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Apr 26 9:30 am

ESE Day 2024 at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Apr 29 1:00 pm

ESE Defense: Henri Ohl at Preston M. Green Hall

May 3 9:00 am

ESE Defense: Aarti Singh at Preston M. Green Hall

The Ursaworks team finished second at the 2024 Midwest Robomaster competition. From left to right: Adheet Ganesh, Xunhao Li, Thomas Upin, Xinshi Feng, Haoyu (Mark) Quan, Thomas Dong, Bruce Li, Steven Luyapan, Erin Chen and Anny Qiao (Photo credit: Mark Quan)

The Ursaworks Robotics Club triumphs on the battlefield

The team has upped its game since a fifth-place showing in 2023.

04.18.2024

Zhao selected for CAS Future Leaders program

Junyi Zhao was one of 35 graduate students and postdocs selected for the program.

04.15.2024

Optical sensors have been widely used in various applications, from structural health monitoring to medical diagnosis and imaging. An innovative platform, featuring a control unit operated at an exceptional point (EP), has been developed to enhance the performance of conventional optical sensors. (Credit: Yang Lab)

Innovative sensing platform unlocks ultrahigh sensitivity in conventional sensors

Lan Yang and her team have developed new plug-and-play hardware to dramatically enhance the sensitivity of optical sensors.

04.05.2024

Graduate students in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis can now earn a graduate certificate in financial engineering, which combines applied math, statistics, computer science, financial theory and economics to analyze the finance markets. (Washington University photo)

McKelvey Engineering offers graduate certificate in financial engineering

Certificate offered through Electrical & Systems Engineering, Olin Business School.

04.02.2024

Clockwise from top left: Benzinger, Culver, Oyen, Yang, Wang, Stegh (Not pictured: Elliot Elson)

Seven faculty inducted as AIMBE fellows

Michelle Oyen and Lan Yang are among this year's inductees.

03.25.2024

The pictured circle is a nucleolus, a type of cellular condensate, and the measured pH gradient. (Pappu lab)

WashU engineers manage a first: measuring pH in cell condensates

In a first for the condensate field, researchers from the lab of Rohit Pappu, and colleagues in the Center for Biomolecular Condensates figured out how nucleolar sub-structures are assembled.

03.18.2024

(Clockwise, from left) Chao Zhou, Aravind Nagalu, Lan Yang, all from McKelvey School of Engineering; Shu-Wei Huang, from the University of Colorado Boulder; Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD, and Margaret Reynolds, MD, both from Washington University School of Medicine.

WashU awarded up to $20 million to develop high-tech imaging technology

Chao Zhou leads multidisciplinary team to create portable device to scan for eye diseases.

02.08.2024

Sorrells to join Electrical & Systems Engineering in fall 2024

Janet Sorrells joins McKelvey Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

02.02.2024

Hodges receives geospatial diversity fellowship, Dean’s Select Fellowship

Master’s student Nia Hodges will receive $35,000 annually from the Taylor Geospatial Institute and will continue to a doctoral program next semester.

12.18.2023