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Thu, 02/20/2025
2025 Diamond Awards
Congrats to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Diamond Awards, which honor alumni who have made significant contributions to the field of engineering.

Tue, 02/18/2025 | UW News
A love of research
Engineering faculty members Katya Cherukumilli, June Lukuyu and Navid Zobeiry are among 12 UW researchers who share how they fell in love with their research.

Thu, 02/13/2025 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
Engineering assistive robotic devices
Kim Ingraham, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, designs adaptive control strategies for powered wheelchairs, exoskeletons and similar devices.

Tue, 02/11/2025 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering
Neighbor helping neighbor
A new study shows the power of community resource sharing during disasters.

Fri, 02/07/2025 | UW News
Advancing cancer treatments
UW researchers are designing cancer therapeutics that can kill cancer cells and restore healthy tissue.

Wed, 02/05/2025 | UW News
Teens and AI models
A UW study finds strong negative associations with teenagers in AI models.

Mon, 02/03/2025 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
3D imaging for lung cancer detection
UW researchers are part of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team developing a new, three-dimensional imaging system for early detection of lung cancer.

Wed, 01/29/2025 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering
Stabilizing Genoa's Torre Piloti
Civil & Environmental Engineering's Paolo Calvi implemented a cutting-edge solution to stabilize a new Italian control tower in the Port of Genoa, ensuring safety from high winds.

Thu, 01/23/2025 | National Academy of Sciences
Xiaodong Xu receives NAS Award
The professor of physics and of materials science and engineering has received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery.

Thu, 01/23/2025 | UW News
Introducing IRIS
Allen School researchers have developed IRIS, a smart ring with a tiny camera that lets users point and click to control home devices.

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.

Thu, 01/16/2025 | UW 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.

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.

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.

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.

Mon, 01/06/2025 | UW 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thu, 12/12/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Sound solutions
UW researchers have developed ultrasound technologies that break up and remove kidney stones.

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.

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.