A team of students from the University of Washington is developing self-charging drones that use AI to survey electrical lines to look for potential threats that could knock out power… Read More
Since 2014, UW Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design has spun off 10 startups, and the institute’s director, University of Washington biochemist David Baker, has co-founded 21 tech companies. After Baker… Read More
In a race against time, a smartwatch might be the best defense. More specifically, the time concern is the loss of pulse brought on by cardiac arrest. And the defense… Read More
The fintech incubator at the University of Washington is back. The UW’s CoMotion innovation arm announced Tuesday that it is partnering with data intelligence company Curinos to launch a new… Read More
Best class ever? That was my thought after watching eight teams pitch their startup ideas on Wednesday in Seattle, the culmination of an entrepreneurship class at the University of Washington… Read More
A trio of students from the University of Washington won the grand prize at the UW’s Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge for their non-invasive jaundice-detecting technology. “The whole motivation is we… Read More
The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology is receiving a $10 million grant to support the training of new scientists and the launch of biotech startups pursuing therapies for human diseases.… Read More
— Mary-Claire King, a groundbreaking innovator in genetics, has received The National Academy of Sciences’ most prestigious metal, the Public Welfare Medal. King is a professor of medicine with the… Read More
It has been a wild few weeks and an eventful few months in AI: DeepSeek, OpenAI, Stargate, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce, Google, Elon Musk, and much more. With the DeepSeek advances… Read More
The fight now unfolding over the Trump administration’s sudden limit on National Institutes of Health grant funding could have deep financial implications for Washington state’s top research institutions. Those impacted… Read More
The University of Washington, one of the nation’s top research universities and an academic linchpin of the Seattle region’s tech industry, announced today that Robert J. Jones will become its 34th president,… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we dive deep into DeepSeek, the AI project shaking up the tech world, to better understand the underlying technical advances and the long-term implications… Read More
A University of Washington study on how artificial intelligence systems portray teenagers found that the systems’ reliance on media coverage about teens led to strong negative responses. Information School doctoral… Read More
A new initiative at the University of Washington called Society + Technology, born out of a task force first assembled in 2021, is working to foster cross-campus collaboration and boost… Read More
The City of Seattle, the University of Washington, the climate community organizer 9Zero, and a climate tech investment nonprofit called VertueLab have joined forces to launch the Seattle Climate Innovation… Read More
As artificial intelligence chatbots are popping up to provide information in all sorts of applications, University of Washington researchers have developed a new way to fine-tune their responses. Dubbed “variational… Read More
Editor’s note: This series profiles five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world. They will be recognized Dec. 12… Read More
When I was searching for a hotel earlier this year for a volleyball tournament, I could easily find information on lodging prices, ratings and availability. What I needed to know… Read More
Editor’s note: This series profiles five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world. They will be recognized Dec. 12… Read More
Three students are pursuing their dreams at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business with help from the “Richard Tait Memorial Entrepreneurship Scholarship,” a program set up to honor… Read More
Some of the top computer science engineers at the University of Washington showed off their latest work this week at the annual Research Showcase hosted by The Paul G. Allen School of… Read More
As employers increasingly use digital tools to process job applications, a new study from the University of Washington highlights the potential for significant racial and gender bias when using AI… Read More
The University of Washington is part of a new federally selected Northwest Region Hub to support the commercialization and deployment of technologies in fields including medical tech, energy, clean tech,… Read More
Three weeks after University of Washington biochemist David Baker won a Nobel Prize, the latest venture to spin out from his lab — Archon Biosciences — has emerged from stealth… Read More
Artificial intelligence is taking center stage at the University of Washington’s computer science school. The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering held its annual Research Showcase on… Read More
In the high-stress conditions of operating rooms, emergency rooms and intensive care units, medical providers can swap syringes and vials, delivering the wrong medications to patients. Now a wearable camera… Read More
Printing a new gadget or art piece from a tabletop 3D printer is all fine and good. But what if the printer was mobile, and could move around a house… Read More
Could microbes endure just beneath the surface of Mars, in layers of dusty ice exposed to just the right amount of sunlight? A newly published study suggests those might be… Read More
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile has now been equipped with all three of its mirrors, plus a camera for good measure. Last week’s installation… Read More
University of Washington biochemist David Baker has won a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for more than two decades of discoveries about the molecular structure of proteins… Read More
