Rethinking the waste in water
Young-Shin Jun and her team at the McKelvey School of Engineering see untapped resources in the chemical compounds in highly saline wastewater.
Can we improve the way the world eats?
Iannotti and her E3 Nutrition Lab at WashU investigate maternal and child nutrition by examining the impact of nutrient-rich foods that are locally sourced and affordable.
Linda C. Samuels Named Director of Sustainable Design and Environmental Justice for WashU Sam Fox School
Linda C. Samuels, professor and chair of urban design at the Sam Fox School at WashU, has been named the inaugural director of sustainable design and environmental justice at the school.
The infrastructure of fragmentation
In this Q&A, Heyda discusses Ferguson, the built environment and the roots of underlying systems.
Artificial intelligence meets cartography
Graduate students in Nathan Jacobs’ lab presented mapping tools to create satellite images from text prompts at EarthVision 2024.
Altered carbon points toward sustainable manufacturing
Feng Jiao scaled up carbon dioxide conversion process to a much larger scale.
Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering group sees St. Louis through new eyes
A group of students, faculty and staff visited various sites in St. Louis with Bob Hansman, and learned more about the history of neighborhoods just a few miles from the Danforth Campus.
Peering into Pluto’s ocean
Graduate student Alex Nguyen calculated the depth and density of the solar system’s most mysterious and remote body of water.
Chakrabarty, collaborators win Simons Foundation International grant for geoengineering
Rajan Chakrabarty, Rohan Mishra and Lu Xu will explore stratospheric aerosol injection with a $1.5 million grant from the Simons Foundation International.
Quantum physics may help lasers see through fog, aid in communications
An engineer in the McKelvey School of Engineering at WashU is implementing quantum technology to develop ways that lasers can operate effectively in environments with adverse conditions.