Congratulations to MolES faculty Lilo Pozzo’s senior design team “Polydrop,” grand prize winners at the 2013 UW Environmental Innovation Challenge, an annual event sponsored by the UW’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. Their prize-winning prototype is an additive that transforms regular coatings into conductive coatings to enable the use of carbon fiber composites in the transportation industry, a solution that prevents the accumulation of static charges that can interfere with sensitive electronics. Learn more "º Read More
Guest post by MolES faculty member and Chemical Engineering chair Daniel Schwartz on the Foster Unplugged blog
When I think Cleantech, my mind goes straight to the triangular logo on my waste container at work: "reduce, reuse, recycle." These three words are central to most enduring cleantech innovations, though sometimes in paradoxical ways. "Reduce" is the most prone to paradox, since reducing one thing generally happens by increasing another. Let's explore this "reduce" paradox via two well-known examples in that space.
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UW Bioengineering assistant professor Dr. Kim Woodrow’s was named on this list, compiled by Newsweek/The Daily Beast to accompany this week’s Women in the World Summit. Dr. Woodrow was cited for her work creating dissolvable female condoms that prevent pregnancy and protect against HIV, for which she received $1 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read More
By Michelle Ma
March 19, 2013
Better diagnosis and treatment of cancer could hinge on the ability to better understand a single cell at its molecular level. New research offers a more comprehensive way of analyzing one cell's unique behavior, using an array of colors to show patterns that could indicate why a cell will or won't become cancerous.
A University of Washington team has developed a new method for color-coding cells that allows them to illuminate 100 biomarkers, a ten-time increase from the current research standard, to help analyze individual cells from cultures or tissue biopsies. Read More
Presenting at a research conference in Washington D.C. is an unimaginable dream for most college freshmen. For six University of Washington College of Engineering students, this dream is a reality; they will present their research at the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Conference on March 9.
Kasey Acob, Bailey Bonaci, David Coven, Daniel Corona, Mikael Perla, and Verlanie Rodillas are traveling to Washington D.C. to present the research they conducted during the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) program the summer of 2012.
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MolES Institute member and Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering James Carothers was named a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow in an announcement today by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Carothers’s research focuses on developing design platforms for engineering functionally-complex RNA-based control systems. These systems process cellular information and program the expression of very large numbers of genes, enabling both increased understanding of fundamental biological processes and applications to meet the demands for renewable chemicals and new therapies.
Three members of the UW faculty are among 126 recipients of 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships. Read More
December 18, 2012
The Henry Luce Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce Program has awarded the University of Washington (UW) a roughly $500,000 grant to support the creation of two professorships for women in engineering. The grant, which will be distributed over the course of five years, will support the addition of two faculty members; one will be a scholar in the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute (MolES) and the other a scholar in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), two new innovative interdisciplinary research centers. Read More
The 2012 Engineering Lecture Series took a close look at how engineers are using small molecules to solve big problems. The emerging field of molecular engineering builds from the bottom up and aims high, promising new ways to diagnose disease earlier and treat it more precisely, and inexpensive and practical ways to harness clean sources of energy. Attendees learned how the UW’s new Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute is aiding these efforts by bringing together researchers from diverse disciplines in a collaborative working environment. Read More
UW Bioengineering faculty Drs. David Castner and Xiaohu Gao wereinducted as AIMBE Fellows at the organization’s annual meeting February 17-19 in Washington, DC. AIMBE, or the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,is a non-profitadvocacy organization dedicated toimproving lives through medical and biological engineering. Drs. Castner and Gao join a distinguished group of more tahn 1,000 other fellows from academia,industry and government who have made significant contributions to bioengineering research, industrial practice, and education.
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A paper in Science describes an organic crystal that shows promise as a cheap, flexible, nontoxic material for the working parts of memory chips, sensors and energy-harvesting devices.