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Amazon smart speaker Echo records user voice commands to train its AI assistant Alexa. Going forward, consumers will not have the option to opt out of those recordings being processed in the Amazon cloud. (Photo: Shutterstock)

WashU Expert: How Alexa is listening

Users of Amazon’s smart speaker lose opt-out option for voice command recordings.

03.26.2025

Stopping cell protrusions pictured here at the early stages of extracellular matrix formation inhibits activation of fibroblasts and unwanted fibrosis. (Image credit: Center for Engineering Mechanobiology).

The right moves to reign in fibrosis

WashU sets the stage for medical treatments via mechanical forces.

03.25.2025

Christine Julien (Credit: Tonia Moxley/Virginia Tech)

On a new path

For CSE alumna Christine Julien, a single class led to a successful academic career.

03.24.2025

Sorrells wins 2024 Gold Educational Award from Edmund Optics

The award supports research and education in ultrafast optics.

03.21.2025

(Image: Aimee Felter/Washington University)

Engineering arrhythmia therapies with Jon Silva

Jon Silva leverages augmented reality, machine learning, and computational and experimental models to improve cardiac care.

03.19.2025

Super-resolution microscopy is revealing unprecedented insight into the protein structures that underlie the stability and function of the kidney filtration system. The new grant to the Miner, Genin and Suleiman labs will transform these insights into potential targets for the treatment of kidney disease. (Photo credit: Dr. Pongpratch Puapatanakul, MD, laboratory of Jeff Miner)

Interdisciplinary team harnesses mechanobiology to combat kidney disease

Guy Genin and Jeffrey Miner at WashU collaborate to uncover mechanical forces behind incurable kidney condition.

03.18.2025

What if a microscope could not tell the difference between one molecule and a pair of molecules? Similar to how the Webb Telescope discerns binary stars from the shells of cosmic dust they create, microscopes in the Lew Lab must measure both how molecules interact with polarized light and details within their polarized images to discern two molecules from one. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, Caltech)

In molecular imaging, details matter

Matthew Lew and Yiyang Chen developed a new method to improve precision in molecular imaging.

03.17.2025

Graduate student Claire Najjuuko set out to develop a machine learning model to predict which adolescents with HIV would be less likely to adhere to antiretroviral therapy. With such knowledge, health care practitioners could implement interventions for those identified as less likely to adhere to the treatment plan. (Credit: iStock photo)

Machine learning could help predict adherence to HIV treatment in adolescents

Claire Najjuuko, Chenyang Lu, Fred Ssewamala use AI to target interventions to improve compliance.

03.17.2025

Jason He and Aaron Bobick at He’s installation ceremony as the Laura and William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Jamesley Lane/Washington University)

He named Laura and William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering

Jason He is known for his work on wastewater treatment and resource recovery.

03.14.2025

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BME Dissertation Defense: Zijan Guo at Eric P. Newman Education Center

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BME Seminar Treena Arinzeh, PhD at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Postdoctoral scholars shape academic life, bolster innovation and collaboration

Postdoctoral trainees share their experiences working in WashU’s Department of Biomedical Engineering.

03.05.2025

Katie Auyeung, a Washington University junior engineering major from Chicago, right, and Zachary Fine, a sophomore biomedical engineering major from Silver Spring, Md., left, help Craig Oberle, of Florissant, put on a device they invented that would help limit his hand tremors at the end of the school’s annual Make-a-Thon program on Thursday in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood. (Brian Munoz / St. Louis Public Radio)

Students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz

This year's Make-a-Thon yielded eight projects.

02.26.2025

Wu named associate editor for Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy

Gang Wu to help advance catalysis and sustainable energy research as associate editor.

02.25.2025

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Students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz

This year's Make-a-Thon yielded eight projects.

02.26.2025

In the media: Mysterious blobs found inside cells are rewriting the story of how life works

Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell.

01.22.2025

In the Media: New Technique for Diagnosing Brain Diseases is Successfully Put to the Test

HEC Science & Technology explores Hong Chen's new method of detecting Alzheimer's disease.

07.31.2023

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WashU Expert: How Alexa is listening

The right moves to reign in fibrosis

On a new path

Sorrells wins 2024 Gold Educational Award from Edmund Optics

Engineering arrhythmia therapies with Jon Silva

Interdisciplinary team harnesses mechanobiology to combat kidney disease

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He named Laura and William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering

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BME Dissertation Defense: Zijan Guo at Eric P. Newman Education Center

CCSN Research Methodology Workshop

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Students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz

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