Green Rehab project promotes a more sustainable university
http://youtu.be/qmQ_6xHWK6QIn the United States, buildings account for 36% of total energy usage and 65% of electrical consumption. For architects, engineers and property owners alike, improving energy...
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Creating plants that make their own fertilizer
James Byard/WUSTLNancy Duan (left), Michelle Liberton and Lingxia Zhao are members of Himadri Pakrasi's team, which has taken the first proof-of-principle steps toward inserting the genes needed to fix...
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Fall Assembly Series offers intelligent voices on issues of the day
Notes from No Man's Land author Eula Biss visits campus on Sept. 9 to discuss her book, the First Year Reading Program selection. Biss kicks off the fall Assembly Series program schedule.Human health,...
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New Climate Change Initiative to be led by Peter Raven
Washington University in St. Louis is launching a Climate Change Initiative (WUCCI) aimed at expanding scientific research, education and public understanding of global climate change.Raven A signature...
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Blue-green algae a five-tool player in converting waste to fuel
In the baseball world, a superstar can do five things exceptionally well: hit, hit for power, run, throw and field.Fuzhong Zhang In the parallel universe of the microbiological world, there is a...
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‘Seeing it in practice’: Engineering students learned around the world in...
At Washington University in St. Louis, students in the School of Engineering & Applied Science learn more than how to be an engineer. With opportunities to go abroad to get hands-on experience...
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Zhang receives prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award
Because petroleum is a limited resource worldwide, Fuzhong Zhang, PhD, has been working to find alternative solutions to replace it. Now, he has received an $860,000 award to use common bacteria to...
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Iron uptake by plants focus of I-CARES grant
Both humans and plants need iron in their diets, or else they get sick and don’t grow. Humans can eat iron-rich foods or a supplement, but for plants, the process is more complicated, as iron in the...
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Shining a little light changes metal into semiconductor
By blending their expertise, two materials science engineers at Washington University in St. Louis changed the electronic properties of new class of materials — just by exposing it to light.This image...
View ArticleChancellor Wrighton, President Wolfe’s letter to Missouri’s leaders in...
The following letter was co-written by WUSTL Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Timothy M. Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri System, and sent last month to the 10 members of Missouri’s...
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Wrighton joins other university leaders urging Washington to close...
Joe Angeles/wustl photosResearch being conducted at WUSTL’s state-of-the-art Ultrafast Laser Facility will lead to the development of more efficient solar energy technologies. Urging leaders in...
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Committed to Saving the Planet?
The Online College Database has named Washington University in St. Louis one of “50 Colleges Committed to Saving the Planet.” The university earned a place on the list because of its Environmental...
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Next up for Assembly Series: Bilal Bomani on developing next generation of...
BomaniBilal Mark McDowell Bomani, PhD, senior research scientist at the NASA Glenn Research Center, will deliver the 17th annual Chancellor’s Fellowship Conference Lecture for the Assembly Series....
View ArticleEntrepreneurship ingrained in students as soon as they arrive on campus
Freshman Andrew Camel has been involved with computers and computer programming since he was 12 years old, when he designed his first app.When looking at college options, he focused on places that...
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Balloon-borne astronomy experiment X-Calibur racing to hit wind window
http://youtu.be/0p7h7Ius91UMatthias Beilicke, PhD, research assistant professor of physics, and Fabian Kislat, PhD, postdoctoral research associate in physics, assemble an X-ray polarimeter named...
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Model organism gone wild
Photo Courtesty of Joan StrassmannResearch scientist Debra Brock collecting soil samples that might contain wild D. discoideum clones at the biological field station in Mountain Lake, Va. It turns out...
View ArticleURSA grants awarded to six teams
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) has announced the six winners of the 2013 University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA) grants. URSA grants provide one-year, $25,000 seed funding...
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WUSTL to host environmental engineering conference
Public health, the economy, recreation, residential and business development, utility bills, taxes and other aspects of everyday life are all impacted by air quality, clean water and management of...
View ArticleTwo new NSF grants allow Bayly to study brain biomechanics
http://youtu.be/U5NGGf-hmkgRuth Okamoto, DSc, senior research associate in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, uses a common "biomaterial" to mimic the brain inside the skull and explain...
View ArticleMedical startup hatched at Washington University continues strong performance
http://youtu.be/zBGm83pNxuoSchool of Engineering & Applied Science alumni Andrew Brimer and Abigail Cohen discuss their project, Sparo Labs, which recently won the $150,000 CIMIT Student Technology...
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