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Thu, 04/11/2024 | UW News

US News' Best Graduate Schools

UW's graduate programs in AI, programming language, systems and computer science overall placed in the top ten. Other engineering programs have yet to be announced.

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Tue, 04/09/2024 | UW News

Cross-Pacific AI

The UW joins a landmark $110 million cross-Pacific effort and will partner with Amazon, NVIDIA and the University of Tsukuba, Japan, to advance artificial intelligence.

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Fri, 04/05/2024 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

Breaking a barrier

Prize-winning algorithm by two engineering PhD students takes less than a second to help a rocket make planetary landing.

The UW C-1 Bio team holding a massive check commemorating their second place prize

Wed, 04/03/2024 | UW Foster Blog

Environmental Innovation Challenge winners

Congrats to the engineering student teams that won prizes at the 2024 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge!

Shaohang Hao stands next to a prototype device to recover patients from multiorgan failure

Mon, 04/01/2024 | UW Medicine

Rescuing patients from multiorgan failure

In a recent study, a prototype device developed by UW Engineering and UW Medicine researchers helped patients recover from multiorgan failure.

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Thu, 03/28/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Ultra-flat optics for thermal imaging

Using a new inverse design framework, a UW research team has demonstrated broadband thermal imaging with meta-optics for a wide range of applications.

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Tue, 03/26/2024 | UW News

Computational embroidery

UW researchers taught high schoolers to code with cultural research and embroidery machines.

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Fri, 03/22/2024 | National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE)

Honoring inclusive excellence

The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education has honored Associate Dean Karen Thomas-Brown with its 2024 "Rising Star" Inclusive Excellence Award.

Bingzhao Li working with lab equipment. The room is dark and the lab equipment is giving off a purple glow from lasers used in Li's work.

Thu, 03/21/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Bringing light and sound into computer chips

Bingzhao Li is a postdoctoral research fellow in the UW Laboratory of Photonic Systems, which researches integrated photonic devices, optoelectronic materials and quantum photonics.

model of a human heart

Wed, 03/20/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Harvesting heartbeat energy

Engineering and UW Medicine researchers are creating a pacemaker "sleeve" that can partially recharge a leadless pacemaker.