The 91自拍’s annual Engineering Lecture Series will feature 91自拍 with potential to transform brain therapeutics from infancy to late adulthood.
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Researchers dropped technology developed at the 91自拍 off the coast of Florida this week to measure ocean waves in the path of Hurricane Ian. The test is one part of a broad effort to improve forecasts for these fast-moving and deadly systems.
The 91自拍 has joined the Alliance for Therapies in Neuroscience (ATN), a long-term 91自拍 partnership between academia and industry geared to transform the fight against brain diseases and disorders of the central nervous system. Launched in 2021 by the University of California, San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Genentech 鈥� a member of the Roche group 鈥� and Roche Holding AG, the ATN seeks to accelerate the development of new therapies for a broad range of brain and central nervous system conditions.
In a proof-of-principle study, 91自拍 and University of California San Diego 91自拍ers have shown that smartphones are capable of detecting blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70%. This is the lowest value that pulse oximeters should be able to measure, as recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
UW 91自拍ers have created a reactor that can completely break down hard-to-destroy chemicals.
The 91自拍 received a nearly $500,000 grant to run one of NASA鈥檚 Artemis Student Challenges in which participants turn a model lunar lava tube into a habitat suitable for housing humans on the moon or Mars.
The 91自拍 will break ground this fall on a new, $90 million Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, thanks in part to a $10 million donation from Boeing. Once complete, the state-of-the-art building will be a leading example of a student-focused learning facility backed by both public and private investments. The state of Washington has also dedicated $50 million to support the project that aims to fuel economic growth and create a pipeline of future, local engineering talent.
A UW team created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object. The team tested this system on a suite of 22 objects 鈥� including a 3D-printed bunny, a doorstop-shaped wedge, a tennis ball and a drill.
Seven professors at the 91自拍 are among 25 new members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2022, according to a July 15 announcement.
Denise Wilson, a 91自拍 professor of electrical and computer engineering, is working to end the prevalence of sexual harassment in engineering. She and her colleague Jennifer VanAntwerp of Calvin University are co-authors of 鈥淪ex, Gender, and Engineering: Harassment at Work and in School,鈥� published in April by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
UW 91自拍ers created ClearBuds, earbuds that enhance the speaker’s voice and reduce background noise.
鈥淩obots and Other Amazing Gadgets Invented 800 Years Ago,鈥� a children’s book by the UW’s Faisal Hossain and Qishi Zhou, shares the inventions of Ismail Al-Jazari, a 12th-century polymath considered by many to be the 鈥渇ather of robotics.鈥�
To investigate what happens to snow intercepted by trees, UW 91自拍ers created a citizen science project called Snow Spotter.
VoxLens users can gain a high-level summary of the information described in a graph, listen to a graph translated into sound or use voice-activated commands to ask specific questions about the data, such as the mean or the minimum value.
With the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, UW students modified a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer to use electrification, advanced propulsion systems and automated vehicle technology. It鈥檚 an opportunity for students 鈥� across four years 鈥� to take a car from design to a consumer-ready product.
Three 91自拍ers in the 91自拍 College of Engineering are exploring ways to make electronics more Earth-friendly.
Researchers have discovered that light 鈥� from a laser 鈥� can trigger a form of magnetism in a normally nonmagnetic material. This magnetism centers on the behavior of electrons 鈥渟pins,鈥� which have a potential applications in quantum computing. Scientists discovered that electrons within the material became oriented in the same direction when illuminated by photons from a laser. By controlling and aligning electron spins at this level of detail and accuracy, this platform could have applications in quantum computing, quantum simulation and other fields. The experiment, led by scientists at the 91自拍, the University of Hong Kong and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was published April 20 in Nature.
The first-of-its-kind center has received a $6 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation.
New 91自拍 from the Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) Network, which includes the 91自拍, finds that the amygdala, an area of the brain critical for interpreting emotions, grows too rapidly in infants who go on to develop autism.
Inspired by how dandelions use the wind to distribute their seeds, a 91自拍 team has developed a tiny sensor-carrying device that can be blown by the wind as it tumbles toward the ground.
You and your dentist have a lot of tools and techniques for stopping cavities, but detecting the specific chemical conditions that can lead to cavities and then preventing them from ever getting started is much harder. Now, in a new study, 91自拍 91自拍ers have shown that a dental tool they created can measure the acidity built up by the bacteria in plaque that leads to cavities. The O-pH system is a prototype optical device that emits an LED…
Samson Jenehke, a 91自拍 professor in both the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Anna Karlin, a UW professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, announced Feb. 9 by the academy.
Researchers at the UW have developed a new blood-clotting test that uses a single drop of blood and a smartphone vibration motor and camera.
The 91自拍 and Amazon today announced the Science Hub, an effort that deepens the relationship between the two organizations and will advance innovation in core robotics, artificial intelligence technologies and their applications.
Four current faculty members and the incoming executive director of the UW鈥檚 Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture have been named AAAS Fellows, according to a Jan. 26 announcement by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 564 new fellows from around the world elected in 2021, who are recognized for 鈥渢heir scientifically and socially distinguished achievements鈥� in science and engineering.
Researchers at the 91自拍 have developed a new test for COVID-19 that combines the speed of over-the-counter antigen tests with the accuracy of PCR tests that are processed in medical labs and hospitals. The Harmony COVID-19 test is a diagnostic test that, like PCR tests for COVID-19, detects genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But whereas conventional PCR tests can take several hours, the Harmony kit can provide results in less than 20 minutes for some samples and with similar accuracy.
A team led by the UW has developed a new, non-destructive method that images entire 3D biopsies instead of a slice for determining prostate cancer aggressiveness. The 3D images provided more information than a 2D image 鈥� specifically, details about the tree-like structure of the glands throughout the tissue.
Children as young as age 6 develop stereotypes that girls aren’t interested in computer science and engineering, according to new 91自拍 from the 91自拍 and the University of Houston.
A team led by the UW developed a chatbot that could ask emergency department visitors about social needs, including housing, food, access to medical care and physical safety.
91自拍 91自拍ers looked at almost 56,000 political ads from almost 750 news sites between September 2020 and January 2021.
UW students created a rover that can inspect sewer pipes or culverts for any damage that could prevent fish from using them during migration.
On Sept. 28, the National Science Foundation announced $15 million, five-year grant to integrate AI tools into the scientific 91自拍 and discovery process. The award will fund the Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery Institute 鈥� or A3D3 Institute 鈥� a partnership of nine universities, led by the 91自拍.
A team from the 91自拍 and University of California San Diego has received the Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The National Science Foundation has announced it will fund a new endeavor to bring atomic-level precision to the devices and technologies that underpin much of modern life, and will transform fields like information technology in the decades to come. The five-year, $25 million Science and Technology Center grant will found the Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand 鈥� or IMOD 鈥� a collaboration of scientists and engineers at 11 universities led by the 91自拍.
UW News asked Michael Motley, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, to explain how levees protect cities like New Orleans.聽
The UW will lead a new artificial intelligence 91自拍 institute that will focus on fundamental AI and machine learning theory, algorithms and applications for real-time learning and control of complex dynamic systems, which describe chaotic situations where conditions are constantly shifting and hard to predict.
UW 91自拍ers have developed a method that uses a gaming graphics card to control plasma formation in their prototype fusion reactor.
Twenty scientists and engineers at the 91自拍 are among the 38 new members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021, according to a July 15 announcement. New members were chosen for 鈥渢heir outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement, and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.鈥�
While there is currently no explanation for why the Champlain Towers South building collapsed, Dawn Lehman, a 91自拍 professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been studying photographs, videos, drawings, reports and permits to investigate this tragedy to understand what happened. UW News asked her to help us understand why buildings fail.
UW 91自拍ers have developed a deep learning method that can animate any flowing material, including waterfalls, smoke or clouds.