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Wang receives 2025 Google PhD Fellowship

Ruiqi Wang recognized for innovation in AI to advance human health.

10.23.2025

Christine M. O'Brien

Armor Medical wins MedTech Innovator Grand Prize

Startup developing wearable sensors for early detection of postpartum hemorrhage.

10.21.2025

Doug Shook, teaching professor in computer science & engineering, works with students in a CSE1301 studio. (Credit: Channing Suhl)

Learning the language

CSE1301 introduces students to computer science programming.

10.20.2025

Pictured: left to right, Myles (Max) Miller, Cameron Freeman and Nicolas Chicoine

Biomedical Engineering alumni win first place in Collegiate Inventors Competition

2025 graduates will receive $10,000 prize, patent acceleration certificate.

10.17.2025

Pictured: left to right, Walt Baxter, Myles (Max) Miller, Cameron Freeman and Nicolas Chicoine

Alumni take first place in Biomedical Engineering Society design competition

Group’s invention detects presence of peanut allergens in under a minute.

10.16.2025

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, led by Rajan Chakrabarty, professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering, are leading one of the three technical areas on a contract for up to $40 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to a multi-institutional research team led by researchers at Virginia Tech.

WashU to lead bioaerosol sensor development on up to $40 million federal contract to revolutionize clean indoor air

WashU researchers to contribute to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health-funded research to create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25%, defend against next pandemic.

10.16.2025

Washington University researchers have shown discovered why cells communicate mechanically through the extracellular matrix, but only within a critical distance of approximately 100-200 micrometers. When cells are close enough, their contractile forces recruit and align collagen fibers into stiffened "tension bands" (visible as aligned fibers between cells) that transmit mechanical signals between neighbors, while cells beyond this threshold (right pair) remain mechanically isolated despite being in the same tissue. This distance-dependent mechanical communication drives a sharp phase transition where tissues switch from disordered to coordinated states, explaining why fibrotic diseases often progress in abrupt jumps. Scale bar 10 micrometers. (Credit: Wenyu Kong, Tsinghua University)

Tissue ‘tipping points’: How cells collectively switch from healthy to disease states

Collaborative research from Guy Genin’s lab and Tsinghua University identifies phase transitions in living tissue that could explain why fibrosis suddenly accelerates.

10.14.2025

Rohit Pappu

WashU chemists reveal new insights into ALS-linked protein

Using advanced biophysical and imaging techniques, Meredith Jackrel and her team have isolated Matrin-3 to better understand its role in neurodegenerative diseases.

10.14.2025

Anna Goestenkors, a doctoral student in Alexandra Rutz’s lab, fabricates novel granular hydrogels composed of microparticles that could be injected into the body, spread over tissues or used to encapsulate cells and tissue all while being electronically conducting for monitoring and stimulating biological activity. (Credit: Anna Goestenkors)

Extrudable hydrogels act as bioelectronic conductors

Research in Alexandra Rutz’s lab creates hydrogels that could measure biological activity.

10.13.2025

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IMSE Seminar: "Thermal Transport in Atomically Thin Materials" Dr. Erik Henriksen, Washington University in St. Louis at Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall

Computer Science & Engineering PhD Virtual Information Session

Division of Computational & Data Sciences PhD Virtual Information Session

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Mbatai wins Dean James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize

Sophomore Izzy Mbatai has been awarded the Dean James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize from the College of Arts & Sciences and the College Writing Program.

10.17.2025

Habib Chamoun (left) learned about an opportunity to teach at the Sever Institute through his son, Antoine.

Sever professor pursues global mission in engineering education, negotiation

Habib Chamoun shares Sever connection with his son, Antoine.

10.06.2025

John Gleaves, former chemical engineering faculty, 79

Gleaves was co-inventor of the TAP reactor system.

06.18.2025

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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

Image: Mark Ross

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

Hong Chen

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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