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Wed, 02/09/2022

UW and Amazon announce creation of the Science Hub

The collaboration will focus on advancing innovation in core robotics, and AI technologies and their applications. Professor Ashis Banerjee is part of the joint advisory committee.

An artistic rendering of a heart using lines

Mon, 02/07/2022 | UW Medicine

How to do heart research during a pandemic

Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine share how they’ve adapted space technology to understand how the heart can be injured by the coronavirus.

Professor Corie L. Cobb

Mon, 01/24/2022 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Corie L. Cobb awarded DARPA Director's Fellowship

ME Professor Corie L. Cobb, the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Professor in Clean Energy, has been selected as recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship Award.

Two people, a man and a woman, both roughly in their 20s, pose for a photo in front of a projector screen that says "Best Paper Award - 1st Place". The woman shakes the hand of another man, older than them, to the side of her.

Thu, 01/20/2022

Award-winning medical robotics paper aims to improve access to bladder cancer detection

With research aiming to increase access to critical cancer detection technology, ME graduate students Andrew Lewis and Chen Gong won the Best Paper Award at the 2021 International Symposium on Medical Robotics.

ME graduate student Shayla Payne talks with fellow Engineering Innovation in Health teaching assistant Kathleen Kearney.

Thu, 01/13/2022

On a path to health innovation

From student to teacher to researcher and intern, Shayla Payne shares the path that has led her toward a career in engineering for human health.

In the background is some carbon fiber tape on a machine with text that says "composites - faster, smarter" on it and photos of five professors

Tue, 01/11/2022 | National Science Foundation

Composites: faster, smarter

A new NSF grant supports UW planning for an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) on Data-driven High-rate Composites Manufacturing to partner with industry on high-performance, lightweight materials.

A scientific figure showing lots of advanced science stuff related to bioimaging

Mon, 01/03/2022 | NanoES

UW researchers developing miniaturized imaging device to treat heart attack, stroke

With new funding from NSF, a UW research team aims to develop a dramatically smaller endoscope to image previously inaccessible areas of the heart and brain.

Headshots of Ayokunle Olanrewaju and Mehmet Kurt

Thu, 12/09/2021

Welcome new faculty

The ME department welcomes new faculty members for the 2021–2022 school year.

Two people stand on either side of a set of advanced equipment. The one on the left is wearing a white doctor's coat.

Thu, 12/09/2021 | UW News

3D imaging method may help doctors better determine prostate cancer aggressiveness

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 — specifically, details about the tree-like structure of the glands throughout the tissue.

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Tue, 11/23/2021 | UW Graduate School

The impact of patient voice in rehabilitation

Beth Halsne won The Graduate School's Three Minute Thesis Competition for her research on the power of patient input in picking prosthetic feet that work best for them.