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LoCoBot robot on a beige and purple background

Fri, 09/01/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Human-inspired robotic perception

Mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate Ekta Samani’s research aims to improve visual perception in autonomous robots.

Microscopic image of human cells colored in varying shades of blue and red, with bright red stain signifying cancerous cells.

Tue, 08/29/2023 | Allen School News

Distinctions with a difference

Allen School researchers unveil ContrastiveVI, a deep generative model for gleaning additional insights from single-cell datasets.

EWB members Alex Arevalo-Perez, Shoaib Laghari, and Kyra Dugan (left to right) stand in front of a trench they helped dig for electrical cables

Mon, 08/28/2023

International impact

In a Nicaraguan community, Engineers Without Borders students improve infrastructure.

A biochemistry lab bench with pipettes and bottles of liquid. A microcentrifuge and a Bunsen burner sit to the right

Fri, 08/25/2023 | UW News

A roadmap to diversify faculty hiring

A team of biomedical researchers, including two UW bioengineers, has developed a new method for hiring engineering professors and increasing diversity in faculty hiring.

A close-up view of the camera "bump" on the back of an iPhone

Wed, 08/23/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Reimagining optics for smartphones

UW researchers are part of an international team that has developed an innovative miniature camera, which uses a hybrid optical system over 100 times smaller than its commercial counterpart.

Fatma Inanici, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Moritz lab, preparing to apply electrodes for electrical spinal stimulation to study participant Jessie Owen.

Mon, 08/21/2023 | UW Medicine

New treatment for spinal cord injury

UW researchers find that electrical stimulation of the spinal cord leads to major gains in movement.

Xu Chen headshot

Thu, 08/17/2023

Xu Chen to serve as BARC director

The mechanical engineering associate professor will begin his appointment as the director of the Boeing Advanced Research Collaboration (BARC) in September.

Red and green fluorescence microscopy images of biofilm solubility and bacteria

Tue, 08/15/2023 | UW Bioengineering

Targeting biofilms to fight pathogens

To battle deadly pathogens, bioengineering researchers are focusing on the protective biofilms that can make certain bacteria resistant to drugs.

Illustration of computer chip sending out a scanning laser to detect a car far in the distance

Thu, 08/10/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

New eyes for self-driving cars

A UW research team has developed a new type of LiDAR technology that helps autonomous vehicles “see” distant objects.

Graphic explaining the remineralization process in a tooth

Tue, 08/08/2023 | UW News

Eliminating tooth sensitivity

A UW-developed dental lozenge could provide permanent treatment for tooth sensitivity.