Dr. Maria Huffman is the new director of the University of Washington’s Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF), the largest publicly accessible nanofabrication facility in the Pacific Northwest. Huffman joins WNF from Lund University in southern Sweden.
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August 23, 2019 | UW News
August 22, 2019 | UW News
CEE graduate student Shashank Bhushan is one of three UW recipients of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student research projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics.
August 20, 2019 | UW News
University of Washington security researchers have developed ShareAR, a toolkit that lets app developers build in collaborative and interactive features without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security. The researchers presented their findings Aug. 14 at the USENIX Security Symposium in Santa Clara, California.
August 19, 2019 | UW News
Engineering researchers have developed a system to monitor workers and tell them how risky their behaviors are.
August 12, 2019 | UW News
A team of researchers at UW has solved the puzzle of how Earth's first cells came to function.
August 9, 2019 | UW News
Researchers at University of Washington and University of California, Los Angeles, have developed an artificial intelligence system that could help pathologists read biopsies more accurately, and lead to better detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
August 8, 2019 | Washington Nanofabrication Facility
Five undergrads, including three from engineering, have been awarded grants by the Washington Research Foundation to fabricate nanoscale quantum devices.
July 29, 2019 | UW News
In a pilot study led by the University of Washington, researchers explored art-based mindfulness activities that schools could use to reduce headaches, a common side effect of stress in adolescent girls. After three weeks of twice-weekly mindfulness and art therapy sessions, the girls reported experiencing significantly fewer headaches.
July 18, 2019 | UW News
François Baneyx has been named the new director of CoMotion and Interim Vice Provost of Innovation at the University of Washington. Baneyx is the Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor of Chemical Engineering and an adjunct professor of bioengineering.
July 18, 2019 | UW News
Scientists have visualized the electronic structure in a microelectronic device for the first time, opening up opportunities for finely tuned, high-performance electronic devices.
July 17, 2019 | UW News
ME professor Per Reinhall and ECE professor Mari Ostendorf have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
July 17, 2019 | UW Allen School
Balazinska, who co-leads the Allen School's Database and Data Science research groups, will succeed current director Hank Levy.
July 15, 2019 | College of Engineering
HCDE research project unearths and celebrates the forgotten histories of women who helped shape the early days of Atari — and the computer gaming industry ever since.
July 9, 2019 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Ewurama Karikari shares how the UW STARS program helped her transform her passions for math and robotics into a mechanical engineering mechatronics degree.
July 2, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
SARP, the UW rocketry club, clinched the top spot as the 2019 Judge's Choice and Overall Winner in the Spaceport America Cup.
July 1, 2019 | Undergraduate Academic Affairs
Rising senior Hugo Pontes recently presented his research at the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Posters on the Hill Conference in Washington, D.C. Hugo shares his journey from arriving in the states not speaking English to sharing his research and story with members of Congress.
July 1, 2019 | UW News
A team created a method that allows three people to work together to solve a problem using only their minds.
June 28, 2019 | McKinstry YouTube Channel
Watch a video of five engineering students talk about their experience partnering with McKinstry on a capstone project.
June 19, 2019 | UW News
Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in Computer Science & Engineering, and his research partners have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they’re asleep without touching them. The findings are published June 19 in the Nature journal npj Digital Medicine.
June 17, 2019 | College of Engineering
Greg Miller, vice dean of the College of Engineering, has been appointed interim dean effective July 2019.
June 13, 2019 | KIRO 7
A team of UW engineering students has been working to develop new antennas for disaster-relief drones. The students showed off their new antennas to AT&T on Tuesday.
June 12, 2019 | UW News
The Photo Wake-Up algorithm, developed by computer scientists at the University of Washington, can take a person from a 2D photo or a work of art and make them run, walk or jump out of the frame. The system also allows users to view the animation in three dimensions using augmented reality tools.
June 12, 2019 | City of Bellevue
A team from the UW Industrial and Systems Engineering program developed a model to make winter weather plow routes more efficient and cost-effective.
June 6, 2019 | College of Engineering
We honor the life and leadership of J. Ray Bowen, who served as the dean of engineering for 15 years from 1981 to 1996.
June 6, 2019 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
An ECE student team built an unmanned vehicle to inspect crops.
Shwetak Patel
Steve Brunton
Mari Ostendorf
Matthew O’Donnell
Yinhai Wang
Brett Maurer
Eve Riskin
Yin Tat Lee
Ruikang Wang
Kurtis Heimerl