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Mon, 11/24/2025 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Magnetic microgels

Mechanical engineering researchers are exploring how to use microgels to regenerate tissue, which could one day transform outcomes for people with limb or digit loss.

Noah A Smith

Tue, 11/18/2025 | UW News

$10 million gift establishes AI@UW

The gift from Charles and Lisa Simonyi will support the UW’s leadership in advancing AI. Allen School Professor Noah A. Smith will become the UW's Vice Provost for AI.

Photo of Andre Ye in front of a chalkboard with philosophy-related information on it.

Fri, 11/14/2025 | UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Questioning the AI answer

Curiosity leads the way for interdisciplinary undergraduate researcher Andre Ye.

Group of people in a lab examining concrete samples

Wed, 11/12/2025 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Putting concrete to the test

In the civil and environmental engineering department's construction materials lab, students mix, test and break concrete to learn how materials behave.

A close up of a penny on a black-and-white grid. To the right of the penny is a tiny microchip, about 1/20th the size of the penny.

Thu, 11/06/2025 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Developing high frequency electronics

Hossein Naghavi is designing microchips that use high frequency terahertz electronics, combining integrated circuit design with advanced electromagnetic techniques.

A woman in a blue lab coat and safety goggles holds an instrument to load a sample into a reactor in the lab

Tue, 11/04/2025 | UW Chemical Engineering

Advancing water treatment

Chemical Engineering graduate student Joelle Scott is exploring new methods to remove toxic forever chemicals and other contaminants from wastewater.

Illustration of a laptop on a table, with an angelic halo above it.

Fri, 10/31/2025 | UW College of Arts & Sciences

Can machines learn morality?

UW researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and in the Allen School are exploring the potential for training AI to value altruism.

Gray blobs of liquid metal are scattered within a black background.

Wed, 10/29/2025 | UW News

"Liquid metal" composites

UW researchers created a recyclable composite material of liquid metal droplets, which can be connected together to form an electrical circuit.

A diagram shows four outlines of a human body, each with different areas highlighted in a different color.

Mon, 10/27/2025 | UW News

Improving targeted drug delivery

UW researchers design programmable proteins that use logic to improve targeted drug delivery.

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Thu, 10/23/2025 | UW News

Neurodiversity and Employment Institute

The Canopy Neurodiversity Foundation awarded a $15 million grant to the UW to support the launch of the UW Institute for Neurodiversity and Employment.