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With expertise in how environments affect people’s active lives, Reis leads WashU’s People, Health & Place Unit

This WashU program taps into a simple solution using household water filters to monitor and track safety.

Each year, the month of October is marked by Halloween traditions. People of all ages dress up in costumes, carve pumpkins, host parties, or go trick-or-treating with family. However, the ecological impact of Halloween is frighteningly high, as many costumes and decorations end up in landfills after one use.

In August, the WashU Office of Sustainability kicked off an academic year of student-driven environmental change with its SPARK leadership program.

Through transdisciplinary collaboration, the organization’s three working groups are redefining the region’s relationship with nature.

Chance encounter inspired team of biologists to study lizards with missing, reduced limbs

Annual event brings together faculty, students and industry professionals to discuss water research

Soy proteins are used in plant-based natural polymers meant to eventually supplant plastic materials. But to compete with the petrochemical-based products, such polymers need to be stronger and less brittle.

Experts on biodiversity, food security, nutrition policy discuss ways to jointly promote sustainable agriculture, improved nutrition.

Seven members of the Department of Biology have received Maximizing Investigators’ Research Awards (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).