School of Engineering & Applied Science heads back to middle school. Nick
Okafor leads the after-school Young Engineers Club at Brittany Woods
Middle School in University City. N’Desha Scott, a sophomore majoring in
biomedical engineering, started the club last fall as a way to reach
out to middle school students from groups traditionally underrepresented
in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
Engineering’s Shen receives CAREER Award from NSF
Jung-Tsung Shen, PhD, assistant professor of electrical & systems
engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at
Washington University in St. Louis, has won a prestigious Faculty Early
Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation.
Genes provide clues to gender disparity in human hearts
Healthy men and women show little difference in their
hearts, except for small electrocardiographic disparities. But new
genetic differences found by Washington University in St. Louis
researchers in hearts with disease could ultimately lead to personalized
treatment of various heart ailments.
Faculty Achievement Award nominations sought
Nominations are being accepted for Washington University’s annual Faculty Achievement Awards, known as the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award. The Compton Award is given to a distinguished member of the faculty from one of the six Danforth Campus schools and the Cori Award to a faculty member from the School of Medicine.The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, Feb. 15.
Embedding with startups to study entrepreneurship
Washington University’s business, engineering, and law schools are collaborating on a new course in 2013 that will embed students in the center of the thriving entrepreneur community in downtown St. Louis. Students will trade their campus classroom for working space at T-REx, a new St. Louis tech incubator that offers startup companies affordable offices in the historic Railway Exchange Building.
Discovery Competition narrows teams to six
The School of Engineering & Applied Science has selected six
semifinalists to receive a $1,000 interim funding award and to go on to
compete for a $25,000 grand prize in the inaugural Discovery Competition.
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