McKelvey School of Engineering

The Water Environment Federation has named Zhen “Jason” He a 2022 fellow.

A new technological pairing from the lab of Quing Zhu at the McKelvey School of Engineering may lead to an improved diagnostic tool for colorectal cancer.

A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow Amit Pathak to take a closer look at how certain cells use priming and memory to respond to new tissues.

Kimberly Parker at the McKelvey School of Engineering will use a grant from the Herman Frasch Foundation for Chemical Research to better understand dicamba volatilization.

Fuzhong Zhang, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use a National Science Foundation grant to more closely study the muscle fiber titin, along with other exotic materials.

The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Joshua Yuan and collaborators have developed a plant-based material to help safely clean up harmful “forever chemicals.”

Washington University’s Michael Greenberg, Kory J. Lavine, MD. PhD, and Nathaniel D. Huebsch have received a three-year $300,000 grant from the American Heart Association to study the immune system in cardiac disease pathogenesis and repair.

Alvitta Ottley, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, recently received the Young Researcher and Best Short Paper awards at the EuroVis annual visualization conference. The awards recognize Ottley’s research in creating personalized and adaptive visualization systems.

The National Science Foundation is investing $3 million in a new graduate student training program for aspiring scientists and educators who want to explore careers in quantum science at St. Louis-area research laboratories, private companies and other facilities.

The American Heart Association has recognized the McKelvey School of Engineering’s Jonathan Silva with its Established Investigator Award. The five-year $400,000 award will support his work into precision medicine for patients with irregular heartbeat.