Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide. Christine O’Brien of @WashUengineers aims to create a wrist-worn sensor that uses light to track blood flow, offering an early warning system that could change maternal care.

Today marks 58 years since WashU chemical engineering alum Marv Gibbs, BS '56, DSc '60, opened the first Lion's Choice restaurant in STL. He founded the chain in 1967 with two partners as a side business from his day job as a chemical engineer at Monsanto. 📸: The Source, 2013

#WashUCSE doctoral student Ruiqi Wang is a 2025 Google PhD Fellow in Health Research, the first #WashUEngineers student to receive this honor. His work applies AI models to detect human actions & errors in smart homes for people with cognitive impairments. https://t.co/KUZH2DUbyp

Armor Medical, co-founded by @WashUBME’s Christine O’Brien, won the 2025 MedTech Innovator Grand Prize and $350K to advance its wearable device for early detection of postpartum hemorrhage — the leading global cause of maternal death. 🔗 https://t.co/YT8buQJE3s

💻 WashU’s Intro to Computer Science (CSE 1301) is more than a requirement — it’s a community. Students learn to code, collaborate, and create their own small games with many returning as TAs to mentor the next generation. Read more. https://t.co/cjUrt6BXPB

They did it again 🎉 Recent @WashUBME grads took 1st place in the 2025 Collegiate Inventors Competition for their peanut allergen–detecting device, SENSE. Competition sponsored by @InventorsHOF. 🥜💡 #WashUBME #WashUEngineers https://t.co/8aQbUlYi64

Drake vs. Kendrick? Sophomore Izzy Mbatai says the real loser was Black culture, and his essay on the topic just won the Dean James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize. 👏 #WashUEngineers #WashUCSE https://t.co/9oukl7kWOf

With funding from the @ARPA_H, an interdisciplinary research team including Rajan Chakrabarty of @WashU_EECE and Michael Vahey of @WashUBME will create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25%. https://t.co/r0HkN8m4Bb

WashU researchers, including @WashUBME's Rohit Pappu, revealed how a protein linked to ALS and FTD changes shape through microphase separation, a discovery that could inform new treatment strategies. https://t.co/gqLmyNapD4

Alex Rutz of @WashUBME is developing injectable, 3D-printable hydrogels that conduct electricity, paving the way for flexible, tissue-like bioelectronic devices. -like bioelectronic devices. 🔗 Read more. https://t.co/DOednMcOnv

Collaborative research from #WashUMEMS' Guy Genin & Tsinghua University discovered that tissues can undergo “phase transitions,” revealing why fibrotic diseases progress in sudden jumps & points to new therapies targeting the body’s physical properties.

Janet Sorrells of @WashUESE received an @NIH Director’s Early Independence Award to develop new imaging tools that reveal how microbes and host cells interact in real time, advancing research on IBD and related diseases. 🔗

“It’s all moving so fast.” — #WashUCSE’s Ian Bogost (@ibogost) talks with @Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth about how AI is reshaping tech, work and education. 🎥 Watch the full interview: @washuartsci https://t.co/2GPRHb4iM0

#WashUCSE's Nathan Jacobs & team developed Radial CrossModel Embeddings, a new approach that improves fine-grained species classification by aligning image & text. https://t.co/T3HZDOdYAk

Register to attend the WashU Symposium hosted by the WashU School of Public Health and the @WashUengineers on October 22nd, 2025 at 10am in Whitaker 100, on Danforth and online. Learn more about this event> https://t.co/oYQJfDRawl

How do machines see in 3D? #WashUCSE's Nathan Jacobs and team developed GenStereo, an AI method that creates realistic stereo image pairs from a single photo, improving depth perception for robotics and autonomous driving. https://t.co/nWSBbummIh

“Jim Ballard’s wisdom, wit and kindness shaped the Engineering Communication Center into a unique and collaborative teaching environment, and he will be dearly missed." https://t.co/G4KsekGuYr

WashU faculty & alumni have received the 2025 EMSOFT Test of Time Award for their 2011 paper introducing real-time scheduling to the Xen hypervisor. Learn more. https://t.co/rqgi3klrrz

How did Earth’s atmosphere become oxygen-rich before plants? 🌍 A PNAS study from @WashUBME’s Yifan Dai shows how anion-π forces may have helped protocells generate oxygen, shedding light on life’s origins and future molecular design. {link} https://t.co/FTShK7ZHft

Three @WashUBME grads are finalists in the @InventorsHOF Collegiate Inventors Competition. Their invention, SENSE, is a portable device that detects hidden peanut allergens in <1 min and displays results on a smartphone. https://t.co/OvlFsPFHUV