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Wed, 12/27/2023 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics
Supporting tribal-led salmon monitoring
UW researchers are working with the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe to develop a drone-based salmon survey method for resource management.
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Tue, 12/26/2023 | UW Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems
Empowering students with nanotechnology insights
Seattle-are community college students explore nanotechnology through a four-week intensive summer program that is part of the Path to UW Program.
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Tue, 12/26/2023 | UW News
How changing snow affects wildlife
Two UW professors teamed up to find out how climate change will affect how predators hunt prey.
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Mon, 12/18/2023
The art of early engineering education
Embracing creativity, four faculty reach the earliest of audiences and inspire the next generation of engineers.
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Mon, 12/18/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Monitoring for marine life
A team is testing new methods to assess the potential impacts of tidal turbines on marine mammals.
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Wed, 12/13/2023
Taking hands-on learning to new heights
More than 80 students join together to design and develop a radio-controlled aircraft as part of the UW chapter of Design Build Fly.
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Mon, 12/11/2023 | UW News
2023's highly cited researchers
Congrats to College of Engineering faculty and researchers who've been named to Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list for 2023.
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Mon, 12/11/2023
Construction site turned classroom
Undergraduates from civil and environmental engineering tour the under-construction Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to inspect reinforcing steel.
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Thu, 12/07/2023 | UW News
AI imaging software and stereotypes
A UW study has found that AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes.
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Tue, 12/05/2023 | UW News
A robot's journey
Allen School researchers discuss the successes and challenges of developing assistive-feeding robots.
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Fri, 12/01/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
Public policy and renewable energy
Recent electrical and computer engineering grad Margot Adam is studying public policy to improve renewable energy production, distribution and access.
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Wed, 11/29/2023 | UW Bioengineering
Is blood driven by the heart alone?
UW bioengineering researchers have found that it’s not just the heart that pumps blood.
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Mon, 11/27/2023 | UW News
Tracking whales
WhaleVis turns more than a century of whaling data into an interactive map.
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Mon, 11/27/2023
Pulling together
Did you know that seven of the nine "Boys in the Boat" were engineering students? Learn more about the UW rowing team that won Olympic gold in 1936.
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Wed, 11/22/2023 | UW News
AI for noise-canceling headphones
A UW-led team has developed deep-learning algorithms that let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time.
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Mon, 11/20/2023 | UW Chemical Engineering
Making bacteria work smarter
Chemical engineers are harnessing genetic engineering tools to rewire biological systems.
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Fri, 11/17/2023 | UW Materials Science and Engineering
Batteries and baklava
A passion for nanomaterials can take you places. For two materials science and engineering students this past summer, that meant Greece.
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Wed, 11/15/2023 | UW News
Can AI help boost accessibility?
UW researchers tested AI tools’ utility for accessibility. Though they found cases in which the tools were helpful, they also found significant problems.
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Wed, 11/08/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering veterans spotlight
Two mechanical engineering alums and military veterans share their experiences and insights.
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Mon, 11/06/2023 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering
From uniforms to Huskies
Military leaders forge new paths pursuing graduate degrees in civil and environmental engineering.
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Mon, 11/06/2023
Addressing the climate crisis
Learn how the UW Engineering community is taking action through research, teaching and collaboration.
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Thu, 11/02/2023 | UW News
How can social media be better?
Four UW researchers, who are exploring different approaches to improve people’s experiences, share their strategies.
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Wed, 11/01/2023
Tadayoshi Kohno to serve as new Associate Dean for Faculty Success
Kohno, who is a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, will begin his new appointment in January 2024.
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Tue, 10/31/2023 | UW News
Improving accessibility with augmented reality
Allen School researchers Xia Su and Jae Lee discuss three apps they're developing that use augmented reality technology to improve accessibility.
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Thu, 10/26/2023 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics
Engineering "spidey senses"
Spiders can inform how we engineer sensing structures without sensors.