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Radha Poovendran headshot

Tue, 05/30/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

Using AI to defend against cyberthreats

Radha Poovendran, professor of electrical and computer engineering, will be the UW lead for an NSF-funded institute developing AI tools for responding to cyberthreats.

Man smiling to the camera, standing in front of a building

Tue, 05/30/2023 | University of Washington Magazine

A life transformed

Raymond Haug was caught in a cycle of addiction, homelessness and prison. With the help of scholarships, he shifted gears and found a calling in mechanical engineering.

A screenshot shows Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Amal Nanavati, a participant and Tyler Schrenk smiling for a photo. Alves-Oliveira is wearing a white shirt and is sitting in a classroom. Nanavati is wearing an orange shirt and his background is blurred. The participant is wearing a brown shirt and is sitting in front of a window. Schrenk is wearing a blue shirt and sitting in front of a wood-paneled background.

Fri, 05/26/2023 | Allen School News

Setting the table for a brighter future

With help from robots, Allen School researchers are making social dining more accessible.

Faisal Hossain

Wed, 05/24/2023 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Excellence in global engagement

Faisal Hossein, professor of civil and environmental engineering, is named the inaugural recipient of the UW Excellence in Global Engagement Award.

Starfish Otter pup in space

Mon, 05/22/2023 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics

Tugs in space

Aeronautics and astronautics researchers tackle the challenge of precision trajectory planning and rendezvous with electric propulsion.

James Carothers

Tue, 05/16/2023

James Carothers to serve as interim chair of Chemical Engineering

The Dan Evans Career Development Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering will begin his two-year appointment on June 15, 2023.

A visualization of p97, an enzyme that plays a crucial role in regulating proteins in cancer cells, inhibited from completing its normal reaction cycle by a potential small molecule drug

Mon, 05/15/2023 | Allen School News

Introducing BioTranslator

Researchers unveil a machine learning model that bridges biological data and text to accelerate biomedical discovery.

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.