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Sep 5 11:00 am

EECE Seminar ~ Shannon Bartelt-Hunt at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Sep 12 11:00 am

EECE Seminar ~ Jerrod A. Henderson at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Sep 19 11:00 am

EECE Seminar - Dr. Sanat K. Kumar at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

An international team of researchers led by Jian Wang, professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering, found that strong wave breaking along the shore, particularly during high wave periods, can produce large amounts of sea spray aerosols, significantly increasing both the number of cloud condensation nuclei and the mass of airborne particles in coastal regions. (Credit: Wang lab)

When waves meet the shore

Jian Wang, Shengqian Zhou look closely at sea spray aerosols from shoreline wave breaking and associated environmental implications.

08.27.2025

A multi-institutional team will develop AI-driven design of architecturally diverse and deconstructable (ADD) polymers with a three-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Their goal is to design new sustainable polymers with a diverse range of properties that can be recycled without the need for costly and inefficient separation from mixed waste streams. (Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

AI to spark new recyclable plastics design

Chris Cooper, collaborators to use AI to design new plastics that can be more easily recycled for a circular economy.

08.26.2025

Jenna Ditto seeks to understand whether the composition of surfaces affects the growth of indoor microbes and how the metabolism of those microbes is shaped by exposure to indoor air pollutants. (Credit: Michael Schaffler, Unsplash)

Link between surfaces in buildings, indoor air quality under spotlight

Jenna Ditto to study indoor air quality, building material surfaces interaction.

08.21.2025

Students from McKelvey School of Engineering tour Urban Chestnut brewery and its large bioreactors. Beer is not the only product microbes will be producing in the future. Researchers from McKelvey will be developing a way to ensure fermentation is cost-competitive for making many forms of products. (Photo: Joe Angeles/WashU).

Up to $5.2 million in DARPA funds will enable WashU to develop new biomanufacturing capabilities

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are working on giving biomanufacturers a competitive edge by solving the challenge of continuous fermentation.

08.13.2025

Global black carbon (BC) distribution from measurements and simulation using a widely used emission inventory. This map shows ground-level BC concentrations from SPARTAN measurements over 2019−2023, complementary measurements using original data screening scheme with a six-month sampling length criterion from adjacent years, and a GCHP simulation using the CEDS emission inventory for 2019. (Credit: Yuxuan Ren)

Black carbon emissions underestimated in Global South

Randall Martin, Yuxuan Ren use WashU-based SPARTAN network data to make finding.

08.05.2025

Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering to host inaugural Duduković Symposium

Special event will honor legacy of former department chair Milorad Duduković.

08.04.2025

The ubiquitous face masks discarded during the COVID-19 pandemic break down into microplastics and face further chemical changes, affecting its transport in aquatic environments. (Image: Generated in Adobe by Young-Shin Jun)

Sun exposure changes chemical fate of littered face masks

Masks physically degrade into nanoplastics but also chemically change with exposure to sunlight and metals in the surrounding environment.

07.31.2025

Brennan honored by American Society for Engineering Education

Janie Brennan receives Ray W. Fahien Award for early career excellence in chemical engineering education.

07.29.2025

LEAFF bioplastic packaging holds an apple slice. The original form of this fermented sugar-based plastic requires high temperature composting to degrade, but WashU’s engineers have a new form of this packaging that degrade into harmless organic material at room temperature. (Photo: Puneet Dhatt).

Leaf-inspired design brings bioplastics to the big leagues

Adding a layer of cellulose makes bioplastics biodegradable, and stronger.

07.28.2025