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Sorrells wins 2024 Gold Educational Award from Edmund Optics

The award supports research and education in ultrafast optics.

03.21.2025

(Image: Aimee Felter/Washington University)

Engineering arrhythmia therapies with Jon Silva

Jon Silva leverages augmented reality, machine learning, and computational and experimental models to improve cardiac care.

03.19.2025

Super-resolution microscopy is revealing unprecedented insight into the protein structures that underlie the stability and function of the kidney filtration system. The new grant to the Miner, Genin and Suleiman labs will transform these insights into potential targets for the treatment of kidney disease. (Photo credit: Dr. Pongpratch Puapatanakul, MD, laboratory of Jeff Miner)

Interdisciplinary team harnesses mechanobiology to combat kidney disease

Guy Genin and Jeffrey Miner at WashU collaborate to uncover mechanical forces behind incurable kidney condition.

03.18.2025

What if a microscope could not tell the difference between one molecule and a pair of molecules? Similar to how the Webb Telescope discerns binary stars from the shells of cosmic dust they create, microscopes in the Lew Lab must measure both how molecules interact with polarized light and details within their polarized images to discern two molecules from one. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, Caltech)

In molecular imaging, details matter

Matthew Lew and Yiyang Chen developed a new method to improve precision in molecular imaging.

03.17.2025

Graduate student Claire Najjuuko set out to develop a machine learning model to predict which adolescents with HIV would be less likely to adhere to antiretroviral therapy. With such knowledge, health care practitioners could implement interventions for those identified as less likely to adhere to the treatment plan. (Credit: iStock photo)

Machine learning could help predict adherence to HIV treatment in adolescents

Claire Najjuuko, Chenyang Lu, Fred Ssewamala use AI to target interventions to improve compliance.

03.17.2025

Jason He and Aaron Bobick at He’s installation ceremony as the Laura and William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Jamesley Lane/Washington University)

He named Laura and William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering

Jason He is known for his work on wastewater treatment and resource recovery.

03.14.2025

Biomolecular condensates often appear like soap bubbles but are actually more like silly putty, featuring mostly elastic and viscous behaviors on different timescales. WashU researchers have devised a method to image the internal organization within condensates to arrive at a structural explanation for condensate viscoelasticity. (Image: Shutterstock).

A closer look at biomolecular ‘silly putty’

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to peer into biomolecular condensates, which could lead to a better understanding of condensate functions and their impairment in cancers and neurodegeneration.

03.13.2025

Stretching spider silk makes it stronger

New study finds the amount of stretching determines the fibers’ properties.

03.13.2025

Agarwal to receive John J. Montgomery Award for Distinguished Innovation in Aerospace

The award from ASME honors outstanding contributions to the aerospace industry.

03.13.2025

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Mar 24 11:00 am

Bridging Data and Example-Aided Ideation: A Journey Through Data Visualization Design at McKelvey 1020

Mar 24 1:00 pm

IMSE Seminar: "Gas-filled Protein Organelles: Assembly, Biophysics, and Biotechnological Applications" at Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall

Mar 26 2:30 pm

CCSN Research Methodology Workshop

Postdoctoral scholars shape academic life, bolster innovation and collaboration

Postdoctoral trainees share their experiences working in WashU’s Department of Biomedical Engineering.

03.05.2025

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

Wu named associate editor for Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy

Gang Wu to help advance catalysis and sustainable energy research as associate editor.

02.25.2025

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Sorrells wins 2024 Gold Educational Award from Edmund Optics

Engineering arrhythmia therapies with Jon Silva

Interdisciplinary team harnesses mechanobiology to combat kidney disease

In molecular imaging, details matter

Machine learning could help predict adherence to HIV treatment in adolescents

He named Laura and William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering

A closer look at biomolecular ‘silly putty’

Stretching spider silk makes it stronger

Agarwal to receive John J. Montgomery Award for Distinguished Innovation in Aerospace

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Bridging Data and Example-Aided Ideation: A Journey Through Data Visualization Design at McKelvey 1020

IMSE Seminar: "Gas-filled Protein Organelles: Assembly, Biophysics, and Biotechnological Applications" at Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall

CCSN Research Methodology Workshop

Postdoctoral scholars shape academic life, bolster innovation and collaboration

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

Wu named associate editor for Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy

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