Research and stories

Nicholas Thornburg’s BS ’12 career advancing chemistry and technology to foster energy growth started at WashU in the fall of 2008 with a curveball.

A simple question brought together two separate areas of deep, complex expertise to advance critical research: does anyone at WashU research air quality?

Open to the public, the tours spotlight iconic trees, fall colors and campus biodiversity

Apple varieties have much to gain from traits found in their wild cousins

From listening to farmers in Benin to training community researchers in Papua New Guinea to connecting planetary health scholars at WashU, Mandeville works to create a healthy planet for populations

Faculty members Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen have won the 2026 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize for “Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley.”

As climate change brings more extreme weather events, strengthening families before disasters strike can help protect children’s health and well-being

At the Living Earth Collaborative’s annual Nature City Symposium, three student teams drew on regional expertise to develop new approaches to trees, green space and urban design.

WashU engineers developed new design principles for carbon fiber manufacturing.

Sara Malone and Lindsay Stark are the inaugural faculty scholars of the Ryan Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Solutions.