Emerson gives $4M to WashU’s Olin Business School for endowed AI professorship
The endowed professorship will be held by Dennis Zhang, who joined Olin in 2016. Emerson’s CEO is a WashU trustee and Olin graduate.
Can AI rejuvenate the liberal arts?
William Acree reflects on the rapid influence of AI in academic life and his experience teaching a writing-intensive course focused on AI.
Some assembly required, with machine learning
WashU researchers are working on ways to use machine learning to not just make predictions about potential chemical compounds but also to model out the synthesis of those materials.
Building an Ethical, AI-Competent 3D Library of Human Remains
As part of the 2026 Digital Transformation Research Corps, principal investigators Sarah Baitzel and Thomas Cody Prang explored possibilities for ethically enabling the future study and teaching of human skeletal remains.
AI agents prompt redesign of web for security, privacy, reliability
Funded by a NSF Career Award, Umar Iqbal plans to redesign the web with infrastructures catered to AI agents and to meet higher, safer and stricter standards.