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CoE
NewsFlash | Vol. 2, No. 12 | Mar. 31,
2009 |
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.
Click on a headline to read that article on the web. Some links may require a subscription or no longer be active.
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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March 1, 2009 | Alaska
Airlines magazine
Projects
with a conscience
Engineers
Without Borders - USA is making a difference in the developing world.
The feature article begins with a description of the UW chapter's work
in Bolivia, quoting Donee Alexander, a PhD student in civil engineering,
and Susan Bolton, adjunct professor of civil engineering.
RELATED
MATERIAL
Engineers Without Borders hosts conference | March 13, 2008
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March 29, 2009 | The
Tacoma News Tribune
Going
green at our parks
The
National Park Service and the Environmental Protection Agency are
striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in parks through the Climate
Friendly Parks program. Civil engineer Alan Hamlet, who has studied the
decline of snowpack in the Cascades and north Sierras, is quoted.
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March 17, 2009 | The
Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus blog
Computer-science
enrollment rises
Top
programs, like the ones at the University of Washington and Carnegie
Mellon, have been reporting increases in enrollments in recent years,
but this report makes it official: The computer science major is back.
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March 16, 2009 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Skytap
taps $7 million
Skytap
is one of the few "up rounds" in today's tough venture capital climate.
Founded by current and former University of Washington computer science
professors, Skytap offers an online service that allows corporations to
easily test software and hardware configurations in the cloud.
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March 16, 2009 | The
Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog
Seattle
cloud venture Skytap raises another $7 million
Apparently
there's still financing to be had -- if you're a promising
cloud-computing startup with more than 50 customers. That's the case
with Skytap, a Pioneer Square company commercializing UW research,
co-founded by computer scientists Hank Levy, Steve Gribble, Brian
Bershad (currently on leave at Google) and doctoral student David
Richardson, who has since graduated.
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March 24, 2009 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Healionics
helps introduce glaucoma implant for dogs
As
Americans grow more connected to dogs and cats, a new market is
developing to provide additional health care services to pets.
Healionics, co-founded by bioengineer Buddy Ratner, announced that its
STAR biomaterial was being used in a new product to treat glaucoma in
dogs.
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March 3, 2009 | The
Daily
Site
created by UW student quells registration frustration
Rylan
Hawkins, a senior in computer science and engineering, created a Web
site called Visual Schedule Finder that helps students find classes that
fit their schedule. Hawkins, a goalkeeper on the Huskies soccer team,
said the tool helps him juggle practices and classes. He and classmates
built the tool as part of an engineering course.
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If you have a newsworthy result about one month
from publication, presentation or demonstration, please contact Hannah
Hickey, hickeyh@u.washington.edu. Notice
of student and faculty awards and grants is also welcome.
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