Crystals form through a variety of paths, with implications for biological, materials and environmental research

August 3, 2015

Crystals form through a variety of paths, with implications for biological, materials and environmental research

Artist's rendition of calcium carbonate crystals.

Crystals play an important role in the formation of substances from skeletons and shells to soils and semiconductor materials. But many aspects of their formation are shrouded in mystery. Scientists have long worked to understand how crystals grow into complex shapes. Now, an international group of researchers has shown how nature uses a variety of pathways to grow crystals beyond the classical, one-piece-at-a-time route. “Because crystallization is a ubiquitous phenomenon across a wide range of scientific disciplines, a shift in…

91爆料 to invest $37 million in nanofabrication lab critical to researchers, start-ups

Photo of 91爆料 students learning microfabrication techniques in the Washington Nanofabrication Facility.

The 91爆料 is investing up to $37 million in the Washington Nanofabrication Facility, which makes things for researchers and outside companies that aren’t practical, economical or possible to fabricate at commercial foundries: inconceivably tiny devices, chips made from unconventional materials that industrial factories won’t touch and devices that probe the boundaries of our universe.

July 22, 2015

Computer security tools for journalists lacking in a post-Snowden world

Despite heightened awareness of surveillance tactics and privacy breaches, existing computer security tools aren’t meeting the needs of journalists working with sensitive material, a new 91爆料 study finds.

July 20, 2015

The Next MacGyver will be a woman 鈥� and a 91爆料 engineering student may invent her

Concept art for "The Mind" television proposal

Astronautics doctoral student Nao Murakami wants to invent the heir to Angus MacGyver 鈥� the 1980s television hero who inspired a generation of engineers by foiling criminals with household items like cooking oil, a shop vac or a tube sock. Only this time the engineering heroine will be a woman.

July 16, 2015

Many mobile health apps neglect needs of blind users

Screenshot of mHealth app with poorly labeled buttons

91爆料 researchers who conducted the first academic review of nine mhealth iPhone apps on the market in March 2014 found none met all the criteria that would make them accessible to blind customers. Accessibility shortcomings ranged from improperly labeled buttons to layouts that confuse built-in screen readers that assist low-vision smartphone users.

June 30, 2015

91爆料 team programs solitary yeast cells to say ‘hello’ to one another

91爆料 researchers have produced cell-to-cell communication in baker’s yeast — a first step in learning to build multicellular organisms or artificial organs from scratch.

June 18, 2015

Saharan silver ants use hair to survive Earth’s hottest temperatures

An international team of researchers that includes a 91爆料 electrical engineer has discovered two key strategies that enable Saharan silver ants to survive in one of the hottest terrestrial environments on Earth.

June 12, 2015

91爆料 LEADs nation in female engineering faculty

The 91爆料 has the nation’s highest percentage of women in tenure-track engineering faculty positions. An online toolkit based on 91爆料’s leadership workshops for department chairs could help replicate that success at other institutions.

Microsoft dedicates $10M gift to new 91爆料 Computer Science & Engineering building

Microsoft Corp. is awarding a $10 million gift to kick-start a campaign to build a second Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) building on the 91爆料 campus as an “investment in students who will become the innovators and creators of tomorrow,”

June 2, 2015

91爆料 researchers scaling up fusion hopes with DOE grant

91爆料 researchers are scaling up a novel plasma confinement device with a DOE grant, in hopes of producing a self-sustaining reaction to create fusion energy.

June 1, 2015

91爆料 students use open source mapping to aid relief efforts in Nepal

91爆料 civil and environmental engineering students have joined a 4,000-volunteer crowdsourcing effort to turn satel颅lite imagery of Nepal into maps that aid earthquake relief efforts.

May 18, 2015

Study: 44 percent of parents struggle to limit cell phone use at playgrounds

A new 91爆料 study finds that cell phone use at playgrounds is a significant source of parental guilt, and that caregivers absorbed in their phones were much less attentive to children’s requests.

May 7, 2015

91爆料 researchers hack a teleoperated surgical robot to reveal security flaws

91爆料 researchers easily hacked a next generation teleoperated surgical robot 鈥� one used only for research purposes 鈥� to test how easily a malicious attack could hijack remotely-controlled operations in the future and to make those systems more secure.

May 6, 2015

91爆料 mapping app turns art into a sharable walking route

The Trace app turns a digital sketch that you draw on your smartphone screen 鈥� heart, maple leaf, raindrop 鈥� into a walking route that you can send to a friend. The recipient of the “gift” receives step-by-step walking directions that eventually reveal the hidden shape on a map.

April 27, 2015

New 91爆料 app can detect sleep apnea events via smartphone

The gold standard for diagnosing sleep apnea 鈥� a disease which affects roughly 1 in 13 Americans 鈥� requires an overnight hospital stay and costs thousands of dollars. A new smartphone app developed at the 91爆料 can wirelessly test for sleep apnea events in a person’s own bedroom without needing special sensors attached to the body.

April 16, 2015

Research identifies barriers in tracking meals and what foodies want

91爆料 and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers studied how mobile-based food journals integrate into everyday life. A new study suggests how future designs might make it easier and more effective.

April 14, 2015

91爆料 among select universities to use investigational Medtronic device, advance research into brain activity

Jeffrey Herron reviews a circuit board he designed to allow for wireless and mobile experiments with the Activa PC+S Deep Brain Stimulation system.

Researchers from the 91爆料 have teamed up with medical device manufacturer Medtronic to use the Activa庐 PC+S Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) system with people who have essential tremor.

April 9, 2015

Who’s a CEO? Google image results can shift gender biases

A 91爆料 study assesses how accurately gender representations in online image search results for 45 different occupations — from CEO to telemarketer to engineer — match reality. Exposure to skewed image results shifted people’s perceptions about how many women actually hold those jobs.

March 23, 2015

91爆料 scientists build a nanolaser using a single atomic sheet

91爆料 scientists have built a new nanometer-sized laser using a semiconductor that’s only three atoms thick. It could help open the door to next-generation computing that uses light, rather than electrons, to transfer information.

March 19, 2015

91爆料 geologist, engineer reflect back one year later on nation’s deadliest landslide

An aerial photo of the Oso, Wash., mudslide.

A 91爆料 geologist and geotechnical engineer look back at what the past year has meant, personally and professionally, as they helped recovery efforts from the nation’s deadliest landslide in our own backyard.

March 18, 2015

New Air Force center at 91爆料 learns from animals for better flight

Yonatan Munk, a postdoctoral researcher in biology, studies how moths fly.

A new center at the 91爆料 funded by the U.S. Air Force will focus on how elements in nature can help solve challenging engineering and technological problems related to building small, remotely operated aircraft.

March 10, 2015

An injectable 91爆料 polymer could keep soldiers, trauma patients from bleeding to death

a rendering of fibrin forming a blood clot using the polymer to bind.

91爆料 researchers have developed a new injectable polymer that strengthens blood clots, called PolySTAT. Administered in a simple shot, the polymer finds any unseen injuries and has the potential to keep trauma patients from bleeding to death before reaching medical care.

February 13, 2015

AAAS symposium looks at how to bring big-data skills to academia

A session Feb. 15 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting will explore how big data scientists can find careers at universities and within academic settings.

AAAS talk: Some bilinguals use emoticons more when chatting in non-native language

A research team has found that one group of bilingual speakers used emoticons more often when typing in their second language in casual, online communication than they did when typing in their native tongue.

February 5, 2015

New tool monitors effects of tidal, wave energy on marine habitat

From left to right: 91爆料 researchers Ben Rush, Nick Michel-Hart, James Joslin and Paul Gibbs prepare to test the monitoring device underwater in a tank on campus.

A robot developed at the 91爆料 will deploy instruments to gather information in unprecedented detail about how marine life interacts with underwater equipment used to harvest wave and tidal energy.

January 19, 2015

Boeing, 91爆料 open research lab on Seattle campus

Gov. Jay Inslee learns about riveting from Boeing engineer Riley Hanson Smith, left, and Sai Krovvidi, a 91爆料 doctoral student in mechanical engineering, at the opening of the Boeing Advanced Research Center on campus.

The Boeing Advanced Research Center, located in the Department of Mechanical Engineering on the 91爆料 campus, will let students and faculty members work collaboratively with Boeing engineers on aircraft and spacecraft assembly and manufacturing. Four initial projects are underway at the 91爆料, led by Boeing-employed affiliate instructors and 91爆料 engineering professors.

December 17, 2014

Improving forecasts for rain-on-snow flooding

Many of the worst West Coast winter floods involve heavy rains and melting snow, and 91爆料 hydrology experts are using the physics of these events to better predict the risks.

December 1, 2014

‘What is HCDE?’ New comics class aims to answer the question

Undergraduate students Xiangyi (Anne) Zheng, left, and Daniel Aldridge give feedback on each other's comics at a recent class.

A new class at the 91爆料 is using comics to explain what, exactly, the field of human-centered design is all about.

November 20, 2014

91爆料 undergrad’s early life challenges become a hectic schedule of opportunity

From starting his own company 鈥� and recruiting 11 friends to join him 鈥� and running a successful nonprofit to doing research in the lab and taking a full course load, engineering undergraduate student David Coven is an expert schedule juggler.

November 12, 2014

Moving cameras talk to each other to identify, track pedestrians

91爆料 electrical engineers have developed a way to automatically track people across moving and still cameras by using an algorithm that trains the networked cameras to learn one another’s differences.

November 5, 2014

91爆料 study shows direct brain interface between humans

An example of how the brain to brain interface demonstration would look.

91爆料 researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people as part of a scientific study following the team’s initial demonstration a year ago.

October 24, 2014

Large X-ray scanner to produce 3-D images for labs across campus

A state-of-the-art imaging machine is coming to the 91爆料 for use by researchers in a variety of disciplines.

U.S. Navy awards $8 million to develop wave, tidal energy technology

The 91爆料 has an $8 million, four-year contract to develop technologies that can harness waves, tides and currents to power naval facilities worldwide.

October 10, 2014

Engineering lecture series focuses on technologies for the heart

The 91爆料’s College of Engineering 2014 fall lecture series will feature faculty researchers in engineering and medicine who are improving cardiac medical care with new technologies.

October 8, 2014

91爆料 fusion reactor concept could be cheaper than coal

A prototype of the 91爆料's current fusion experiment.

91爆料 engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output.

October 2, 2014

91爆料’s Jeffrey Heer wins award to support data visualization research

Jeffrey Heer, a 91爆料 associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received an award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop new theories, tools and techniques for data visualization that help scientists see and understand big data.

September 30, 2014

91爆料 students to build hybrid-electric muscle car in EcoCAR 3 contest

The 91爆料 is one of 16 schools invited to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors Co. EcoCAR 3 competition that spans four years with stand-alone contests each spring. Their challenge in this next competition is to convert a Chevrolet Camaro into a hybrid-electric car.

September 22, 2014

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