Planetary Health

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.

A new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Sichuan University in China traces the roots of the longstanding cultural interactions across the Tibetan Plateau to prehistoric times, as early as the Bronze Age.

Despite efforts to reduce the use of plastic or recycle it, most plastic produced in the world ends up in landfills, the oceans or dumped, bringing with it catastrophic effects on the environment, the ecosystem and the economy. To address this, a team of researchers has established the Synthetic Biology Manufacturing of Advanced Materials Research Center.