The public-private partnership led by Washington State University with support from the 91爆料 targets a global health problem: the lack of whole grains in people鈥檚 diets, which contributes to widespread health problems.


The public-private partnership led by Washington State University with support from the 91爆料 targets a global health problem: the lack of whole grains in people鈥檚 diets, which contributes to widespread health problems.

Election recognizes the new member鈥檚 鈥渙utstanding record of scientific and technical achievement and willingness to assist the Academy in providing the best available scientific information and technical understanding to inform complex policy decisions in Washington.鈥澛

Robots in warehouses and even around our houses struggle to identify and pick up objects if they are too close together, or if a space is cluttered. This is because robots lack what psychologists call “object unity,” or our ability to identify things even when we can’t see all of them. Researchers at the 91爆料 have developed a way to teach robots this skill.

The most comprehensive study yet of long-term ultrafine particle exposure found that concentrations of this tiny pollutant reflect the city鈥檚 decades-old racial and economic divides. 聽

As the city of Seattle shut down in March 2020 to try to slow the spread of COVID-19, a group of 91爆料 researchers decided to track how the city would react.

91爆料 researchers developed a project that scans the streets every few weeks to document how Seattle has reacted to the pandemic and what recovery looks like.

A 91爆料 team has received a grant to develop a model that uses local data to generate policy recommendations that could help lower COVID-19 infections in King County.

Researchers at the 91爆料 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.

Two faculty members in the 91爆料 College of Engineering have been elected as 2018 fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Tom Furness, professor of industrial and systems engineering, was honored for 鈥渓eadership in virtual and augmented reality鈥 and Siddhartha 鈥淪idd鈥 Srinivasa, professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, was recognized for 鈥渃ontributions to robotic manipulation and human-robot interaction.鈥