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Fri, 08/23/2019 | UW News

Dr. Maria Huffman is the new director of the University of Washington’s Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF), the largest publicly accessible nanofabrication facility in the Pacific Northwest. Huffman joins WNF from Lund University in southern Sweden.

Thu, 08/22/2019 | UW News

CEE graduate student Shashank Bhushan is one of three UW recipients of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student research projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics.

Tue, 08/20/2019 | UW News

University of Washington security researchers have developed ShareAR, a toolkit that lets app developers build in collaborative and interactive features without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security. The researchers presented their findings Aug. 14 at the USENIX Security Symposium in Santa Clara, California.

Mon, 08/19/2019 | UW News

Engineering researchers have developed a system to monitor workers and tell them how risky their behaviors are.

Tue, 08/13/2019 | UW News

Dr. Nancy Allbritton has been named the next Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Washington Provost Mark Richards announced today. 

Mon, 08/12/2019 | UW News

A team of researchers at UW has solved the puzzle of how Earth's first cells came to function.

Fri, 08/09/2019 | UW News

Researchers at University of Washington and University of California, Los Angeles, have developed an artificial intelligence system that could help pathologists read biopsies more accurately, and lead to better detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.

Thu, 08/08/2019 | Washington Nanofabrication Facility

Five undergrads, including three from engineering, have been awarded grants by the Washington Research Foundation to fabricate nanoscale quantum devices.

Mon, 07/29/2019 | UW News

In a pilot study led by the University of Washington, researchers explored art-based mindfulness activities that schools could use to reduce headaches, a common side effect of stress in adolescent girls. After three weeks of twice-weekly mindfulness and art therapy sessions, the girls reported experiencing significantly fewer headaches.

Thu, 07/18/2019 | UW News

Scientists have visualized the electronic structure in a microelectronic device for the first time, opening up opportunities for finely tuned, high-performance electronic devices.

Thu, 07/18/2019 | UW News

François Baneyx has been named the new director of CoMotion and Interim Vice Provost of Innovation at the University of Washington. Baneyx is the Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor of Chemical Engineering and an adjunct professor of bioengineering.

Wed, 07/17/2019 | UW Allen School

Balazinska, who co-leads the Allen School's Database and Data Science research groups, will succeed current director Hank Levy.

Wed, 07/17/2019 | UW News

ME professor Per Reinhall and ECE professor Mari Ostendorf have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

Mon, 07/15/2019 | College of Engineering

HCDE research project unearths and celebrates the forgotten histories of women who helped shape the early days of Atari — and the computer gaming industry ever since.

Tue, 07/02/2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics

SARP, the UW rocketry club, clinched the top spot as the 2019 Judge's Choice and Overall Winner in the Spaceport America Cup.

Mon, 07/01/2019 | UW News

A team created a method that allows three people to work together to solve a problem using only their minds.

Mon, 07/01/2019 | Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Rising senior Hugo Pontes recently presented his research at the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Posters on the Hill Conference in Washington, D.C. Hugo shares his journey from arriving in the states not speaking English to sharing his research and story with members of Congress.

Wed, 06/19/2019 | UW News

Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in Computer Science & Engineering, and his research partners have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they’re asleep without touching them. The findings are published June 19 in the Nature journal npj Digital Medicine.

Mon, 06/17/2019 | College of Engineering

Greg Miller, vice dean of the College of Engineering, has been appointed interim dean effective July 2019.

Thu, 06/13/2019 | KIRO 7

A team of UW engineering students has been working to develop new antennas for disaster-relief drones. The students showed off their new antennas to AT&T on Tuesday.

Wed, 06/12/2019 | City of Bellevue

A team from the UW Industrial and Systems Engineering program developed a model to make winter weather plow routes more efficient and cost-effective.

Wed, 06/12/2019 | UW News

The Photo Wake-Up algorithm, developed by computer scientists at the University of Washington, can take a person from a 2D photo or a work of art and make them run, walk or jump out of the frame. The system also allows users to view the animation in three dimensions using augmented reality tools.

Thu, 06/06/2019 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

An ECE student team built an unmanned vehicle to inspect crops.

Thu, 06/06/2019 | College of Engineering

We honor the life and leadership of J. Ray Bowen, who served as the dean of engineering for 15 years from 1981 to 1996.

Fri, 05/24/2019 | UW News

A&A researchers have developed a novel solution, inspired by origami, to help reduce impact forces on spacecraft.