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Tyler Cargill (right), a recent PhD graduate of WashU McKelvey Engineering, looks over air monitoring equipment on a roof in south St. Louis with his adviser, Jay Turner, the James McKelvey Professor of Engineering Education. Turner’s lab will collaborate with the city to do similar air monitoring as tornado cleanup continues. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)

WashU partners with St. Louis to expand CLEAN STL tornado recovery project

Jay Turner's lab to monitor air quality amid tornado cleanup efforts in St. Louis.

06.15.2026

Pictured: clockwise from top left, Dai, Fan, Rutz, Xu, Lagunas Vargas

Five McKelvey faculty awarded Collaboration Initiation Grants

The program supports collaborative research by junior faculty.

06.04.2026

(Left to right) Kristen Wyckoff, Olivia Richards, Bailey Vogt, Thomas Bambrick, Henry Fine and Ben Kumfer at the 2026 WERC Environmental Design Contest.

Environmental Engineering students win three awards at WERC competition

Four seniors competed in the 36th annual WERC Environmental Design Contest as a part of their capstone course.

05.26.2026

WashU engineer Feng Jiao has been working to make carbon conversion technologies more scalable for industry. Pictured is a “stack” design of CO2 electrolyzer that can convert waste carbon into other useful chemicals.

WashU Expert: Scaling up the circular economy

Engineers at Washington University are addressing the challenges to scaling up CO2 electrolysis.

05.11.2026

The hair-like fiber pictured here is a sample of SAM, silk-amyloid-mussel protein hybrid, an engineered protein polymer that can be easily recycled and reused when dropped in a solvent.

Synthetic biology leads to recyclable textiles: Engineered protein fibers for a cleaner future

Researchers develop engineered protein polymers that can be easily recycled and reused.

05.08.2026

Christopher Cooper, assistant professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering, is developing a two-step process to recycle pure and mixed plastics by breaking them down into pieces and rebuilding the pieces into new materials with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). (Credit: iStock photo)

Mixed plastic waste target of upcycling process to cut waste, emissions

Christopher Cooper tackles plastic upcycling with ARPA-E grant.

05.08.2026

WashU is launching a new universitywide initiative called +AI, led by Provost Mark West. (Credit: Shutterstock)

McKelvey Engineering faculty selected for AI Curriculum Corps

Faculty to participate in summer program to integrate or critically examine AI in classroom.

04.29.2026

A team of researchers led by Gang Wu created a new energy-efficient catalyst using two phosphides to split hydrogen from water. The image on the left shows the dry cathode anion-exchange membrane water electrolyzer (AEMWE), and the image on the right shows the connected dynamic hydrogen bond network. (Credit: Gang Wu)

WashU researchers use efficient method to split hydrogen from water for energy

Gang Wu leads team that designed new catalyst to extract valuable hydrogen.

04.14.2026

(From left): Chen, Setton, Yuan

Three McKelvey faculty elected to AAAS

Yixin Chen, Lori Setton and Joshua Yuan were among eleven WashU faculty members elected.

03.30.2026