Environmental Solutions

WashU has received a three-year $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study societal resilience — how a society recovers from major shocks like the tsunami in Indonesia — in the Asia-Pacific region.

Elizabeth Swords’ second year as a Pathfinder Fellow involved lessons on environmental modernism and a 22-day trip to Madagascar, where she conducted a research project in partnership with the Missouri Botanical Garden.

External dollars solve major challenges, spark local job growth, development

Annual event fosters connections between faculty, students and industry professionals.

Two new studies by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis highlight one potential source of game-changing materials: purple bacteria that, with a little encouragement, can act like microscopic factories for bioplastics.

A collaboration of universities and industry is embarking on a bold plan to transform manufacturing toward zero or negative emissions by converting carbon dioxide ultimately into environmentally friendly chemicals and products.

Young-Shin Jun to develop novel technology to extract, recover and enrich rare earth elements from coal-based resources.

New findings from Chakrabarty lab will help make climate models more accurate as massive wildfires become more common.

Fuzhong Zhang’s lab explores Adenosine-5’-triphosphate (ATP)’s role in biomanufacturing.

Alumnus Deko Devins is on a mission to make solar power more widespread, affordable and accessible.