Efficient lithium-air battery under development to speed electrification of vehicles Xianglin Li leads team with $1.5 million from ARPA-E for next-generation, high-energy battery
Feature or flaw? Breast cancer cells remember low-oxygen environments Amit Pathak’s lab investigates how breast cancer cells use memory of hypoxic tumors to move through dense tissue. 07.02.2025
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
Friend named chair of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis Acclaimed researcher James Friend to join McKelvey School of Engineering in 2026. 06.26.2025
WashU Satellite selected for federally funded spacecraft development program Student group will receive $50,000, summer internships. 06.03.2025
Four McKelvey faculty win Collaboration Initiation Grants The one-year awards promote collaborative research within the university. 05.14.2025
Inaugural AI for Health seed funding program awards nearly $300,000 Program from AI for Health Institute, Here and Next supports interdisciplinary research in AI and health. 05.07.2025
The mysterious chemical world inside nanopores Young-Shin Jun, Srikanth Singamaneni’s labs look at contaminants in nanopores. 04.30.2025
Class Acts: Gaelen Clayton McKelvey Engineering student loves being part of team, on the field and in the classroom. 04.29.2025