innovation
December 8, 2018
The language of dance
Contorting the imagination with choreographer Alice Gosti, ’08.
December 19, 2016
Smarter garbage
Compost. Recycle. Landfill. Three words, so many headaches. Two design professors think interactive trash bins could make life much easier.
September 1, 2015
Introducing GIX
Last summer, high up in a Bellevue office building’s bright conference room, leaders from the UW, Microsoft Corp., and China’s Tsinghua University announced a novel partnership. They will train a new generation of innovative scientists, technicians and entrepreneurs.
It all starts here
Fluke Hall provides a base for innovators to develop their products and look for investors.
Innovation in action
Innovation at the UW occurs across disciplines, as well as in how the institution is run and how students are educated. Here are a few examples of innovation in action.
The CoMotion Commitment
While the UW is known for its groundbreaking research, it has not been perceived as spry or supportive in leveraging the expertise of its faculty. Vikram Jandhyala has set out to change that.
A new U-District
This is not a fuddy-duddy column about how great the old days were in the U District. It’s just that with every passing week, the area becomes a bit more unrecognizable.
June 1, 2014
Editor's Eye: Commencing
You have to be bold to be an innovator. You have to have confidence. You have to take a chance. And who better to face that head-on than the thousands of students who will be marching into Husky Stadium on June 14 for Commencement.
March 1, 2012
Open for business
Over the next three years, the Ideas to Impact initiative aims to double the number of companies started by the UW.
March 1, 2011
Surgery offers hope
University of Washington surgeons in October performed the world’s first surgical procedure to implant a device that could give hope to millions of people suffering from Ménière’s disease — an insidious, mysterious disorder.
June 1, 2010
Innovative idealism
Student teams from across the University of Washington and other state schools heralded their inventions of clean, green technologies at the second annual UW Environmental Innovation Challenge.
March 1, 2010
Life-saving loophole
Fifty years ago, UW doctors developed the Scribner shunt, a simple device that created a literal loophole in the death sentence doled out to those suffering with end-stage kidney disease.
Ingenuity reigns
The UW I find myself returning to is innovative, entrepreneurial, alive. I am lucky to be here, helping tell its stories.
December 1, 2009
Turning to tech
Two University of Washington alums—Steve Singer, ’81, and Ryan Oftebro, ’95, ’03—are carrying on the School of Pharmacy’s tradition of pioneering innovations.
June 1, 2009
The first bioengineer
Wayne Quinton not only designed a laundry list of life-saving medical devices, but became the first practitioner of an entirely new field: bioengineering.
September 1, 2002
Light speed
By harnessing light instead of electricity to send information, Larry Dalton promises to change the way we work and live.