Eight scientists and engineers from the 91自拍 have been elected this year to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Engineering
Six 91自拍 professors are to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, according to an announcement July 2 from the White House. The award, also known as the PECASE, is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early-career scientists and engineers “who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.”
UW 91自拍ers created a method for two people help a third person solve a task using only their minds.
The National Science Foundation is awarding a second round of funding for the Regional Big Data Innovation Hubs 鈥� organizations launched in 2015 to build and strengthen data science partnerships across industry, academia, nonprofits and government to address scientific and societal challenges. The 91自拍, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego, will continue to coordinate the West Big Data Innovation Hub.
UW 91自拍ers have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they’re asleep 鈥� all without touching them. The tool is essentially an app for a smart speaker or a smartphone that allows it to detect the signature sounds of cardiac arrest and call for help.
UW 91自拍ers have figured out how to take a person from a 2D photo or a work of art and make them run, walk or jump out of the frame. The system also allows users to view the animation in three dimensions using augmented reality tools.
91自拍 91自拍ers have developed a novel solution to change the feeling of impact when one thing hits another. It has potential for use in spacecraft, cars and beyond — inspired by origami.
91自拍 91自拍ers used the paper folding art of origami to develop a novel solution to help reduce the forces associated with impact 鈥� like in car crashes, football helmets, landing spacecraft and more.
In a paper published May 20 in the journal Nature Materials, a team of 91自拍ers from the 91自拍 unveiled a new strategy to keep proteins intact and functional in synthetic biomaterials for tissue engineering. Their approach modifies proteins at a specific point so that they can be chemically tethered to the scaffold using light. Since the tether can also be cut by laser light, this method can create evolving patterns of signal proteins throughout a biomaterial scaffold to grow tissues made up of different types of cells.
Researchers at the UW have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and the phone’s microphone and speaker.
The 91自拍 and its Clean Energy Institute named Kevin Klustner executive director of the Center for Advanced Materials and Clean Energy Technologies, or CAMCET. When complete, CAMCET will be a 340,000-square-foot building that will bring together UW scientists and engineers with industry, civic and nonprofit partners to accelerate clean energy solutions for a healthy planet.
Researchers at the 91自拍, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that they can use extremely high pressure and temperature to introduce other elements into nanodiamonds, making them potentially useful in cell and tissue imaging, as well as quantum computing.
Engineering Discovery Days is a yearly event that invites Washington state fourth- through eighth-graders to have fun leaning about STEM with the College of Engineering.
UW 91自拍ers have led the development of Project Sidewalk, an online crowdsourcing game that lets anyone with an internet connection use Google Street View to virtually explore neighborhoods and label curb ramps, missing or rough sidewalks, obstacles and more.
A team led by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 has developed synthetic peptides that target and inhibit the small, toxic protein aggregates that are thought to trigger Alzheimer’s disease.
A UW team tested how well current water and wastewater disinfecting methods affect antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial DNA. While these methods work well to deter bacterial growth, they had varied success in either degrading or deactivating a representative antibiotic resistance gene.
The 91自拍, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Microsoft Quantum announced this week that they have joined forces in a new coalition, the Northwest Quantum Nexus, to bring about a revolution in quantum 91自拍 and technology.
UW and Microsoft 91自拍ers have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA 鈥� a key step in moving the technology out of the 91自拍 lab and into commercial data centers.
UW 91自拍ers have created a novel system that can measure platelet function within two minutes and can help doctors determine which trauma patients might need a blood transfusion upon being admitted to a hospital.
Eight 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 have been named 2019 Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows.
Black and Hispanic Americans bear a disproportionate burden from air pollution generated mainly by non-Hispanic white Americans, according to new 91自拍 from a team led by the 91自拍 and the University of Minnesota.
Researchers at the 91自拍 have developed a robotic system that can feed people who need someone to help them eat.
On March 5, the CERN 91自拍 board approved a new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva to search for evidence of fundamental dark matter particles. UW scientists are part of this endeavor, the Forward Search Experiment 鈥� or FASER 鈥� which seeks to answer one of the outstanding questions in particle physics: What is dark matter made of?
A new website from the UW’s Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom, the duo behind the popular “Calling BS” class, asks viewers to choose which of two realistic face photos is real and which is a complete fake.
In a paper published Feb. 25 in the journal Nature, a 91自拍-led team of physicists report that it has developed a new system to trap individual excitons 鈥� bound pairs of electrons and their associated positive charges. Their system could form the basis of a novel experimental platform for monitoring excitons with precision and potentially developing new quantum technologies.
A UW-led team has found that early spring rainfall warms up a thawing permafrost bog in Alaska and promotes the growth of plants and methane-producing microbes.
A center housed at the 91自拍 offers a new way for scientists to get their hands on state-of-the-art equipment to study the effects of natural disasters. The RAPID Facility, which is the first of its kind in the world, contains over 300 instruments that are available for 91自拍ers around the world to use.
Three teams led by 91自拍 91自拍ers 鈥� Scott Dunham, Hugh Hillhouse and Devin MacKenzie 鈥� have received competitive awards totaling more than $2.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office for projects that will advance 91自拍 and development in photovoltaic materials, which are an essential component of solar cells and impact the amount of sunlight that is converted into electricity.
UW 91自拍ers have developed a smartphone app that uses sonar to monitor someone’s breathing rate and sense when an opioid overdose has occurred.
A UW team created a mechanical eye under the ocean’s surface that could live near renewable-energy sites and use a series of sensors to watch nearby animals. On Dec. 13, the 91自拍ers put the newest version of the AMP into the waters of Seattle’s Portage Bay for two weeks of preliminary testing before a more thorough analysis is conducted in Sequim, Washington.
Farmers can already use drones to soar over huge fields and monitor temperature, humidity or crop health. But these machines need so much power to fly that they can’t get very far without needing a charge. Now, engineers at the 91自拍 have created a sensing system that is small enough to ride aboard a bumblebee.
A new collaborative study led by a 91自拍 team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles and the 91自拍 could provide engineers new design rules for creating microelectronics, membranes and tissues, and open up better production methods for new materials.
In a paper published Oct. 8 in the journal Nano Letters, a team from the 91自拍 and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan announced that it has constructed functional metalenses that are one-tenth to one-half the thickness of the wavelengths of light that they focus. Their metalenses, which were constructed out of layered 2D materials, were as thin as 190 nanometers 鈥� less than 1/100,000ths of an inch thick.
UPS announced today that it will be pilot-testing deliveries with cargo e-bikes in downtown Seattle. This test is expected to last a year, and the 91自拍鈥檚 Urban Freight Lab at the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center will help UPS evaluate the study鈥檚 outcomes.
The 91自拍 will lead one of three teams that will partner with the Honda Research Institute to explore the mechanisms behind curiosity and seek advances in artificial cognition. The UW-led team will receive $2.7 million over the next three years to generate a mathematical model of curiosity.
In a new UW-authored book, a cartoon robot takes young readers on a School of Oceanography voyage to explore the deep ocean.
The 91自拍鈥檚 Urban Freight Lab at the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center has been looking for solutions to Seattle’s traffic congestion: Parcel lockers that aren’t owned by a specific company could alleviate the strain. Now the 91自拍ers have identified five viable locker locations at three different Seattle Link light rail stations for a future pilot test.
Researchers at the 91自拍 have developed a new machine-learning system, called Prescience, which uses input from patient charts and standard operating room sensors to predict the likelihood that a patient will develop hypoxemia 鈥� a condition when blood oxygen levels dip slightly below normal. Prescience also provides real-world explanations behind its predictions.
Engineers at the 91自拍 have developed 3D printed devices that can track and store their use 鈥� without using batteries or electronics. Instead, this system uses a method called backscatter, through which a device can share information by reflecting signals that have been transmitted to it with an antenna.
This fall, the 91自拍’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three College of Engineering faculty whose 91自拍 is accelerating positive impact here and around the world.