Faculty Fellow

Heather Corcoran is director of the College and Graduate School of Art and the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professor of Art. She is a graphic designer whose work explores relationships of information and expression, spanning collaborative projects for social impact and self-generated projects for exhibition. She works on questions of informational […]

Sarah C.R. Elgin retired in May 2018 as the  Viktor Hamburger Professor of Arts and Sciences. She was also professor of biology, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, professor of genetics, and professor of education. In the late 1980s, Elgin, helped initiate a pilot program with her own children’s University City School District to bring […]

Robert Blankenship, Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Biology, studies the energy-storing reactions in photosynthetic organisms, as well as the origin and early evolution of photosynthesis. Click HERE for more information on Robert Blankenship.

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, assistant professor in the Brown School, focuses her research on structural racism and inequalities in education. Click HERE for more information on Sheretta Butler-Barnes.

Joseph Culver, Professor of Radiology, Physics, and Biomedical Engineering, explores ways of exploiting non-invasive optical measurements for both functional- and molecular- biological imaging. Click HERE for more information on Dr. Culver.

Katharine Flores is Director of the Institute Of Materials Science & Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science. Her primary research interest is the mechanical behavior of high performance structural materials, with particular emphasis on understanding structure-processing-property relationships in bulk metallic glasses and their composites.  Click HERE for more information on Kathy […]

Rowhea Elmesky, Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Educational Studies Honors Program is committed to conducting research on improving science teaching and learning for marginalized youth attending urban schools. Particularly, she focuses on developing integrated meso and micro level understandings regarding the ways in which resources and schema from social fields outside of […]

Patrick Gibbons is Professor Emeritus of Physics. For more information on Patrick Gibbons click HERE.

Erik Herzog is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Biology; Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Director of the St. Louis Neuroscience Pipeline Program. His laboratory studies the cellular and molecular basis of circadian rhythms in mammals. His group uses techniques that include planar electrode arrays, cellular imaging, and genetic manipulations. […]

Sophia Hayes is a Professor of Chemistry. Her research group is a basic understanding of the structure and properties of different types of inorganic systems, including semiconductors and other optically and electronically active materials. WashU Expert: The global helium shortage hits home Hayes helps shape national helium policy