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Thu, 11/02/2023 | UW News

How can social media be better?

Four UW researchers, who are exploring different approaches to improve people’s experiences, share their strategies.

Tadayoshi Kohno

Wed, 11/01/2023

Tadayoshi Kohno to serve as new Associate Dean for Faculty Success

Kohno, who is a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, will begin his new appointment in January 2024.

Illustration of a hand holding a phone with a kitchen and sink on the screen

Tue, 10/31/2023 | UW News

Improving accessibility with augmented reality

Allen School researchers Xia Su and Jae Lee discuss three apps they're developing that use augmented reality technology to improve accessibility.

Close up of a black spider on a web

Thu, 10/26/2023 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

Engineering "spidey senses"

Spiders can inform how we engineer sensing structures without sensors.

The exterior of the IEB under construction

Tue, 10/24/2023

A foundation for the future

The new academic home for all undergraduate engineering students, the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building is taking shape quite literally.

A person in a lab adjusting a device and looking at the camera

Thu, 10/19/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering

A passion for research

Studying electrical flow—and the Husky Promise—sparked ME student Ben Price’s decision to pursue graduate education.

n optical image of the electrically controlled coupled cavity array in the team’s silicon photonic chip.

Tue, 10/17/2023 | UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

A new chip for quantum technology

A UW research team has demonstrated a new kind of photonic chip that could work as a solid foundation for building a quantum simulator.

Collage of people working in different engineering research activities

Mon, 10/16/2023

Showcasing student research

Four engineering undergraduate students share their summer research experiences.

Researchers at the University of Washington have now created MilliMobile, a tiny, self-driving robot powered only by surrounding light or radio waves. It’s about the size of a penny and can run indefinitely on harvested energy.

Thu, 10/12/2023 | UW NEWS

Meet MilliMobile

Developed by UW researchers, the tiny, self-driving robot is powered by light and radio waves.

Karen Thomas-Brown

Tue, 10/10/2023 | UW College of Engineering

Spotlight on inclusive excellence

Karen Thomas-Brown, the College of Engineering’s associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion, shares what the College’s Office of Inclusive Excellence has been up to in its first two years.