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Tyler Cargill (right), a recent PhD graduate of WashU McKelvey Engineering, looks over air monitoring equipment on a roof in south St. Louis with his adviser, Jay Turner, the James McKelvey Professor of Engineering Education. Turner’s lab will collaborate with the city to do similar air monitoring as tornado cleanup continues. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)

WashU partners with St. Louis to expand CLEAN STL tornado recovery project

Jay Turner's lab to monitor air quality amid tornado cleanup efforts in St. Louis.

06.15.2026

Jae Park, a doctoral student in the lab of Alexandra Rutz, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has developed a unique, dynamic platform with electricity-conducting biomaterials in which stiffness can be modulated by applying voltage. Such a platform can help researchers learn more about the potential to use conducting polymers to study mechanobiology and to study the effect of stiff environments on cells, which play a role in fibrosis and some types of cancer. (Credit: Jae Park)

New platform explored to meet emerging need in mechanobiology

Alexandra Rutz’s lab works with conducting polymers to change stiffness.

06.12.2026

WashU Racing earns best overall finish in its history

McKelvey Engineering student-led team places 25th at FSAE Michigan event.

06.10.2026

AI for Health seed grant program awards nearly $300,000 to advance AI-driven health research

Annual program supports innovative collaborations between artificial intelligence and health researchers across WashU.

06.09.2026

Lake wins Richard Skalak Award

Recognition honors best paper published in 2025 in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.

06.09.2026

Yifan Dai, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will study buffering, with a five-year, $2 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health. Specifically, Dai will focus on biomolecular condensates, which are molecular communities made up of DNA, RNA and proteins, and how they are involved with diseases. (Credit: Susan Wilkinson on Unsplash)

Inner life of cells under investigation

Yifan Dai to look at chemical processes in cells with NIH grant.

06.08.2026

Pictured: clockwise from top left, Dai, Fan, Rutz, Xu, Lagunas Vargas

Five McKelvey faculty awarded Collaboration Initiation Grants

The program supports collaborative research by junior faculty.

06.04.2026

Researchers in Chao Zhou’s lab used cardiac optogenetics to study arrhythmia and its impact on the brain noninvasively. Using highly sensitive imaging in a mouse model, they found that arrhythmia in a mouse heart alters oxygen concentration in the brain during and after arrhythmia. (Credit: Zhou lab using Manus AI)

Light, genetics provide insight into arrhythmia’s effects on brain

Chao Zhou’s lab induces on-demand arrhythmia in mouse model using light.

06.03.2026

New minor in computational artificial intelligence offered at Washington University in St. Louis

Program will prepare students for research and careers that require competence with artificial intelligence.

06.01.2026

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Jun 18 12:00 pm

Information Systems Management Part-Time Master's Virtual Information Session Hosted by the Sever Institute

Jun 22 12:30 pm

Engineering Management Part-Time Master's Virtual Information Session Hosted by the Sever Institute

Jul 3

Independence Day Holiday (no classes)

McKelvey Engineering faculty selected for AI Curriculum Corps

Faculty to participate in summer program to integrate or critically examine AI in classroom.

04.29.2026

The Sever Institute’s engineering management online program is designed to support working professionals with a science, technology, engineering and math background.

Engineering management online program ranked No. 15 nationwide

The part-time online program, offered through the Sever Institute, was recognized as among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

01.28.2026

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Innovations in engineering address clean water and air, sanitation and waste management systems and harmful pollution in many parts of the world, while outreach work continues to implement solutions worldwide, all through partnerships between engineers and those who work in public health. Image: iStock

Engineering public health

Research in McKelvey Engineering intersects with public health.

04.30.2026

Justin and Troy Ruths. Photos by Ken Smith & Ben Corda

Brothers build solid foundation at WashU

Justin and Troy Ruths leave lasting impression.

04.30.2026

The unseen war

Ning Zhang uses his cybersecurity expertise to anticipate and thwart threats in an increasingly interconnected world.

04.30.2026

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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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WashU partners with St. Louis to expand CLEAN STL tornado recovery project

New platform explored to meet emerging need in mechanobiology

WashU Racing earns best overall finish in its history

AI for Health seed grant program awards nearly $300,000 to advance AI-driven health research

Lake wins Richard Skalak Award

Inner life of cells under investigation

Five McKelvey faculty awarded Collaboration Initiation Grants

Light, genetics provide insight into arrhythmia’s effects on brain

New minor in computational artificial intelligence offered at Washington University in St. Louis

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Information Systems Management Part-Time Master's Virtual Information Session Hosted by the Sever Institute

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Engineering management online program ranked No. 15 nationwide

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