News

Thu, 03/14/2024 | Allen School News
More than skin deep
Allen School and Stanford researchers create a framework for auditing AI image classifiers for detecting melanoma.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Mon, 02/26/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering
Wheels in motion
Research shows the importance of accessible environments for children using assistive technologies.

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.

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.

Tue, 02/13/2024 | UW News
Smart earrings that monitor temperature
UW researchers introduce the Thermal Earring, a wireless wearable that continuously monitors a user’s earlobe temperature.

Mon, 02/12/2024 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering
Unraveling a nitrogen cycle mystery
Research about ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms reshapes our perspective on their physiology and ecological niche.

Thu, 02/08/2024 | UW News
Hydrogels inside and out
Using computers to design proteins allows UW researchers to make tunable hydrogels that can form both inside and outside of cells.

Thu, 02/08/2024
Making a big splash
Members of the UW Concrete Canoe Team gain hands-on experience designing and constructing a canoe almost entirely out of concrete.

Tue, 02/06/2024 | National Academy of Engineering
Nancy Allbritton elected to the NAE
The Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering and professor of bioengineering has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the Academy is one of the highest honors given to an engineer.

Tue, 02/06/2024 | UW Clean Energy Institute
Clean energy graduate certificate
Launched this year, the Clean Energy Institute's new graduate certificate in clean energy is open to all UW grad students.

Thu, 02/01/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering
A healthy collaboration
Engineering students and faculty partner with UW Medicine to create devices that can treat multi-organ failure and improve catheter safety.

Tue, 01/30/2024 | UW Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expanding impact
Affiliate instructor and alumnus Mo Malakoutian on how he's applied his engineering background to public service and local government.

Thu, 01/25/2024 | UW Aeronautics and Astronautics
An inclusive workshop
Aeronautics & Astronautics finds success with a model adapted from Aquatic & Fishery Sciences that strengthens fellowship applications and fosters community.

Tue, 01/23/2024 | UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
Reimagining smart agriculture
UW engineers and computer scientists receive an NSF grant to reimagine smart agriculture with black diasporic farming communities.

Tue, 01/23/2024 | UW Industrial Systems and Engineering
Building community resilience
Industrial and systems engineering chair Cynthia Chen will lead an interdisciplinary NSF-funded effort to transform disaster response.

Thu, 01/18/2024 | UW News
ChatGPT and other language models
UW researchers answer common questions about language models like ChatGPT.

Wed, 01/17/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
A new chip for wireless communication
A UW research team has designed a computer chip that can send and receive large amounts of data at high speeds while minimizing signal distortion.

Thu, 01/11/2024 | UW Molecular Engineering & Science Institute
Q&A with MolES director Suzie Pun
The bioengineering professor became Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute (MolES)'s director last summer.