Environmental Solutions

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.

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.

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.

Jason He, the Laura and William Jens Professor of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, wanted to find more efficient ways to get riches out of the rubbish.

October is one of two Active Transportation Months (ATM) at WashU hosted by Parking & Transportation, Office of Sustainability, and WUSM Operations & Facilities Management.

A cross-disciplinary team of WashU researchers has received a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand its work studying the human health effects of flooding in communities in the Mississippi Delta and the St. Louis Metro East region of Illinois.

Imagine a world in which all types of plastic containers, packaging, carbon-fiber composite bikes and knee implants could be recycled together as a single processing stream.

The process of biomanufacturing requires engineering microbes to produce useful chemicals and materials from carbon-neutral processes. But current biomanufacturing cannot get beyond small-production scale unless it can outcompete big oil.