‘Elegance in simplicity:’ A prototype is born
Students in the McKelvey School of Engineering at WashU designed prototypes for a device that could help environmental engineers monitor the air quality impact of factory farms in Missouri.
Center for the Environment welcomes campus community during kickoff events
Washington University in St. Louis’ Center for the Environment, a key initiative of the university’s strategic plan “Here and Next,” will host a weeklong series of kickoff events next month designed to encourage the entire campus community to become more familiar with WashU’s work to advance environmental research.
Guérin wins grant to enhance atmospheric simulation speed
Roch Guerin, professor, and collaborators received an NSF grant to improve speed of GEOS-Chem, a 3D atmospheric simulation software designed to study climate change.
WashU team to study virus transmission, human-wildlife interaction
Red colobus monkeys are the most threatened group of African monkeys. A Washington University in St. Louis team will model viral transmission dynamics among red colobus monkeys and their human neighbors near Kibale National Park, Uganda. The collaboration got its start with support from Arts & Sciences under its Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures research cluster, “The Human-Wildlife Interface.”
WashU students contribute to biomanufacturing in space
Many kids dream of being astronauts when they grow up, but Millie Savage is contributing to something bigger: helping future space explorers manufacture their own supplies in space conditions.
Roots of diversity: How underground fungi shape forests
A large study involving 43 research plots in the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) Network — including a swath of trees at Tyson Research Center — has helped clarify the power of underground fungi to shape forests.
WashU Expert: Four factors that drove 2023’s extreme heat
The year 2023 was the hottest in recorded history. WashU professor Michael Wysession explains four factors that drove 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters — and what this means for the future.
For the birds
Nathan Jacobs leads team that developed BirdSAT, a tool for classification and ecological mapping of global bird species.
Some mosquitoes like it hot
Mosquito heat tolerance varies by population, according to a new study; findings could change estimates of vector-borne disease risk.
New tool to enable exploration of human-environment interactions
This universal device will allow transdisciplinary collaboration globally. Named for the dahlia flower whose petals bloom in concentric arrays, the dahliagram’s “petals” illustrate the relative impact of different pull and push factors contributing to human behavior over time.