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Man smiling to the camera, standing in front of a building

Tue, 05/30/2023 | University of Washington Magazine

A life transformed

Raymond Haug was caught in a cycle of addiction, homelessness and prison. With the help of scholarships, he shifted gears and found a calling in mechanical engineering.

A screenshot shows Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Amal Nanavati, a participant and Tyler Schrenk smiling for a photo. Alves-Oliveira is wearing a white shirt and is sitting in a classroom. Nanavati is wearing an orange shirt and his background is blurred. The participant is wearing a brown shirt and is sitting in front of a window. Schrenk is wearing a blue shirt and sitting in front of a wood-paneled background.

Fri, 05/26/2023 | Allen School News

Setting the table for a brighter future

With help from robots, Allen School researchers are making social dining more accessible.

Faisal Hossain

Wed, 05/24/2023 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Excellence in global engagement

Faisal Hossein, professor of civil and environmental engineering, is named the inaugural recipient of the UW Excellence in Global Engagement Award.

Starfish Otter pup in space

Mon, 05/22/2023 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

Tugs in space

Aeronautics and astronautics researchers tackle the challenge of precision trajectory planning and rendezvous with electric propulsion.

James Carothers

Tue, 05/16/2023

James Carothers to serve as interim chair of Chemical Engineering

The Dan Evans Career Development Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering will begin his two-year appointment on June 15, 2023.

A visualization of p97, an enzyme that plays a crucial role in regulating proteins in cancer cells, inhibited from completing its normal reaction cycle by a potential small molecule drug

Mon, 05/15/2023 | Allen School News

Introducing BioTranslator

Researchers unveil a machine learning model that bridges biological data and text to accelerate biomedical discovery.

A 10-story building constructed from mass timber and designed to withstand Seattle-area earthquakes is tested at one of the largest shake tables in San Diego.

Thu, 05/11/2023 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Timber triumph

Civil and environmental engineering researchers test a sustainable and seismically resilient 10-story mass timber building.

Flock of birds flying across sunset

Tue, 05/09/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering

To improve robots, look to birds

Mechanical engineering researchers improved a mathematical model describing how birds flock together – which could be applied to build robots that move in similar ways.

digital illustration of yellow dots and lines that form what looks like a sun

Mon, 05/08/2023

Why quantum matters

UW scientists and engineers share their thoughts on the potential of quantum research and why it’s so important now.

A snake’s musculoskeletal system

Fri, 05/05/2023 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

Put more muscle into that structure

Inspired by a snake's biology, aeronautics and astronautics researchers add soft actuation to rigid structures for key aerospace benefits.

Aerial view of a city showing a network of multi-lane streets, sidewalks and crosswalks flanked by a row of tall buildings of metal, glass and concrete with smooth facades. In the middle of the main boulevard, divided by a pedestrian courtyard with red, dedicated bike lanes along one edge and featuring a copse of leafy trees in the center, two oval-shaped cut-outs reveal additional streets traversing the same section of city a level below. People are walking around the courtyard and along the sidewalks.

Tue, 05/02/2023 | Allen School News

From Seattle to São Paulo

The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology is mapping the world, and improving accessibility, one sidewalk at a time.

Green island with curved glass buildings and Manhattan in the background

Fri, 04/28/2023 | UW News

New York Climate Exchange

The UW is a core member of newly announced New York Climate Exchange, a first-of-its kind international center for developing solutions to our global climate crisis.

Genom e-traffic iIllustration

Wed, 04/26/2023 | UW Bioengineering

Watching traffic jams on the genomic highway

UW and UW Medicine researchers have developed a new method for measuring the speed of enzymes on different regions of the genome inside living cells.

Two people on the left watching a computer screen in the middle of the picture. A huge wave tank is behind the computer.

Mon, 04/24/2023 | UW News

Studying marine microplastics

Learn how two researchers — including Michelle DiBenedetto, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering — are investigating marine microplastics.

A remotely operated vehicle being submerged via a cable into the ocean

Thu, 04/20/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Listening to the ocean

Doctoral student John Ragland is finding ways to improve techniques for listening to ambient noise in the ocean — and helping to measure the impact of climate change.

finger pressing on smart phone for diabetes test

Mon, 04/17/2023 | UW Medicine

Adapting smartphones for blood-sugar screening

UW and UW Medicine researchers modified a commercially available test strip into a prototype that enables people to self-test for prediabetes.

Two men shaking hands

Thu, 04/13/2023 | UW News

Investing in science at the UW

National and local leaders convene at the UW to discuss the CHIPS and Science Act.

Illustration of a trans flag with a black medical plus sign in the middle and five people standing in front and behind the sign.

Tue, 04/11/2023 | UW Human Centered Design & Engineering

Designing sex ed with trans youth

HCDE Ph.D. candidate Calvin Liang is working with trans and queer youth to design an online sex education resource and build more inclusive sexual health experiences for all.

Professor Charles Marcus makes adjustments on equipment in his lab at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Thu, 04/06/2023 | UW Materials Science and Engineering

Asking quantum questions

Asking deep – possibly unknowable – questions has been the driving force behind MSE and Physics Professor Charles Marcus’s entire life.

Group photo of 1st place winners of the 2023 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge holding a big check award

Tue, 04/04/2023 | UW Foster School of Business

Big wins for engineering students

Congrats to the engineering students whose teams placed first and second at the 2023 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge.

A group of students looking under the hood of an electric car

Tue, 04/04/2023

Capstone collaborations

The College’s Industry Capstone Program pairs students with companies, nonprofits and government organizations to tackle real-world engineering challenges.

Nancy Allbritton and Dianne Harris

Thu, 03/30/2023 | The Seattle Times

Invest to build "Quantum Valley" in Washington

In this op-ed, UW Deans Nancy Allbritton and Dianne Harris and industry leaders call for an investment in quantum education, research and tech.

Aerial view, looking west, of the new SR 520 floating bridge, with the Medina shoreline in the foreground and downtown Seattle skyline in the distance.

Tue, 03/28/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Quieting a bridge

Mechanical engineering researchers found a solution to mitigating the noise caused by the Washington SR 520 floating bridge’s expansion joints.

Arvind Krishnamurthy and Michael Taylor headshots

Thu, 03/23/2023 | Allen School News

Pair of ACEs

The Allen School's Arvind Krishnamurthy and Michael Taylor will help spur innovation in distributed computing as part of the ACE Center for Evolvable Computing, a new multi-university research center.

Woman adjusting wires connected to an IV bag

Tue, 03/21/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

A low-cost IV monitor for newborn care

Designed by an Engineering Innovation in Health team, the device is twice as accurate as similar commercial monitoring systems.