Mobility Washington 2050
Through a new data-driven initiative, UW researchers are helping Washington prepare for the transportation challenges of a state expected to reach 10 million residents by 2050.
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The Trend in Engineering
Sowing the beads of life
UW Engineering researchers are adapting hydrogels to catalyze advances in farming, wastewater treatment, healthcare, biofuel and more.
Read about their work — and more — in the latest issue of The Trend in Engineering, out now.
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News
AI to accelerate design, testing and manufacturing
With a new $20 million grant supporting its next five years, the UW-led, NSF-funded AI Institute in Dynamic Systems is discovering ways to model and simulate complex, real-world problems.
Tech in prisons
In this Q&A, Allen School researchers why the technology used by incarcerated people is "inefficient, unusable, frustrating and expensive."
NSF renews optoelectronics center funding
The Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD) has received second-round NSF funding to develop new materials to transform information technology with light.
Events
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Oct 26, 2026 @ 4:00 pm
Updated Speaker: A&A Monday Seminar with Professor Breidenthal
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Oct 27, 2026 @ 10:30 am
ECE Research Colloquium - Amir Taghvaei, Generative Models for Nonlinear Filtering: A Conditional Optimal Transport Approach
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Oct 27, 2026 @ 11:00 am
ME Seminar: Joe Powers, ME & UW Medicine
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Oct 27, 2026 @ 4:00 pm
ChemE Department Seminar Series: Julianne Holloway
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