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July 2021

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UW to lead new NSF institute
 
The UW-led AI Institute for Dynamic Systems will focus on fundamental AI and machine learning theory, algorithms and applications for real-time learning and control of complex dynamic systems.
 
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Alberto Aliseda to serve as chair of Mechanical Engineering
 
The PACCAR Professor in Mechanical Engineering began his appointment earlier this month.
 
 
 
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Lilo Pozzo named interim chair of Materials Science & Engineering
 
The Boeing-Roundhill Professor in Chemical Engineering will begin her two-year term in September.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Anna Karlin elected to National Academy of Sciences
 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is one of five UW faculty elected this year.
 
 
 
Mari Ostendorf
 
Mari Ostendorf named UW Vice Provost for Research
 
The Endowed Professor of System Design Methodologies in Electrical & Computer Engineering will assume leadership of the UW’s research enterprise in September.
 
 
 
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Nancy Allbritton to receive 2021 Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award
 
Dean Allbritton, who also is a professor of bioengineering, will accept the award at the Biomedical Engineering Society’s annual meeting in October.
 
 
 
 

The ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change celebrates 20 years of supporting women faculty and developing leaders in STEM at the UW

 
Feature | College of Engineering
 
 

Shyam Gollakota wins ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for contributions to the use of wireless signals in creating novel applications

 
Awards | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
 
 

A coalition of 53 scientists worldwide worked together to determine the cause and scope of the deadly February debris flow in India

 
Research | UW News
 
 

UW researchers create a deep learning method that animates flowing material — such as waterfalls, smoke or clouds — in a photo

 
Research | UW News
 
 

Paris’s Law, which was first published at the UW by former UW Engineering professor Paul C. Paris and revolutionized airplane design, turns 60

 
Feature | College of Engineering
 
 

UW researchers use genes from a soil bacterium to engineer a switchgrass that breaks down toxic pollutants left by military explosives

 
Research | UW News
 
 

A study led by UW researchers borrowed image-analysis methods from engineering to spot the minute movements of a stony coral

 
Research  | UW News
 
 

Sam Burden receives NSF CAREER award to advance human-machine collaboration and broaden underrepresented student participation in STEM

 
Awards | Electrical & Computer Engineering
 
 

UW researchers have developed a method that uses smartphone images to identify potentially harmful bacteria on skin and in oral cavities

 
Research | UW News
 
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