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MolES Faculty Earn 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award

March 30, 2016

Two MolES faculty members are being honored as 2016 Awards of Excellence winners, both for their achievements in teaching. Cole Deforest, assistant professor, chemical engineering and Wendy Thomas, associate professor, bioengineering will be honored June 9, 2016 at a ceremony on campus. The Distinguished Teaching Award is given annually to seven [...]

Nature Biotechnology’s ‘greatest hits’ includes MolES faculty

March 29, 2016

Professor Shaoyi Jiang’s research focuses on helping the body accept medical devices and implants that it naturally wants to reject. His 2013 paper on using zwitterionic hydrogels to eliminate the foreign body response to implants was selected as one of eight major hits in 20 years of Nature Biotechnology biomedical research. The March 2016 issue [...]

Pat Stayton accepts appointment extension as MolES Director

January 6, 2016

Pat Stayton, Director of the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute (MoIES) and Distinguished Career Professor of Bioengineering, will remain MolES Director for an additional five years. [...]

UW-NIMS agreement launches new biomaterials collaboration

December 11, 2015

December 4, 2015 The Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institutes celebrates signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) and the University of Washington (UW) The MolES Institute welcomed MANA Researcher Dr. Mitsuhiro Ebara, a former UW postdoctoral fellow in Bioengineering, for a signing celebration on December 4, followed [...]

Light-based chemistry to manipulate stem cells

September 28, 2015

Professor Cole DeForest is researching new ways to coerce stem cells into transforming into other cell types. Ultimately, his research could make huge impacts in medicine by engineering organs and tissues to combat heart disease. DeForest is an assistant professor of chemical engineering and a member of the Molecular Engineering & Sciences institute faculty. Read more at [...]

UW Nanofab, molecular analysis labs win $4.5 million NSF grant

September 20, 2015

The University of Washington and Oregon State University have won a $4.5 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to advance nanoscale science, engineering and technology research in the Pacific Northwest and support a new network of user sites across the country. The regional partnership was selected as one of 16 sites for a [...]

Washington Nanofabrication Facility to receive $37M to expand

August 3, 2015

The Washington Nanofabrication Facility is home to more than 140 scientists and engineers every month and is used by researchers and businesses. It is the closest and most affordable facility for startups in the region that need access to the expensive machines to build products [...]

Interdisciplinary MolES team programs yeast cells to say "˜Hello'!

July 1, 2015

A team of University of Washington researchers has engineered yeast cells that can "talk" to one another, using a versatile plant hormone called auxin. [...]

Lara Gamble named fellow of AVS

June 9, 2015

Professor Lara Gamble has been named a fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS). [...]

Nanotech/Molecular Engineering Students Win Biz Plan Competition

May 27, 2015

Congratulations to Charlie Corredor and Renuka Ramanathan for their success in the 2015 UW Business Plan Competition. Each was a member of a team that won a seed money for their start-up businesses. Both Charlie and Renuka are Ph.D. candidates in the dual title degree in Nanotechnology & Molecular Engineering offer through the MolES Institute. [...]

VIDEO: MolES Featured at MRS Spring Meeting

April 8, 2015

Faculty and student research at the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute was featured at a video broadcast on-site at the Material Research Society Spring Meeting and Exhibit April 6- 10. Learn about our interdisciplinary approach to research and education. [...]

MolES researchers build energy efficient nanolaser

March 25, 2015

University of Washington scientists have built a new nanometer-sized laser "” using the thinnest semiconductor available today "” that is energy efficient, easy to build and compatible with existing electronics. The ultra-thin semiconductor is about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. [...]

MolES Matching Funds for New Analytical Biopharmacy Users

March 23, 2015

The University of Washington Molecular Engineering Sciences Institute (MolES) announces the availability of matching funds for new users of the Analytical Biopharmacy Core (ABC). In order to showcase ABC services to the local academic and biotech communities, the Institute is offering up to $5,000 in matching funds to new user groups and companies. The ABC provides analysis by [...]

Daniel Gamelin wins 2015 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award

March 8, 2015

The American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry has announced Professor Daniel Gamelin as the winner of the third Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award. Dr. Gamelin was nominated by his peers for his broad, unique, and outstanding sustained contribution to the development of inorganic nanoscience. Learn more here. [...]

Mary Gates Research Fellows Get Intro to Molecular Engineering

March 2, 2015

Early introduction to research can help students determine their passion and jump start careers. One of the benefits of the MolES Institute's Nanoscience and Molecular Engineering (NME) degree program for undergraduates is the opportunity to integrate classroom training with laboratory research experience early in [...]

NIH Approves Additional Funding for NESAC/BIO

January 2, 2015

The National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems (NESAC/BIO) has received an additional five years of funding from the National Institutes of Health. [...]

PolyDrop’s Sky-high Solution

December 9, 2014

UW Chemical Engineering alum Volha Hrechka and her start up company is featured on the UW website home page the week of December 8, 2014. Hrechka's start up company PolyDrop is the result of her chemical engineering capstone project under the guidence of MolES faculty member Lilio Pozzo. [...]

David Castner Honored by UK Surface Analysis Forum

November 20, 2014

MolES faculty member and NESAC/BIO Director David Castner was recently awarded the 2014 RiviÃ¨re Prize from the UK Surface Analysis Forum. This award is presented to researchers whose work has had a major impact on other researchers in the field of surface analysis. In naming Castner the 2014 recipient, the UK Surface Analysis Forum cited [...]

Think Small for Big Impact: Molecular Engineering Ph.D.

November 18, 2014

Ph.D. Program in Molecular Engineering Offers Collaborative Environment Designed For Impact The University of Washington introduced a new graduate program in an emerging field of molecular science. Starting in fall of 2014, pioneering students began a path of study that nurtures and develops their professional identities as versatile thinkers in Molecular Engineering, while they earning [...]

MolES Faculty Honored with UW Innovation Awards

September 7, 2014

Two faculty members of the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute have received Innovation Awards, recently announced by the Office of the President. The awards honor mid-career researchers who are engaged in the medical, natural, social and engineering sciences. They also recognize faculty who foster new creative ways to foster student learning and active engagement. Among the [...]