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.
A 91自拍 professor, Shwetak Patel, is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Prize in Computing for contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health, the Association for Computing Machinery or ACM announced today.
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.
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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?
The 91自拍 today marked the official opening of the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering on its Seattle campus. The building doubles the space available to UW鈥檚 Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering to enable a new wave of computing innovation and to educate more of Washington鈥檚 students for 21st century careers that will help shape the future of technology.
Three faculty members at the 91自拍 have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 19, include Kelley Harris, an assistant professor of genome sciences at the UW School of Medicine; and Alvin Cheung and Shayan Oveis Gharan, both assistant professors in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
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.
Researchers at the 91自拍 have genetically modified a common houseplant to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.
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.
Recent notable books by UW faculty members study politics and culture in post-World War II Japan, explore regime change, nonprofit management, documents from the ancient world and more.
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.
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.
People who have submitted photos to the #MemoriesInDNA project have selected images of family members, favorite places and tasty food that will be preserved for years in the form of synthetic DNA. Now this collection will be headed to the final frontier: space.
The National Science Foundation announced on Sept. 11 that it is awarding grants totaling $8.5 million to 19 collaborative projects at 23 universities for the study of complex and entrenched problems in data science. Three of these projects will be based at the 91自拍 and led by 91自拍ers in the College of Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Last year, King County Metro and the Seattle Department of Transportation started a pilot program that allowed Microsoft’s and Seattle Children’s Hospital’s private shuttles to pick up employees at a few public bus stops throughout Seattle. Now a recent study from 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 suggests that public buses are unaffected by private shuttles most of the time.
Researchers at the 91自拍 have developed a new method that gives aircraft a backup system in case GPS fails: An antenna on the ground that can tell a drone where it is. The team successfully tested their system in June.
The NIH has awarded a $6.5 million, five-year grant to the 91自拍 and partner institutions to establish the Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling. The center’s primary goal is to develop more effective predictive models of biological systems, which are used in 91自拍 and medicine.
When young children talk to voice-activated technologies, the devices don’t always respond in a helpful way. A new 91自拍 study suggests that these interfaces could be designed to be more responsive 鈥� repeating or prompting the user, for example 鈥� and be more useful to more people.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an expected $10.75 million, four-year grant to the 91自拍, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and other partner institutions for a new interdisciplinary 91自拍 center to define the enigmatic rules that govern how molecular-scale building blocks assemble into ordered structures and give rise to complex hierarchical materials.
In a paper published online this spring in the journal Nature Photonics, scientists at the 91自拍 report that a prototype semiconductor thin-film has performed even better than today鈥檚 best solar cell materials at emitting light.
91自拍 assistant professor of human centered design and engineering Daniela Rosner explores some hidden histories in technology design in her new book “Critical Fabulations.” The book highlights the idea that design stories from the past can show today’s designers how to create more inclusive technology.
Daniel Schwartz, a 91自拍 professor of chemical engineering and director of the Clean Energy Institute, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation this week.
In an effort to improve the student experience and provide certainty for prospective computer science majors, the 91自拍鈥檚 Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is expanding its direct to major admissions program for incoming freshmen. Beginning with the class of fall 2019, direct admission from high school will be the primary pathway into computer science for the majority of UW undergraduates.