The UW joins a landmark $110 million cross-Pacific effort and will partner with Amazon, NVIDIA and the University of Tsukuba, Japan, to advance artificial intelligence.
The UW is at the forefront of an international effort to innovate the semiconductor industry and build a skilled U.S. workforce to design and manufacture chip technology.
Civil and environmental engineering researchers test biologically derived charcoal filters and fungi as tools in purifying city waters, a step towards eco-friendly solutions.
In a recent study, a prototype device developed by UW engineering and medicine researchers helped patients recover from multiorgan failure.
RESEARCH & AWARDS
US News' best graduate schools UW's graduate programs in AI, programming language, systems and computer science overall placed in the top ten. Other engineering programs have yet to be announced.
Honoring inclusive excellence The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education honored College of Engineering Associate Dean Karen Thomas-Brown with its 2024 “Rising Star” Inclusive Excellence Award.
A mission to mitigate methane Former UW Vice Provost for Research and Professor Emeritus of chemical engineering and microbiology Mary Lidstrom returns to her lab, ready to reduce methane emissions.
2024 Sloan Fellows Simon Du and Adriana Schulz, both assistant professors in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, have been named Sloan Fellows.
Three is a magic number Allen School Professor Su-In Lee has earned a trio of honors, including the “Korean Nobel Prize” in engineering, for advancing AI for biomedicine.
Amyloid affinities Bioengineering Professor Valerie Daggett discusses how a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease could also work for Type 2 diabetes.
Professional impact award for DEI Princess Imoukhuede, professor and chair of bioengineering, received the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering’s Professional Impact Award for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
NSF CAREER awards UW engineering faculty members Ting Cao, Lucas Meza, Nadya Peek and Chaoyue Zhao are among the recipients of National Science Foundation CAREER Awards for 2024.
Engineering faculty receive SIGCHI awards Human centered design and engineering Professor and Chair Julie Kientz has joined the SIGCHI Academy, and Associate Professor Kate Starbird was honored with the 2024 SIGCHI Social Impact Award.
Mehran Mesbahi elected AIAA Fellow The aeronautics and astronautics professor is among 28 new fellows being inducted to the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics this year.
Sara Mouradian receives AFOSR YIP award The assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering received a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research through its Young Investigator Program for quantum computing research.
Hydrogels inside and out Using computers to design proteins allows UW researchers to make tunable hydrogels that can form both inside and outside of cells.
