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A team at the University of Washington has developed the first underwater 3D-positioning app for smart devices, such as the smartwatch pictured here.

Mon, 07/31/2023 | UW News

Underwater GPS for smart devices

A UW team has developed the first underwater 3D-positioning app for smart devices.

Illustration of a sheet of graphene onto bulk graphite

Fri, 07/28/2023 | UW News

A new twist on graphite

A UW-led research team reports that it is possible to imbue graphite, the 3D material found in No. 2 pencils, with physical properties similar to graphite’s 2D counterpart, graphene.

Headshots of three faculty members

Tue, 07/25/2023 | UW News

Washington State Academy of Sciences

Engineering faculty members Corie Cobb, Mehran Mesbahi and Yinhai Wang are among the eight UW researchers recently elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

A person is holding up a cube and looking at it

Fri, 07/21/2023 | UW News

New biodegradable plastics

A UW-led research team has developed new bioplastics that degrade on the same timescale as a banana peel in a backyard compost bin.

Payman Arabshahi headshot

Wed, 07/19/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Center for Soil Technologies

Electrical & Computer Engineering Associate Professor Payman Arabshahi has been named the UW lead for the NSF’s new Center for Soil Technologies (SoilTech).

“Although not the community in which I normally publish my research, I am truly honored and amazed that my work has been recognized by leaders in computational mathematics.” Shayan Oveis Gharan in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.

Tue, 07/18/2023 | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Shayan Oveis Gharan on counting without counting, his drive to solve TSP and cooking up methods from scratch

Take a generous helping of mathematical brilliance, cover it in copious amounts of curiosity about the most vexing problems underpinning computer science, add a generous dash of humility, and what do you get? 

Robotic grasper holding an Amazon mailer

Mon, 07/17/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Robotics for manufacturing

Mechanical engineering researchers explore how robotics and AI can help improve manufacturing workers’ safety, standardize processes and more.

Photos of three WE Rise alumni

Mon, 07/17/2023 | College of Engineering

Women engineers rise

Three alums reflect on the impact that the College of Engineering’s WE Rise program has had on their work as engineers. 

Open field where a small rocket is being launched

Thu, 07/13/2023 | UW Materials Science and Engineering

Rocketing to success

A materials-heavy challenge leads the UW chapter of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society to a grand prize win at this year's First Nations Launch.

Artistic depiction shows electron fractionalization — in which strongly interacting charges can “fractionalize” into three parts — in the fractional quantum anomalous Hall phase.

Mon, 07/10/2023 | UW News

Advancements in quantum computing

Researchers make a quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist.