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Sep 4 10:00 am

BME Seminar Series: Shalani Prasad at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Sep 11 10:00 am

BME Seminar: Innovations in the Theranostic Drug Development Paradigm at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Sep 25 10:00 am

BME Seminar: Xueding Wang at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

A technical approach to treating pain

Alumna Helen Blake applies engineering principles to improve patient care.

08.15.2025

Roccabianca named director of Center for Women’s Health Engineering

Sara Roccabianca will lead the interdisciplinary center advancing novel approaches to women’s health.

08.12.2025

Clockwise from top left: Anastasio, Fan, Friend, Wang, Sharma, Nurollahian, Holdener

New faculty to join McKelvey Engineering for 2025-26 academic year

The new faculty include a new chair for Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science.

08.01.2025

A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis is in pursuit of translating induced, or synthetic, torpor into potential solutions for humans, such as when there is reduced blood flow to tissues or organs, to preserve organs for transplantation or to protect from radiation during space travel. (Credit: Chen lab)

WashU Expert: Synthetic torpor has potential to redefine medicine

Hong Chen’s lab advancing synthetic torpor with focused ultrasound.

07.31.2025

Career Catalysts: WashU stipends fund internships, fuel professional growth

Student is helping local startup Equine Smartbit build a 'smartwatch' for horses.

07.31.2025

McKelvey Engineering faculty members awarded Spring 2025 Here and Next Seed Grants

Faculty members from wide range of engineering disciplines among winners.

06.30.2025

The trip allowed time to visit cultural destinations, including Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. (Back, l-r) Eric Yang, Emily Shen, Katie Auyeung, Audrey Aulino, Jin-Yu Shao, Brandon Qiao, Matthew Tang. Front (l-r) Brooklin Sachs, Caitlyn Garofoli, Dani Hoyt, Justin Yu.

Biomedical engineering students share international service-learning experience

Brandon Qiao and Katie Auyeung were among students who traveled to Hong Kong and mainland China to build custom orthoses for pediatric patients.

06.09.2025

Chen elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America

Honor recognizes groundbreaking work in the field of medical ultrasound.

05.29.2025

Biomolecular condensates often appear like shapeshifting droplets but have important jobs to do in the cell including potentially suppressing effects of mutations that cause neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). (Photo: Shutterstock)

Research untangles role of stress granules in neurodegenerative disease

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis found that stabilizing stress granules suppresses the effects of ALS-causing mutations, correcting previous models that imply stress granules promote amyloid formation.

05.28.2025