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On-demand vaccines possible with engineered nanoparticles | UW TNews

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Michelle Ma

Vaccines combat diseases and protect populations from outbreaks, but the life-saving technology leaves room for improvement. Vaccines usually are made en masse in centralized locations far removed from where they will be used. They are expensive to ship and keep refrigerated and they tend to have short shelf lives.

University of Washington engineers hope a new type of vaccine they have shown to work in mice will one day make it cheaper and easy to manufacture on-demand vaccines for humans. Read More

François Baneyx Elected to the AAAS

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Head shotFélicitation à François Baneyx, who was just named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Baneyx, professor of chemical engineering and of bioengineering and MolES faculty member, is honored for his contributions in biotechnology and biological nanotechnology. Baneyx studies protein folding and manipulates cellular pathways to make protein production simple, efficient and inexpensive. He also designs proteins that can make and assemble inorganic structures for applications ranging from vaccine production to bio-sensing and next-generation electronics. Baneyx served as director of the UW's Center for Nanotechnology from 2005 to 2013. Read More

Environmental Innovation Challenge Cleantech Prototype Funding

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About the Environmental Innovation Challenge

If you’ve got a passion for cleantech and the desire to make an impact, the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge is for you. In the EIC, interdisciplinary student teams define an environmental problem, design a solution, produce a prototype, and create a business summary that demonstrates market opportunity and the potential for impact.  We define cleantech innovation as any product, process or service that reduces waste, minimizes energy consumption, and contributes to a healthier planet. Re-use/recycling, water usage, energy generation, green consumer products, nanotechnology – all are ripe for innovation. Read More

11/7: Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus to Present Inaugural Clean Energy Institute Lecture

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Please join the Clean Energy Institute as Professor Mildred Dresselhaus presents its inaugural interdisciplinary seminar:


Perspectives on Our Energy Future

Providing clean energy to the inhabitants of our planet is a major challenge to future generations. This talk will give my perspectives on this challenge in general terms and on how nanoscience and new nano-materials may contribute to addressing this challenge.

Thursday, November 7
4:00 PM 5:00 PM HUB Lyceum
Reception and drinks to follow

Presented by

Mildred Dresselhaus, PhD
Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Emerita
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Mildred Dresselhaus is currently one of twenty-three Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Physics. Read More

New UW-Pacific NW National Lab computing-research institute holds first public workshop | UW News

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  • Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing Day
  • Wednesday, Oct. 30, 9 a.m. 5 p.m.
  • Husky Union Building, room 145
  • Free; registration required

 

New UW-Pacific NW National Lab computing-research institute holds first public workshop

October 25, 2013
Michelle Ma

The University of Washington and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on Oct. 30 will hold their first public workshop spearheaded by the institute they formed last January to foster collaborative computing research.

Based at the UW, the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing"˜s first public event will feature speakers from the two institutions and industry, as well as breakout sessions that explore various aspects of science and engineering technologies. Read More

Clean Energy Institute announces new graduate fellowships for 2014

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The UW Clean Energy Institute (CEI) announces two new graduate fellowship opportunities. The mission of the CEI Fellowship program is to catalyze clean energy research that is related to solar energy conversion (Sun-to-Electricity and Sun-to-Chemicals), electrical energy storage (Electricity-to-Chemicals/Materials/Other), and electrical systems and the grid (Electricity Distribution).

Some specific goals of the program are to:

1. Seed new exploratory research activity that addresses the core CEI mission areas
2. Attract the best new graduate students to work at UW on projects in core CEI mission areas
3. Read More

Seelig/Klavins team develops programming language to build synthetic DNA

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From UW Today: UW engineers invent programming language to build synthetic DNA

 

Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a structured set of instructions to "program" how DNA molecules interact in a test tube or cell.

A team led by the University of Washington has developed a programming language for chemistry that it hopes will streamline efforts to design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars, robots and other devices. Read More

Klavins, Seelig Receive NSF Expeditions in Computing Award

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Georg Seelig

Eric Klavins

MolES faculty Georg Seelig (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering) and Eric Klavins (Electrical Engineering) were awarded $2 million as part of a multi-investigator team investigating "Molecular Programming Architectures, Abstractions, Algorithms and Applications" as part of the National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program. The team, led by by Professor Erik Winfree of the California Institute of Technology, also includes investigators from Harvard University and the University of California at San Francisco. The project explores how to systematically program the behaviors of a wide array of complex information-based molecular systems, from decision-making circuitry and molecular-scale manufacturing to biomedical diagnosis and smart therapeutics in living cells. Read More

Six MolES Faculty Named to State Academy of Sciences

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Six distinguished faculty members from the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute, including its director, Patrick Stayton, were named to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. This group includes:

  • Charles Campbell (Chemistry)
  • David Castner (Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering)
  • Samson Jenekhe (Chemical Engineering)
  • Patrick Stayton (Bioengineering)
  • Minoru Taya (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Paul Yager (Bioengineering)

Membership in the Washington State Academy of Sciences is by invitation and members are selected from academic research, government, and industry, and represent a broad range of scientific, technical, and engineering fields. Read More