Moon elected to engineering biology council
Tae Seok Moon, associate professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been elected to the council of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium.
The ‘Final 40’
Three graduates document their final days as Washington University students.
Saving front-line workers
In the early days of the pandemic, personal protective equipment was in short supply in the U.S., and its availability continues to be a problem globally, leaving health-care workers and their communities exposed. Jennifer DeLaney, MD ’97, has been on a remarkable journey leading a local effort to help.
Mark Franklin, former professor of engineering, 81
Mark A. Franklin, former professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the McKelvey School of Engineering, who taught for four decades, died May 25 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease in Berkeley, Calif. He was 81.
Google supports Agonafer’s data center cooling tech
Google is supporting the research of Damena Agonafer, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, citing his work on evaporative cooling.
New research finds 1M deaths in 2017 attributable to fossil fuel combustion
An international team of researchers, including faculty in the McKelvey School of Engineering, has determined what sources contribute to pollution and the health effects they have on global, regional and smaller scales.
Rudra receives NSF CAREER Award
Jai Rudra, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to study chirality in nanomaterials and ultimately help design safer synthetic nanomaterial vaccines.
Wallace Diboll, former professor of mechanical engineering, 97
Wallace “Wally” Diboll, a former professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering who taught for 37 years, died Friday, May 7, 2021, of congestive heart failure in St. Louis. He was 97.
NIH awards Brent nearly $2M
Michael Brent at the McKelvey School of Engineering plans to make a new map and model of the information-processing machinery in cells with a five-year nearly $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
New method predicts chemotherapy effectiveness after one treatment
An interdisciplinary team at Washington University finds that combining certain data after a patient’s first treatment can predict how a breast cancer tumor is responding to chemotherapy.
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