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Sep 6 11:00 am

EECE SEMINAR - Dr. Ericka Ford at Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall

Sep 13 11:00 am

EECE SEMINAR - Dr. Hamish Gordon at Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall

Sep 20 11:00 am

EECE SEMINAR - Dr. Brent Sumerlin at Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall

Coal holds an estimated 50 million metric tons of rare earth elements (REEs), nearly 50% of the global REE content of traditional rare-earth-bearing mineral sources. Depending on market conditions, even partially recovering these REEs can have significant impact on the U.S. economy, supply chain and clean energy infrastructure. (Photo: iStock)

Sustainable technology to extract critical materials from coal-based resources

Young-Shin Jun to develop novel technology to extract, recover and enrich rare earth elements from coal-based resources.

07.26.2024

High intensity wildfires can produce pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds pictured here that contain black carbon particles, a potent climate warming agent. Washington University researchers are measuring sunlight absorption associated with these particles in the fireclouds to understand its impact. (Photo: 2024 UCAR)

WashU researchers quantify solar absorption by black carbon in fire clouds

New findings from Chakrabarty lab will help make climate models more accurate as massive wildfires become more common.

07.25.2024

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new mechanism by which particles are formed around the globe, often high up in the troposphere. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Scientists find new way global air churn makes particles

Wang’s atmospheric science and engineering lab discovers new mechanism of particle formation when stratosphere, troposphere air mix.

07.12.2024

Professor Fuzhong Zhang and PhD student Xinyue Mu look over microscope images of E. coli used in bioproduction. (Photo: Leah Shaffer/Wash U)

Fluctuating cellular energy drives microbial bioproduction

Fuzhong Zhang’s lab explores ATP’s role in biomanufacturing.

06.28.2024

Feng Jiao’s two-step system for carbon dioxide (CO2) electrolysis works by converting CO2 into carbon monoxide (CO), then processing CO into multi-carbon products like ethylene and acetate, which can be used in the plastics and food industries. (Credit: Feng Jiao)

Altered carbon points toward sustainable manufacturing

Feng Jiao scaled up carbon dioxide conversion process to a much larger scale.

06.03.2024

Martin named highly ranked scholar by ScholarGPS

Randall Martin highly ranked for work in satellite, nitrogen oxide, pollution.

05.20.2024

A group of students, faculty and staff visited various sites in St. Louis with Bob Hansman, as they learned more about the history of neighborhoods just a few miles from the Danforth Campus. (Credit: Janie Brennan)

Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering group sees St. Louis through new eyes

The EECE EDI committee visited parts of St. Louis with Bob Hansman.

05.20.2024

Stratospheric aerosol injection, a geoengineering technology that could offset the warming caused by human-made greenhouse gas emissions, works by seeding aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays before they can warm the planet. (Image: iStock)

Chakrabarty, collaborators win Simons Foundation International grant for geoengineering

Rajan Chakrabarty, Rohan Mishra and Lu Xu will explore stratospheric aerosol injection with a $1.5 million grant from the Simons Foundation International.

05.15.2024

Lori Setton, PhD with Mark Lowe, MD. Setton accepted the National Academy of Inventors Senior Member award on behalf of Hong Chen, PhD. (Photo by Katrina Shaw)

McKelvey Engineering faculty recognized for patents, entrepreneurship

The Office of Technology Management honored them April 25.

05.15.2024