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Professor Hossain wearing a life jacket on a boat

Tue, 03/12/2024 | UW Civil and Environmental Engineering

Surface water tracking in Bangladesh

Faisal Hossain, professor of civil and environmental engineering, helps lead a NASA satellite mission to aid in Bangladesh's water management.

Merrill Keating in front of a building, posing to camera

Fri, 03/08/2024 | USA Today

USA Today Woman of the Year

Mechanical engineering senior Merrill Keating was named a USA Today Woman of the Year for her advocacy on behalf of women in STEM.

Valerie Daggett headshot

Wed, 03/06/2024 | UW News

Amyloid affinities

Bioengineering Professor Valerie Daggett discusses how a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease could also work for Type 2 diabetes.

a group of people holding a check

Mon, 03/04/2024 | UW Foster School of Business

Health innovation challenge winners

Congrats to the engineering student teams that won prizes at the 2024 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge!

Alvin Graylin

Thu, 02/29/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Our next reality

Alumnus Alvin Graylin is co-author of a new book that seeks to answer questions about how AI and immersive technologies might reshape our world.

Headshots of this year’s UW fellows: Simon S. Du, Adriana Schulz and Alexandra Velian

Thu, 02/29/2024 | UW News

2024 Sloan Fellows

Simon Du and Adriana Schulz, both assistant professors in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, have been named Sloan Fellows.

Assistant Professor Aniruddh Vashisth stands in a lab environment next to two machines used for automated welding

Tue, 02/27/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Advancing clean manufacturing

Mechanical engineering researchers are developing clean energy projects to improve the manufacturing of composites and electric vehicle batteries.

Two children ride in small toy cars, one of which has an adapted steering wheel to make it accessible for the child to use.

Mon, 02/26/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Wheels in motion

Research shows the importance of accessible environments for children using assistive technologies.

An illustration of a laser beam engraving a microchip in a black box frame, plus an inset showing the photonic chip circuitry

Fri, 02/23/2024

A laser printer for microchips

A UW research team has invented a way to print photonic chips using a speedy, low-cost device the size of a conventional desktop printer.

A robot in front of a shelf. The shelf contains the following items: a pitcher on its side, a bowl in front of a bottle of Soft Scrub, a mug on a plate and a spoon balanced on the plate

Thu, 02/15/2024 | UW News

Robots and clutter

In this Q&A, Associate Professor Ashis Banerjee shares how his team is helping robots learn to identify objects in cluttered spaces.