Our people
Senior Young was a Rhodes Scholar finalist
Washington University in St. Louis senior Kennedy Young was a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She has devoted her years at Washington University to studying the history of mass incarceration and working directly with those in the prison system today.
Our expertise
Reidentifying faces from genomic data more difficult than previously thought
Despite others’ previous claims, the lab of Yevgeniy Vorobeychik and collaborators have determined it’s not so easy for a neural network to recreate a person’s face from DNA.
Less energy, better quality PAM images with machine learning
A team of researchers led by Song Hu at the McKelvey School of Engineering has developed a two-step denoising technique for photoacoustic microscopy, a method that allows researchers to see tiny vessels in the body.
Our impact
Washington University joins major NIH effort to advance health data science in Africa
Researchers at Washington University are receiving one of 19 grant awards that will support data science research and training activities in Africa. The researchers will focus on developing new training programs in health data science in Rwanda.
Lembke launches a movement to help teens overwhelmed by social media
Washington University first-year student Emma Lembke didn’t need a Facebook whistleblower or neuroscience researchers to tell her social media messes with the adolescent brain. She lived it. And it led her to found Log Off.
Washington University joins newly formed action network
Washington University in St. Louis is part of a newly formed coalition designed to reduce racial, economic and spatial inequities in the St. Louis region.
Videos
Are supply chain disruptions here to stay?
Panos Kouvelis, director of The Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation, said, optimistically, supply chains could recover by next summer. But if the energy crisis in China doesn’t resolve quickly, “2022 will be driven by that crisis and the constraints that it creates.”
