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A 10-story building constructed from mass timber and designed to withstand Seattle-area earthquakes is tested at one of the largest shake tables in San Diego.

Thu, 05/11/2023 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Timber triumph

Civil and environmental engineering researchers test a sustainable and seismically resilient 10-story mass timber building.

Flock of birds flying across sunset

Tue, 05/09/2023 | UW Mechanical Engineering

To improve robots, look to birds

Mechanical engineering researchers improved a mathematical model describing how birds flock together – which could be applied to build robots that move in similar ways.

digital illustration of yellow dots and lines that form what looks like a sun

Mon, 05/08/2023

Why quantum matters

UW scientists and engineers share their thoughts on the potential of quantum research and why it’s so important now.

A snake’s musculoskeletal system

Fri, 05/05/2023 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

Put more muscle into that structure

Inspired by a snake's biology, aeronautics and astronautics researchers add soft actuation to rigid structures for key aerospace benefits.

Aerial view of a city showing a network of multi-lane streets, sidewalks and crosswalks flanked by a row of tall buildings of metal, glass and concrete with smooth facades. In the middle of the main boulevard, divided by a pedestrian courtyard with red, dedicated bike lanes along one edge and featuring a copse of leafy trees in the center, two oval-shaped cut-outs reveal additional streets traversing the same section of city a level below. People are walking around the courtyard and along the sidewalks.

Tue, 05/02/2023 | Allen School News

From Seattle to São Paulo

The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology is mapping the world, and improving accessibility, one sidewalk at a time.

Green island with curved glass buildings and Manhattan in the background

Fri, 04/28/2023 | UW News

New York Climate Exchange

The UW is a core member of newly announced New York Climate Exchange, a first-of-its kind international center for developing solutions to our global climate crisis.

Genom e-traffic iIllustration

Wed, 04/26/2023 | UW Bioengineering

Watching traffic jams on the genomic highway

UW and UW Medicine researchers have developed a new method for measuring the speed of enzymes on different regions of the genome inside living cells.

Two people on the left watching a computer screen in the middle of the picture. A huge wave tank is behind the computer.

Mon, 04/24/2023 | UW News

Studying marine microplastics

Learn how two researchers — including Michelle DiBenedetto, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering — are investigating marine microplastics.

A remotely operated vehicle being submerged via a cable into the ocean

Thu, 04/20/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Listening to the ocean

Doctoral student John Ragland is finding ways to improve techniques for listening to ambient noise in the ocean — and helping to measure the impact of climate change.

finger pressing on smart phone for diabetes test

Mon, 04/17/2023 | UW Medicine

Adapting smartphones for blood-sugar screening

UW and UW Medicine researchers modified a commercially available test strip into a prototype that enables people to self-test for prediabetes.