News
Tue, 09/14/2021 | UW Medicine
Kidney prototype earns international prize
The Center for Dialysis Innovation has claimed its third award in the KidneyX competition, which aims to stoke innovation that will reduce the burden of dialysis.
Thu, 09/09/2021 | UW News
New NSF center for optoelectronic and quantum technologies
The Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand plans to bring atomic-level precision to devices and technologies and transform fields like information technology.
Tue, 09/07/2021
Expanding STEM pathways via materials research
The Molecular Engineering Materials Center is part of a three-year, NSF-funded partnership to build STEM career pathways for underserved Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students.
Tue, 09/07/2021 | UW Aeronautics & Astronautics
Research takes flight
Aeronautics & Astronautics sensing research is aboard the 2021 Boeing ecoDemonstrator, giving students an opportunity to test algorithms and models during flight.
Fri, 09/03/2021 | UW News
New Orleans levee protection
CEE’s Michael Motley explains how the redesigned levee system in New Orleans helped mitigate the impact of Hurricane Ida.
Tue, 08/31/2021 | UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
DIY fashion with Novoloom
HCDE students’ brand of ready-to-sew clothing kits empower people to create their own custom clothes.
Thu, 08/26/2021 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering
Food for thought
UW researchers find that consuming certain aquatic organisms in arsenic-contaminated urban lakes elevates cancer risk.
Mon, 08/23/2021 | UW News
Bonsai created at Suzzallo Library
Bioengineering postdoc and bonsai artist Le Zhen has transformed Suzzallo’s junipers into a symbol of peace and inclusiveness.
Thu, 08/19/2021 | Allen School News
A “nanopore-tal” into complex biological systems
UW and Microsoft researchers develop “nanopore-tal” enabling cells to talk to computers.
Mon, 08/16/2021
Developing a new CO2 bioconversion process
What if we could take harmful CO2 emissions and turn them into a cheaper, more efficient and sustainable means of chemical production? A UW team is working on just that.
Mon, 08/16/2021
Leading an innovation partnership
Longstanding partners, the UW College of Engineering and School of Medicine have created a position to expand health innovation. Meet Tueng Shen, the first to serve in this new role.
Tue, 08/10/2021
Congrats to Husky Robotics
The UW Husky Robotics team finished as the top U.S. team in the 2021 Virtual University Rover Challenge.
Thu, 08/05/2021 | UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Using light to accelerate AI
ECE researchers are developing a computer chip using laser light to accelerate the computing speed and efficiency of AI and machine learning applications while reducing energy consumption.
Wed, 08/04/2021
Technology for kids’ health
HCDE and School of Medicine researchers are co-designing a technology intervention to support the health and development of children.
Mon, 08/02/2021 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering
Clearing the air
The impacts of air pollution on communities living near airports are no longer up in the air, thanks to breakthrough research by CEE professor Tim Larson.
Thu, 07/29/2021 | UW News
UW to lead new NSF institute
The UW-led AI Institute for Dynamic Systems will focus on fundamental AI and machine learning theory, algorithms and applications for real-time learning and control of complex dynamic systems.
Tue, 07/27/2021 | UW Advanced Robotics
Big win for student robotics
The Advanced Robotics student team placed first in this summer’s North American RoboMaster University League competition.
Thu, 07/22/2021 | UW News
Engineering researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Anna Karlin, Kristi Morgansen, Tueng Shen and other researchers affiliated with UW Engineering are among the new members elected for 2021.
Thu, 07/22/2021 | UW News
Playing with plasma
Gaming graphics card allows faster, more precise control of fusion energy experiments.
Thu, 07/15/2021 | HCDE News
Getting King County moving again
Human Centered Design & Engineering students generate winning campaign to bring King County residents back to transit.
Tue, 07/13/2021 | UW News
UW student mental health during spring 2020
To understand how the UW’s transition to online-only classes affected students’ mental health, UW researchers surveyed 147 UW undergraduates over the 2020 spring quarter.
Tue, 07/13/2021
Hope and healing
One researcher combats cancer with the help of UW doctors and tools developed by his colleagues.
Mon, 07/12/2021 | UW News
We need to be patient
CEE’s Dawn Lehman on the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida.
Thu, 07/08/2021 | UW News
Professor Ostendorf named UW Vice Provost for Research
ECE professor Mari Ostendorf will assume leadership of the UW’s premier and growing research enterprise.
Fri, 07/02/2021
Our reality
In his new novella, Allen School professor Tadayoshi Kohno invites readers to consider who benefits from technology — and who doesn’t.