Research

A team of researchers led by St. Louis University professor Jenna Gorlewicz will put a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to work building software that will make visual materials more legible for people with visual impairments.

The United States Army has granted $1.2 million to a University of Missouri researcher to study combat wound infections. The research will focus on non-intravenous, topical and localized antibiotic treatments.

A multi-university research team is developing technology that can detect salmonella contamination in a matter of minutes. Researchers aim to take the results from sensors and pair them with other data to strengthen the safety and resilience of the chicken supply.

It’s a newer consideration for environmentalists, who previously thought that river systems were relatively benign and don’t contribute many greenhouse gas emissions.

A new study from the University of Missouri-St. Louis finds many companies turned to collaboration and communication to weather the supply chain disruptions induced by the coronavirus pandemic.

The university received about $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to study sustainable watersheds and implement different ways to support graduate students involved in the research.

Washington University is conducting a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to look at the psychiatric toll of divorce on children.

Several deadly tick-borne viruses have emerged in the Midwest in recent years, including the Heartland virus, first discovered in Missouri. Scientists say there are likely more that have gone undiagnosed.

The Missouri Soybean Association is funding the effort at Pittsburg State University in Kansas.

The fossils of the now-extinct worms had been tucked away for decades in the University of Kansas paleontology collection before researchers reexamined them.