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Two dancers performing with their arms outstretched

Tue, 01/21/2025 | College of Arts & Sciences

From dancer to doctor

Tessa Olmstead, now a third-year medical resident, appreciates lessons learned as an undergraduate studying dance and bioengineering at the UW.

A closeup of four, colorful microchips

Thu, 01/16/2025 | Electrical & Computer Engineering

The future of chips

Electrical and computer engineering researchers are designing next-generation microchips for smartphones and microwave ovens to satellites and supersonic jets.

Group photo of Chemical Engineering students

Tue, 01/14/2025 | UW News

Contextualizing research

Assistant teaching professor Alex Prybutok shares how she adds the context behind the science in her chemical engineering courses.

Not Afraid of Falling at the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering.

Fri, 01/10/2025

No fear here

Not Afraid of Falling, the whimsical new art installation in the Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering, is layered with metaphor, meaning — and a bit of magic.

An illustration of Daniel J. Evans in the foreground with a forest and mountain in the background.

Wed, 01/08/2025 | UW Magazine

Dan Evans: A life of reason

The civil and environmental engineering alumnus bettered the world as a senator, governor, community-college builder and champion of the environment.

Max Parsons headshot

Mon, 01/06/2025 | Electrical & Computer Engineering

Quantum tech, research and education

As director of the Quantum Technologies Training and Testbed Lab, Max Parsons provides opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience exploring quantum phenomena.

Jack Grimm standing behind ion-beam scanning electron microscope

Thu, 01/02/2025 | UW News

How tooth enamel changes with age

By looking at individual atoms in tooth enamel, UW and PNNL researchers are learning what happens to our teeth as we age.

Illustration of a faceless figure in a suit with floating symbols and speech bubbles.

Mon, 12/30/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Variational preference learning

Allen School Assistant Professor Natasha Jaques discusses her team's method for training AI systems that predict users’ preferences as they interact with the system, then tailor outputs accordingly.

Jaelynn Hunt-Osburn and Maelynn Dank hold a switch-adapted toy that looks like a snow globe.

Thu, 12/26/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Adapting toys for families

The student group HuskyADAPT’s toy adaptation events provide accessible toys to families and equip students with engineering skills.

Daniel Alex headshot

Mon, 12/23/2024 | UW Aeronautics & Astronautics

Breaking through plasma's chaos

Ph.D. student Daniel Alex's research tackles one of fusion energy's greatest challenges: the unpredictable behavior of plasma itself.

Close-up of a traffic surveillance camera overlooking a busy road with cars in motion during sunset

Thu, 12/19/2024 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Safeguarding privacy in transportation data

Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Jeff Ban's research uses data to address traffic issues, ensuring solutions that protect personal privacy in modern cities.

person on laptop viewing digital profiles

Tue, 12/17/2024 | UW News

Subtle biases in AI models

In the ‘Wild West’ of AI chatbots, subtle biases related to race and caste often go unchecked.

A man lies down in a hospital bed while another man holds a handheld device to his back while seeing ultrasound imaging on a computer screen.

Thu, 12/12/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Sound solutions

UW researchers have developed ultrasound technologies that break up and remove kidney stones.

An illustration of the endoscope lens system designed by UW ECE and Physics Professor Arka Majumdar and his research team

Tue, 12/10/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

New lens system for endoscopes

A research team has designed a new kind of lens system for the tip of an endoscope, which could enable physicians to to see inside the body like never before.

A yellow aquatic drone on a body of water with residential buildings and palm trees in the background

Fri, 12/06/2024 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Capturing Hurricane Helene

The RAPID Facility team deployed sensors and drones in Florida to gather critical data before and after Hurricane Helene’s landfall.

AI medical image analysis model

Wed, 12/04/2024 | UW News

Spotting systemic diseases with AI

BiomedParse is an AI medical image analysis model that works across nine types of medical images to better predict systemic diseases, such as lupus and diabetes.

Two lithium ion batteries on a conveyer belt

Mon, 12/02/2024 | UW News

Academia and U.S. battery manufacturing

Jie Xiao, a professor of mechanical engineering, talks about batteries and how academia can help support the growing domestic battery manufacturing industry.

UW ECE Assistant Professor Sajjad Moazeni stands next to columns in Sylvan Grove on the UW campus.

Tue, 11/26/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

The need for speed

Electrical & Computer Engineering's Sajjad Moazeni is developing a new kind of optical interconnect for data centers supporting AI and machine learning in the cloud.

David Prendez demonstrates how the car simulator works in the Human Factors and Statistical Modeling Lab.

Thu, 11/21/2024 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering

Beyond autopilot

Engineering safer, smarter interactions with self-driving cars.

Two people sitting inside an AI generated sound bubble graphic

Tue, 11/19/2024 | UW News

AI headphones create sound bubble

A UW-led research team has developed a headphone prototype that allows listeners to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet.

A white square piece of foam on top of a bowl of vegetables.

Thu, 11/14/2024 | UW Material Science & Engineering

The future of foam

Engineering alumnus John Felts' bio-based foam is making waves in the packing industry.

The Liao family at the Wing Luke Museum. Photo credit: Wing Luke Museum.

Tue, 11/12/2024

A lasting legacy

A transformative gift from the Liao family supports the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building.

The International Space Station

Fri, 11/08/2024 | UW News

Biology in Space

NASA has awarded $2.5 million to establish a regional scientific consortium based at the UW to study the effect of the space environment on living organisms.

Bridge across Elwha River

Wed, 11/06/2024 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering

AI-driven disaster preparedness

PhD student Julia Lensing is leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance disaster preparedness and infrastructure resilience in Washington.

UW logo statue on campus

Mon, 11/04/2024 | UW CoMotion

I-Corps at UW

I-Corps Hub grant, which provides $15 million, across the institutions over five years, to bolster innovation training programs.