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2025 Diamond Award Honorees headshots

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.

Heart illustration that reads: UW researchers share their love stories

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.

Kim Ingraham fitting an exoskeleton on a student

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.

Cynthia Chen presenting

Tue, 02/11/2025 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering

Neighbor helping neighbor

A new study shows the power of community resource sharing during disasters.

Illustration that reads: February 4 World Cancer Day

Fri, 02/07/2025 | UW News

Advancing cancer treatments

UW researchers are designing cancer therapeutics that can kill cancer cells and restore healthy tissue.

Chair next to a laptop on a desk

Wed, 02/05/2025 | UW News

Teens and AI models

A UW study finds strong negative associations with teenagers in AI models.

An example of a silicon photonic chip

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.

A view of the Torre Piloti in the Port of Genoa

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.

Xiaodong Xu sitting near a computer

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.

A white ring beside a circuit board and a quarter

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.

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 | 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.

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 | 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.

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.