News
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 | 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 | 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.
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.
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.
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.
Thu, 11/21/2024 | UW Industrial & Systems Engineering
Beyond autopilot
Engineering safer, smarter interactions with self-driving cars.
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.
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.
Tue, 11/12/2024
A lasting legacy
A transformative gift from the Liao family supports the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building.
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.
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.
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.