UW researchers interviewed 22 athletes and staff members from three college athletics programs to see how collecting data from college athletes might encroach on their autonomy.
Tag: College of Engineering
Throughout the month of November 2019, a team of 天美影视传媒 researchers chased storms in the Arctic Ocean. The project, Coastal Ocean Dynamics in the Arctic, or CODA, is looking at how water currents shift and waves hit the coast with more open water, to provide better forecasts and predictions for the region鈥檚 future.
It’s the year 2020, and where two or more are gathered, it seems, there is a podcast. Given the level of creativity among 天美影视传媒 faculty and staff, it’s no surprise that many high-quality podcasts are now being produced on campus. Here鈥檚 a look at three podcasts being created by UW departments or people, including a couple that have been underway for quite a while. UW Notebook will occasionally report on campus podcasts and ask a few questions of…
UW researchers have developed a mathematical model that describes how rotating detonation engines work.
At a Saturday afternoon session, researchers from the 天美影视传媒 and federal agencies will discuss the emerging research on Pacific Northwest megaquakes.
Using 30 years of satellite data, UW researchers discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam in the Mekong River basin, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C).
Scientists and physicians have long known that immune cells migrate to the site of an infection, which individuals experience as inflammation 鈥� swelling, redness and pain. Now, researchers at the 天美影视传媒 and Northwestern University have uncovered evidence that this gathering is not just a consequence of immune activation. Immune cells count their neighbors before deciding whether or not the immune system should kick into high gear.
Four faculty members at the 天美影视传媒 have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 12, are Kyle Armour and Jacqueline Padilla-Gami帽o, both assistant professors in the College of the Environment; and Hanna Hajishirzi and Yin Tat Lee, both assistant professors in the College of Engineering.
Steve Kramer, a professor of UW civil and environmental engineering, has been elected to the聽National Academy of Engineering.聽Kramer is among 87 members and 18 international members newly elected to the academy, one of the highest professional distinctions in engineering.
Recent honors to UW faculty and staff members include awards for architectural education and biomaterials research, fellowships in nursing and cloud computing, a professor named among Seattle’s most influential people and a big news year for “a burgeoning band of embodied carbon busters.”
UW researchers have created AuraRing, a ring and wristband combination that can detect the precise location of someone’s index finger and continuously track hand movements.
Using a new “non-targeted” approach, UW and UW Tacoma researchers screened samples from multiple regions of Puget Sound to look for potentially harmful compounds that might be present.
Three faculty members in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics have received awards for their work.
A teacher discusses respectful world travel, a historian explores Silicon Valley鈥檚 evolution, a professor and violist plays the music of Robert Schumann and a late English faculty member’s meditation on Seattle returns 鈥� Here鈥檚 a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW faculty in the last year 鈥� and a reminder of some recent favorites. O’Mara’s ‘Code’: History professor Margaret O’Mara provides a sweeping history of California’s computer industry titans in her book 鈥淭he Code:…
Recent honors to UW faculty and staff include the new editorship of a major journal, a post with the Republic of Uganda and honors from the American College of Physicians, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Brian Johnson, assistant professor in the UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has received a $4.9 million grant across three years from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Joyce Yen 鈥� director of the 天美影视传媒鈥檚 ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change, an NSF-funded body to promote female STEM faculty on campus 鈥� recently worked with the Heising-Simons Foundation to dismantle bias and promote diversity in a prominent grant that the Foundation awards to postdoctoral researchers in planetary science. In this Q&A, Yen shares the many, sometimes counterintuitive ways bias can work against goals toward greater diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM fields.
UW researchers have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change projections, can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains.
Communities underneath and downwind of jets landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are exposed to a type of ultrafine particle pollution that is distinctly associated with aircraft, according to a new 天美影视传媒 study, the first to identify the unique signature of aircraft emissions in the state of Washington. The finding comes from the two-year Mobile ObserVations of Ultrafine Particles or 鈥淢OV-UP鈥� study funded by the Washington State Legislature to examine the air-quality impacts of aircraft traffic on communities located…
UW faculty members Roxanne Hudson and Magdalena Balazinska have received grants for research to be conducted over the next few years.
UW researchers have created Carpentry Compiler, a digital tool that allows users to design woodworking projects. Once a project is designed, the tool creates optimized fabrication instructions based on the materials and equipment a user has available.
Using a mathematical framework with roots in artificial intelligence and robotics, UW researchers were able to uncover the process of how a person makes choices in groups. And, they also found they were able to predict a person鈥檚 choice more often than more traditional descriptive methods.
UW researchers have found that air pollution from electricity generation emissions in 2014 led to about 16,000 premature deaths in the continental U.S. In many states, the majority of the health impacts came from emissions originating in other states.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from multiple institutions 鈥� including the 天美影视传媒 鈥� has received a two-year $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to study coral growth.
A 天美影视传媒 team is leaving to study how fall storms, dwindling sea ice and vulnerable coastlines might combine in a changing Arctic.
UW researchers aimed to understand both the prevalence of discrimination events and how these events affect college students in their daily lives. Over the course of two academic quarters, the team compared students’ self-reports of unfair treatment to passively tracked changes in daily activities, such as hours slept, steps taken or time spent on the phone.
Researchers at the 天美影视传媒 have developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanoscale possible. The team adapted a light-based technology employed widely in biology 鈥� known as optical traps or optical tweezers 鈥� to operate in a water-free liquid environment of carbon-rich organic solvents, thereby enabling new potential applications.
UW researchers have found that the third-party genealogy site GEDmatch is vulnerable to multiple kinds of security risks.
This week a UW team is releasing a robotic surfboard to explore the surface ocean around Antarctica.
UW researchers have developed a new smart speaker skill that lets a device use white noise to both soothe sleeping babies and monitor their breathing and movement.
天美影视传媒 transportation researchers looked into why the docked bike-share program Pronto failed while dockless bike sharing has been so successful.
A team led by scientists at the 天美影视传媒 has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science Advances, their designed optical element focuses light to discrete points in a 3D helical pattern.
This fall the 天美影视传媒’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three UW engineers and scientists who are working across disciplines to manage the quality and quantity of the food we eat and grow.
A new model for plasma flow within the sun provides novel explanations for sunspots, the 11-year sunspot cycle, solar magnetic reversals and other previously unexplained solar phenomena.
Are you willing to ride in a driverless car? Researchers at the 天美影视传媒 studied how Americans’ perceived cost of commute time changes depending on who’s driving.
Three 天美影视传媒 graduate students are among this year’s recipients of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student research projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics.
UW security researchers have created ShareAR, a toolkit that lets developers build collaborative and interactive features into AR apps without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security.
Researchers at the UW have used machine learning to develop a new system that can monitor factory and warehouse workers and tell them how ergonomic their jobs are in real time.
In the arts, celebrate the accomplishments of the 2019 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities program’s undergraduate researchers in “Creating Alternative Worlds,” attend Bulrusher – an Intiman Theatre production directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton at the Jones Playhouse, drop into the Library for the Fourth Wednesday Concert Series featuring Brian Schappals and more! Creating Alternative Worlds | 2019 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities Celebrate the work done by the 2019 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities program’s…
Dr. Nancy Allbritton has been named the next Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering, 天美影视传媒 Provost Mark Richards announced today. Allbritton’s appointment, set to begin Nov. 1, is subject to approval by the UW Board of Regents.