McKelvey School of Engineering

Computer science researchers at Washington University in St. Louis were honored for a paper that has made a longstanding impact on the field of embedded software.

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Sept. 19, numerous faculty members were appointed, promoted or granted tenure, with most taking effect that day.

With a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a multi-institutional research team led by scientists at Virginia Tech and Washington University in St. Louis will develop an indoor air device to disrupt transmission of infectious disease.

Fuzhong Zhang, a renowned expert in synthetic biology, has been named the Francis F. Ahmann Professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

The College Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recently celebrated the 2025 winners and finalists of the James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize.

Using advanced biophysical and imaging techniques, Meredith Jackrel and her team at Washington University in St. Louis have isolated the protein Matrin-3 to better understand its role in neurodegenerative diseases.

Biomedical engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are tackling the question of how oxygenation happened on primordial earth in a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Three WashU investigators have been recognized with prestigious awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which supports unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

What is artificial intelligence good at? What is it not good at? How might it reshape the employment landscape? Last spring, WashU’s Ian Bogost interviewed Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, chief technology officer at Meta, and others for Bogost’s class “How AI Will Change Your Career.”

James “Jim” Clark Ballard, a former senior lecturer and director of the Engineering Communication Center in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, died Sept. 29 in St. Louis following a sudden cardiac arrest. He was 79.