Research and stories

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.

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.

At a time when advancing research is more challenging than ever, seven environmental research centers, institutes and initiatives from across the country came together to keep environmental progress on track.

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.

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

Water utilities regularly monitor drinking water supplies. But once water enters the individual plumbing of households, there are no checks on what’s coming out of the tap.