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New faculty to join McKelvey Engineering for 2025-26 academic year

The new faculty include a new chair for Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science.

08.01.2025

A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis is in pursuit of translating induced, or synthetic, torpor into potential solutions for humans, such as when there is reduced blood flow to tissues or organs, to preserve organs for transplantation or to protect from radiation during space travel. (Credit: Chen lab)

WashU Expert: Synthetic torpor has potential to redefine medicine

Hong Chen’s lab advancing synthetic torpor with focused ultrasound.

07.31.2025

Career Catalysts: WashU stipends fund internships, fuel professional growth

Student is helping local startup Equine Smartbit build a 'smartwatch' for horses.

07.31.2025

The ubiquitous face masks discarded during the COVID-19 pandemic break down into microplastics and face further chemical changes, affecting its transport in aquatic environments. (Image: Generated in Adobe by Young-Shin Jun)

Sun exposure changes chemical fate of littered face masks

Masks physically degrade into nanoplastics but also chemically change with exposure to sunlight and metals in the surrounding environment.

07.31.2025

Chemist Alex Quillin is working on a project that will get a significant boost under a new collaboration agreement that Washington University in St. Louis has signed with science and technology company MilliporeSigma. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)

WashU, MilliporeSigma sign collaboration agreement

07.30.2025

Brennan honored by American Society for Engineering Education

Janie Brennan receives Ray W. Fahien Award for early career excellence in chemical engineering education.

07.29.2025

Jiao named ACS Fellow

Feng Jiao was elected a 2025 American Chemical Society Fellow.

07.28.2025

LEAFF bioplastic packaging holds an apple slice. The original form of this fermented sugar-based plastic requires high temperature composting to degrade, but WashU’s engineers have a new form of this packaging that degrade into harmless organic material at room temperature. (Photo: Puneet Dhatt).

Leaf-inspired design brings bioplastics to the big leagues

Adding a layer of cellulose makes bioplastics biodegradable, and stronger.

07.28.2025

Xu receives AIChE Early Career Award

Lu Xu won the 2025 Environmental Division Early Career Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

07.14.2025

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John Gleaves, former chemical engineering faculty, 79

Gleaves was co-inventor of the TAP reactor system.

06.18.2025

BME professor participates in data rescue

05.14.2025

Matthew Bersi (right) works with a student in the Soft Tissue Biomechanics Lab. (Photo: Whitney Curtis)

Bersi named 2025 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Matthew Bersi has been recognized by the Biomedical Engineering Society as an innovative and impactful junior faculty member in bioengineering.

04.03.2025

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Hong Chen, her collaborators and her lab members have been using focused ultrasound to deliver drugs to the brain, to treat brain diseases and to aid in noninvasive brain liquid biopsy for the molecular diagnosis of brain diseases. Photo by Douglas Garfield

Wonderland

Focused ultrasound making strides in diagnosis, unlocking potential treatment of brain disorders.

06.05.2025

Kahan Chavda, who earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering in 2016, is a co-founder and chief commercial officer of Inversa, which is working to manage invasive species in a unique way. Photo by Lisa Beth Anderson

How fashion could heal the planet

06.05.2025

Clockwise from left: Avery Cohen, Geoffrey Goffman, Sophie Fendler and Jack Galloway assemble the ground station frame. Photos by Jerry Naunheim

On a mission

WashU Satellite has big plans for its spaceflight technologies.

06.05.2025

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Katie Auyeung, a Washington University junior engineering major from Chicago, right, and Zachary Fine, a sophomore biomedical engineering major from Silver Spring, Md., left, help Craig Oberle, of Florissant, put on a device they invented that would help limit his hand tremors at the end of the school’s annual Make-a-Thon program on Thursday in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood. (Brian Munoz / St. Louis Public Radio)

Students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz

This year's Make-a-Thon yielded eight projects.

02.26.2025

In the media: Mysterious blobs found inside cells are rewriting the story of how life works

Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell.

01.22.2025

In the Media: New Technique for Diagnosing Brain Diseases is Successfully Put to the Test

HEC Science & Technology explores Hong Chen's new method of detecting Alzheimer's disease.

07.31.2023

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New faculty to join McKelvey Engineering for 2025-26 academic year

WashU Expert: Synthetic torpor has potential to redefine medicine

Career Catalysts: WashU stipends fund internships, fuel professional growth

Sun exposure changes chemical fate of littered face masks

WashU, MilliporeSigma sign collaboration agreement

Brennan honored by American Society for Engineering Education

Jiao named ACS Fellow

Leaf-inspired design brings bioplastics to the big leagues

Xu receives AIChE Early Career Award

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Bersi named 2025 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

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Wonderland

How fashion could heal the planet

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Students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz

In the media: Mysterious blobs found inside cells are rewriting the story of how life works

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