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Using statistical learning to analyze a decade of data from 31 sub-Saharan African countries, a WashU team identified key socioeconomic factors—such as maternal education and place of residence—that are strongly associated with whether mothers use available health services. (Credit: UNICEF)

Data science uncovers patterns in health service use linked to child mortality

Interdisciplinary WashU team identifies drivers of maternal and child health service use across countries.

08.22.2025

Jenna Ditto seeks to understand whether the composition of surfaces affects the growth of indoor microbes and how the metabolism of those microbes is shaped by exposure to indoor air pollutants. (Credit: Michael Schaffler, Unsplash)

Link between surfaces in buildings, indoor air quality under spotlight

Jenna Ditto to study indoor air quality, building material surfaces interaction.

08.21.2025

A technical approach to treating pain

Alumna Helen Blake applies engineering principles to improve patient care.

08.15.2025

Students from McKelvey School of Engineering tour Urban Chestnut brewery and its large bioreactors. Beer is not the only product microbes will be producing in the future. Researchers from McKelvey will be developing a way to ensure fermentation is cost-competitive for making many forms of products. (Photo: Joe Angeles/WashU).

Up to $5.2 million in DARPA funds will enable WashU to develop new biomanufacturing capabilities

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are working on giving biomanufacturers a competitive edge by solving the challenge of continuous fermentation.

Data science uncovers patterns in health service use linked to child mortality

Link between surfaces in buildings, indoor air quality under spotlight

A technical approach to treating pain

Up to $5.2 million in DARPA funds will enable WashU to develop new biomanufacturing capabilities

Roccabianca named director of Center for Women’s Health Engineering

Black carbon emissions underestimated in Global South

Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering to host inaugural Duduković Symposium

Unique fingerprints in 3D printing may foil adversaries

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

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