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Tue, 04/11/2023 | UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
Designing sex ed with trans youth
HCDE Ph.D. candidate Calvin Liang is working with trans and queer youth to design an online sex education resource and build more inclusive sexual health experiences for all.
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Thu, 04/06/2023 | UW Materials Science and Engineering
Asking quantum questions
Asking deep – possibly unknowable – questions has been the driving force behind MSE and Physics Professor Charles Marcus’s entire life.
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Tue, 04/04/2023 | UW Foster School of Business
Big wins for engineering students
Congrats to the engineering students whose teams placed first and second at the 2023 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge.
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Tue, 04/04/2023
Capstone collaborations
The College’s Industry Capstone Program pairs students with companies, nonprofits and government organizations to tackle real-world engineering challenges.
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Thu, 03/30/2023 | The Seattle Times
Invest to build "Quantum Valley" in Washington
In this op-ed, UW Deans Nancy Allbritton and Dianne Harris and industry leaders call for an investment in quantum education, research and tech.
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Tue, 03/28/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Quieting a bridge
Mechanical engineering researchers found a solution to mitigating the noise caused by the Washington SR 520 floating bridge’s expansion joints.
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Thu, 03/23/2023 | Allen School News
Pair of ACEs
The Allen School's Arvind Krishnamurthy and Michael Taylor will help spur innovation in distributed computing as part of the ACE Center for Evolvable Computing, a new multi-university research center.
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Tue, 03/21/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
A low-cost IV monitor for newborn care
Designed by an Engineering Innovation in Health team, the device is twice as accurate as similar commercial monitoring systems.
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Thu, 03/16/2023 | UW Magazine
Saying goodbye to the 747
Boeing rolled out the final 747 this winter, marking the end of an era for a plane designed by engineering alumnus Joe Sutter, '43.
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Mon, 03/13/2023
Di Xiao named chair of Materials Science & Engineering
The professor — who holds joint positions in materials science and engineering, physics and at PNNL — will begin his appointment on March 16.
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Mon, 03/13/2023
Research from the heart
When it comes to cardiac systems research, a UW bioengineering professor wants to play his cards right.
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Thu, 03/09/2023 | UW Foster School of Business
Health innovation wins
Engineering students won big at the 2023 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge, hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Wed, 03/08/2023 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering
PacTrans receives $15 million renewal award
The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) has received a five-year $15 million renewal grant from USDOT to expand its work to improve the movement of people and goods throughout the region.
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Thu, 03/02/2023 | UW News
Students video chat with ISS astronaut
Lummi Nation School students visit the UW to talk to an International Space Station astronaut.
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Mon, 02/27/2023 | UW Materials Science & Engineering
Governor Inslee visits MSE
Washington Governor Jay Inslee visited Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) on Feb. 20 to hear about research on green alternatives to concrete.
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Thu, 02/23/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Entering research
Mechanical engineering grad students share their experiences with a new course designed to help students succeed as researchers.
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Tue, 02/21/2023 | Allen School News
Leilani Battle named Sloan Fellow
The assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering has been awarded a research fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Tue, 02/21/2023
Rethinking disability and advancing access
UW CREATE collaborates toward a world with fewer problems and more solutions for people of all abilities.
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Thu, 02/16/2023 | UW News
The future of quantum research
UW Professor Kai-Mei Fu discusses the potential of quantum research, and why it’s so important.
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Mon, 02/13/2023 | UW News
Earthquake response
Three UW experts, including CEE Professor Dawn Lehman, discuss the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6.
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Thu, 02/09/2023 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research with a splash of color
The phrase “a splash of color” took on a very literal meaning for a research team that is using environmentally safe pink dye to investigate the movement of water where a river flows into the ocean.
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Wed, 02/08/2023 | UW Bioengineering
Treating liver cancer with microbubbles
A bioengineering lab has received NIH funding to treat hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver cancer, with ultrasound and microbubbles.
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Mon, 02/06/2023
Champions of sustainability
From the nanoscale to the systems level, our chemical engineers are focused on speeding the adoption of renewable power, slashing energy demands of industrial processes and more.
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Fri, 02/03/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
A new form of wireless communication
A UW research team invents a new form of wireless communication.
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Mon, 01/30/2023
The UW’s College of Engineering named national leader in inclusive excellence
The College of Engineering has been recognized as a leader in inclusive excellence by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).