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UW
College of Engineering NewsFlash | Vol. 1, No. 6
| August 28, 2007 |
NewsFlash is a monthly email of press items featuring our College's researchers. For a more complete and regularly updated list of COE media coverage, see In the Media.
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NewsFlash is a service of the UW College of Engineering and the UW Office of News and Information. If you have a newsworthy result about one month from publication, presentation or demonstration, please contact Hannah Hickey at (206-543-2580, hickeyh@uw.edu). |
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Aug. 11, 2007 | Associated
Press
Weight-load on
bridges, roads soars to risky levels |
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Just like Americans themselves, the
nation's roads and bridges are carrying much more weight today. Added to
an aging and deteriorating highway system, it means more safety
problems, delays and repair costs for drivers, experts said. "The number
of trucks and the number of heavy trucks have gone up dramatically
since 1965," said Mark Hallenbeck, director of the Washington State
Transportation Center at the University of Washington.
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Aug. 10, 2007 | Associated
Press
Metal
plates examined in bridge collapse |
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Engineers say outdated metal gussets may have
caused the collapse of the interstate bridge in Minneapolis. The bridge
was one of Minnesota's busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles a day. Mark
Hallenbeck, director of the Washington State Transportation Center at
the UW, said that's dramatically higher than designers would have
considered in 1965.
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Aug. 3, 2007 | The
Seattle Times
Twin
Cities reminder: Care for what we have |
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The Seattle Times editorial board
reflects upon the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minnesota as a
reminder that "the deeper lesson to take away from this is to invest
time, money and talent in prevention." The UW's Marc Eberhard, professor
of civil and environmental engineering, is quoted.
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Aug. 26, 2007 | National
Public Radio
Stem-Cell
Procedure Could Rebuild Heart Tissue |
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Heart muscle doesn't regenerate when it's damaged, one
reason heart attacks are so debilitating. A dream of researchers is to
build new heart muscle using transplanted cardiac stem cells. Charles
Murry, UW professor of bioengineering and pathology, took a potentially
important step in that direction using embryonic stem cells as a
starting material.
RELATED
MATERIAL
Human
derived stem cells can repair rat hearts | uwnews.org
news release: Aug. 27, 2007
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Aug. 19, 2007 | The
New York Times
Engineer
on two wheels |
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Mechanical engineering alum Sally
Jewell describes her melding of business and the outdoors. While
studying at the UW she switched from dentistry to engineering, she
writes, because "that seemed like more fun."
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Aug. 10, 2007 | The
Vancouver Columbian
UW
computer graphics help demonstrate NASCAR drafting |
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University of Washington computer scientists have
developed software to illustrate the drafting effect of NASCAR race
cars. Draft Track uses fluid dynamics math algorithms to create
real-time displays of colors trailing behind cars that show viewers how
drivers can use drafting to save gas or pick up speed.
RELATED
MATERIAL
Computers expose
the physics of NASCAR | uwnews.org article: Aug. 9, 2007
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Aug. 10, 2007 | The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Funding
gives Illumita a 'vote of confidence' |
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Illumita, a Pioneer Square startup
aiming to make fuller use of high-powered computers, has secured $6
million funding. Illumita's technology emerged from the University of
Washington. The company was founded in 2006 by UW computer scientists
Hank Levy, Steve Gribble, David Richardson and Brian Bershad.
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Aug. 6, 2007 | Investor's
Business Daily
William
Boeing's airline boost |
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William Boeing built an aerospace
empire in the Pacific Northwest through his technological and political
know-how. The article describes his role in opening a department of
aeronautical engineering at the UW.
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Aug. 6, 2007 | The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Microsoft
photo software to showcase space shuttle |
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NASA will use Photosynth to offer a close,
interactive look at the space shuttle Endeavour as it prepares for
liftoff and the scene in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The 3-D photo browser is
based on UW computer science research now licensed by Microsoft.
RELATED
MATERIAL
Photo
software creates 3-D world | uwnews.org news release:
Feb. 14, 2007
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Aug. 6, 2007 | The
Seattle Times
3-D
Web views of space center to show off new photo technology |
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Anyone with an Internet connection can
now get better-than-VIP access to the pinnacle of American technological
achievement. Microsoft's Web site gives a 3-D view of detailed,
high-resolution photographs of NASA's space shuttle Endeavour and its
surroundings in the Kennedy Space Center. The Photosynth photo-viewing
technology is based on research by computer scientist Steve Seitz and
doctoral student Noah Snavely.
RELATED
MATERIAL
Photo
software creates 3-D world | uwnews.org news release:
Feb. 14, 2007
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Aug. 17, 2007 | The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Commuters
showed they can adapt, at least briefly |
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A thousand little things people did differently
made the I-5 lane closures largely painless.
It's an interesting lesson for a region that tends to fixate on pouring
concrete, rather than changing behavior, to solve traffic problems. The
UW's Mark Hallenbeck, director of the Washington State Transportation
Center at the UW, is quoted.
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Aug. 12, 2007 | The
Seattle Times
I-5
project just the first of many traffic disruptions |
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The Interstate 5 isn't the only local road in need
of repairs. In all, the Department of Transportation lists 24 bridges
and viaducts in need of new expansion joints — the gaps, often covered
by metal strips, that make your tires go "thunk, thunk, thunk." Civil
engineer Charles Roeder describes the deterioration in infrastructure
over his 30 years of living in Seattle and studying bridges.
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Jul. 29, 2007 | Wisconsin
State Journal
Lampert
Smith: A legacy lost |
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Columnist Susan Lampert Smith discusses
the legacy of Denice Denton, former professor at UW-Madison, dean of
engineering at the University of Washington and chancellor of the
University of California at Santa Cruz. Even more than science and
education, Denton was known for helping women and minorities break
through the glass ceiling of academia.
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