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STARS students Tammy Teal and Ivan Cordero

Oct 17, 2018

Changing the Future of Engineering

The Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) program supports students from underserved high schools after they start at the UW. And it's helping.
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Oct 08, 2018

Dissecting disinformation

Within a rapidly evolving — and increasingly disorienting — digital arena, researchers in the emCOMP Lab analyze how false information spreads online.
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Aug 17, 2018

Meal Matchup

A human centered design and engineering team is helping campus dining halls donate and deliver excess food to local homeless shelters.
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Men building a wall

Aug 06, 2018

Iraq infrastructure

CEE alumna Heta Kosonen helped restore water systems destroyed by ISIS in Iraq so that displaced people could return to their homes.
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photo of David Younger and Robert Lamm doing research

Jul 16, 2018

Turning research into impact

To apply their protein research to the pharmaceutical pipeline, the bioengineers behind A-Alpha Bio learned the language of business.
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Jun 27, 2018

Staying afloat

UW researchers are working to improve the health and living conditions of an impoverished floating community in the Amazon.
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