Planetary Health

WashU seismologist Doug Wiens discovered that unexpected movements of the Ross Ice Shelf are triggered by the sudden slipping of parts of the Whillans Ice Stream.

Archaeologist Xinyi Liu’s field work on the Tibetan Plateau, inner Mongolia and regions across Central Asia has contributed to a better understanding of the globalization of food in deep antiquity and its biological and social consequences.

A program, Public Health & Society, will bring together academic units within Arts & Sciences, WashU’s institutional strength in public health, and the university’s enhanced commitment to racial diversity and inclusion.

Foston takes detailed look at lignin disassembly on path to replace petroleum with renewables

Scientists at WashU are developing a prototype for an instrument for a future Moon mission with support from a nearly $3 million grant from NASA.

Xianglin Li leads team with $1.5 million from ARPA-E for next-generation, high-energy battery

Working with partners in China, Malaysia and Thailand, biologists in Arts & Sciences determined that weedy rice is crossbreeding with wild rice in Southeast Asia.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at WashU will present this exbibition Feb. 23 through July 29. It consists of 52 canvases that Sierra placed on the floor of a city building, highlighting the contaminants that can poison the urban environment.

The soils in many iconic Australian landscapes are colored red by an abundant mineral known as goethite. This mineral tends to lock away trace metals over time, according to WashU research.

Kimberly Parker, an assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, studies dicamba in the lab under different variables to determine the mechanisms behind how it turns into vapor, a process called volatilization.