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Sep 19 11:00 am

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

Sep 26 11:00 am

EECE Seminar - Dr. Umit S. Ozkan, Ph.D., P.E. at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Sep 30 4:30 pm

Installation of Fuzhong Zhang as the Francis F. Ahmann Professor at Danforth Campus

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

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