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Chen named finalist for Sony Women in Technology Award

Hong Chen is a renowned expert in focused ultrasound.

11.20.2025

Clockwise from top left: Alfaro, Barnett, Cher, Xue and Cox

Five McKelvey Engineering graduate students selected for Olin-Chancellor’s Fellowships

Program recognizes second-year doctoral students with exceptional academic and research accomplishments.

11.18.2025

Clockwise from top left: faculty members Pappu and Zhang, students Treiman, Najjuuko and Kim

McKelvey Engineering faculty, students receive Provost’s Research Excellence Award

Honor recognizes exemplary researchers and scholars across the university.

11.13.2025

Clockwise from top left: Jiao, Martin, Pappu, Yang, Wu

Five researchers from McKelvey Engineering among the world’s most cited

The faculty rank in the top 1% by citations for their field in the past decade.

11.13.2025

Using unsupervised machine learning, researchers in Rohit Pappu’s lab uncovered a finite number of grammars referred to as GIN clusters. The analysis showed that specific GIN clusters were associated with determining the localization preferences of proteins in cells. They also help explain the functional organization at the molecular level and temporal ordering of key molecular processes such as the production of ribosomes, which are the protein translation machines. (Credit: Pappu lab)

Decoding the language of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins and their roles in human cancers

Kiersten Ruff, Matthew King in Rohit Pappu’s lab use machine learning to reveal findings.

11.12.2025

Fiber-optic technology is being refined for brain research. WashU engineers have developed a way to vastly expand the utility of a single fiber-optic line that can fit in the brain. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Prime time for fiber optics to take a deep dive into brain circuits

A new fiber-optic device to study how large-scale brain circuits drive behavior.

11.05.2025

Armor Medical wins MedTech Innovator Grand Prize

Startup developing wearable sensors for early detection of postpartum hemorrhage.

10.21.2025

Pictured: left to right, Myles (Max) Miller, Cameron Freeman and Nicolas Chicoine

Biomedical Engineering alumni win first place in Collegiate Inventors Competition

2025 graduates will receive $10,000 prize, patent acceleration certificate.

10.17.2025

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