McKelvey School of Engineering

Ning Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, won a three-year $180,000 award from Intel to support work to assure availability of the Intel Trusted Edge Platform.

Washington University is partnering with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in its efforts to stimulate cultural change and support inclusive excellence in science and technology fields and is hosting a day of activities May 3 on the Danforth Campus.

Fuzhong Zhang, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, developed a method to create synthetic spider silk at high yields while retaining strength and toughness using mussel foot proteins.

A new study by researchers at the School of Medicine reveals that a connection between the body and mind is built into the structure of the brain.

Abhinav Jha, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, and his collaborators developed and evaluated two methods to quantitatively determine the realism of synthetic, or computer-generated, medical images.

Quing Zhu, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, and Matthew Mutch, MD, at the School of Medicine, have been working together to develop a new imaging technology that can help doctors determine which colorectal cancer patients’ treatments have been successful, helping some to avoid surgery. Their efforts received a $1.75 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.

For the green energy revolution to be successful, scientists must develop more cost-effective and sustainable battery technologies. Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering are spending their energy on just that.

To earn a bachelor’s degree from Washington University, students must complete at least 120 units of coursework. That number, however, does not capture the full measure of a WashU education. Many students devote just as much time and energy to clubs, sports and volunteering as they do to their academic pursuits.  Through co-curricular activities, students build […]

Lan Yang, the Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. She is among 95 new senior members who will be honored in June at the NAI’s annual meeting,

Researchers from the laboratory of Amit Pathak at the McKelvey School of Engineering found that cancer cells can sense a layer of cells beneath the top collagen layer on which they normally travel, while normal cells cannot. Their new study was published in Cell Reports.