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WUAIR participates in Formula Student AI, an autonomous driving competition that provides each team with a car and challenges them to design and implement the sensor suite and software stack that enable it to race.

WashU AI Racing in high gear for its first year

New student group offers experiences in AI, robotics and autonomous driving.

02.11.2026

Not wasting time

CSE alumnus Tej Seelamsetty is using AI to make health care communications faster, more efficient.

02.09.2026

Joshua Yuan in McKelvey Engineering and Susie Dai at the University of Missouri are on a mission to remove tiny bits of plastic pollution from our water. (Credit: Abbie Lankitus)

Lab-grown algae remove microplastics from water

Mizzou's Susie Dai has engineered special algae to remove and reuse harmful microplastics from wastewater.

02.06.2026

A hydrogen refueling station for fuel cell vehicles in California. To make the technology more affordable worldwide, WashU researchers are developing highly efficient, durable iron components for fuel cells to replace more expensive precious metals. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Making hydrogen fuel cells ‘less precious’

WashU chemical engineers work to bring stability to iron components instead of using more expensive precious metals in fuel cell technologies.

02.06.2026

A multidisciplinary team of surgeon-scientists, computer scientists and researchers developed an artificial intelligence-based approach that could help clinicians screen for and diagnose cervical spondylotic myelopathy up to 30 months earlier, opening new opportunities for earlier treatment. (iStock photo)

Clinically informed AI outperforms foundation models in spinal cord disease prediction

WashU study shows smaller, targeted models generalize better than large foundation models for early detection of cervical myelopathy.

02.02.2026

Undergraduate Charlie Rosser collects soil samples in a north St. Louis neighborhood. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)

WashU faculty, students search for hidden hazard in tornado’s path

Catalano leads effort to test lead levels in St. Louis soil.

01.30.2026

Given that more than 20 internal signals drive the behavior of a single neuron, measuring all of them is close to impossible. Jr-Shin Li’s lab and explored an alternative: What if we could measure only one signal per node? (Credit: iStock photo)

Cracking complex networks with partial data

Researchers in the lab of Jr-Shin Li develop a workaround to unearth connections between different nodes in complex networks.

01.30.2026

Hosted by the Center for Teaching & Learning, the iTeach conference featured sessions on AI pedagogy and ethics, alternative assessments and creative course design. The center hosts dozens of panels and workshops every year for faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. (Courtesy photo)

STEM Exchange to boost learning, support faculty

Effort launched at iTeach, biennial conference to improve teaching on campus.

01.23.2026

Mark Lawrence’s lab has found a way to improve the efficiency and capability of machine vision and AI diagnostics using optical systems instead of traditional digital algorithms. (Credit: Lawrence lab)

Light gives boost to image processing, optical systems

Work in Mark Lawrence’s lab has benefits to image processing with AI.

01.22.2026

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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

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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)

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