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Oct 17, 2018
Changing the Future of Engineering
The Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) program supports students from underserved high schools after they start at the UW. And it's helping.
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Oct 08, 2018
Within a rapidly evolving — and increasingly disorienting — digital arena, researchers in the emCOMP Lab analyze how false information spreads online.
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Aug 17, 2018
A human centered design and engineering team is helping campus dining halls donate and deliver excess food to local homeless shelters.
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Aug 06, 2018
CEE alumna Heta Kosonen helped restore water systems destroyed by ISIS in Iraq so that displaced people could return to their homes.
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Jul 16, 2018
To apply their protein research to the pharmaceutical pipeline, the bioengineers behind A-Alpha Bio learned the language of business.
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Jun 27, 2018
UW researchers are working to improve the health and living conditions of an impoverished floating community in the Amazon.
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