WashU team wins $3.9M to provide cameras for gamma-ray observatory
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WashU team wins $3.9M to provide cameras for gamma-ray observatory

October 2, 2025

A team of WashU researchers and engineers has won a $3.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and install gamma-ray cameras for the Small-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), the smallest of the three classes of telescopes the observatory will deploy. The telescopes are planned for the observatory’s Southern Hemisphere site in Paranal, Chile.

2025 Global Research Excellence Showcase

2025 Global Research Excellence Showcase

Join us for an afternoon showcasing the latest research of WashU faculty members and researchers working across borders and disciplines to respond to humanity’s most pressing challenges. Featured presenters are recipients of Global Incubator Seed Grants, which harness the power of our international partnerships to advance innovative research in areas aligned with the university’s strategic plan. The program culminates with awards and recognitions celebrating research excellence at WashU.

Konecky wins 2025 NSF CAREER Award

Konecky wins 2025 NSF CAREER Award

August 20, 2025

Bronwen Konecky has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to study rainfall changes in the Central America and northern South America region

Lenze named XPRIZE Healthspan semifinalist 
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Lenze named XPRIZE Healthspan semifinalist 

August 8, 2025

Eric J. Lenze, MD, the Wallace and Lucille K. Renard Professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and his team are among the Top 40 Milestone 1 award winners in XPRIZE Healthspan.

A place to MELT
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A place to MELT

August 8, 2025

Near a remote beach on the coastline of Nicaragua, about 12 kilometers from the border of Costa Rica, Edya Kalev, AB ’92, guides a group of women as they each apply gentle, purposeful pressure to their hands, feet and spine.

Black carbon emissions underestimated in ‘global south’
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Black carbon emissions underestimated in ‘global south’

August 5, 2025

Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have used a variety of models to take on the challenging task of measuring ambient concentrations of black carbon in the “global south” and found estimates of these harmful emissions have been grossly underestimated.

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