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Oct 31 11:00 am

EECE Seminar - Dr. Paul Wennberg at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Nov 7 11:00 am

EECE Seminar - Susan D. Richardson, Ph.D. at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Nov 14 11:00 am

EECE Seminar - Lauren Stadler, Ph.D. at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, led by Rajan Chakrabarty, professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering, are leading one of the three technical areas on a contract for up to $40 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to a multi-institutional research team led by researchers at Virginia Tech.

WashU to lead bioaerosol sensor development on up to $40 million federal contract to revolutionize clean indoor air

WashU researchers to contribute to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health-funded research to create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25%, defend against next pandemic.

10.16.2025

(From left) Marcus Foston, professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering, with Zhenqin “Jerry” Wang, in Foston's Bioproducts Engineering Lab. (Photo: Jerry Naunheim)

Strengthening soy for better bioplastics

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis using surface chemistry to improve the strength of soy and cellulose-based biomaterials.

09.19.2025

Dan Giammar and colleagues will be examining water filters and contaminants as part of the next phase of Trusted Tap. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU) Dan Giammar (from right to left), Ph.D. students Zehua Wang, Qi Yang and Yihang Yuan work outside Giammar’s lab. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU).

WashU’s Trusted Tap will empower households to monitor water quality

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are undertaking an ambitious project to improve how households monitor their tap water.

09.17.2025

Researchers in Elijah Thimsen’s lab in the McKelvey School of Engineering has shown that carbon monoxide is a more promising starting source for producing organic acids than carbon dioxide. (Credit: Alcina Johnson Sudagar)

Plasma: The fourth state of matter drives sustainable carbon upcycling

Research in Elijah Thimsen’s lab shows benefits of carbon monoxide in creating organic acids.

09.15.2025

Aerial view of fermentation tanks used in industrial sewage treatment. WashU researchers will investigate adding light to tanks such as these to further increase production of volatile fatty acids from sludge. (Photo: Shutterstock)

A silver lining in sewer sludge: volatile fatty acids

WashU researchers find ways to more efficiently reclaim useful feedstock from waste.

09.11.2025

Zhang named Francis Ahmann Professor

Fuzhong Zhang uses synthetic biology to produce advanced biofuels, chemicals, new materials from sustainable resources.

09.03.2025

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