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Mon, 01/30/2023 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
HCDE Professor Nadya Peek awarded CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund
Levity Technologies, a project led by UW Electrical & Computer Engineering researchers and HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek, has received a $50k grant from the UW CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund. Levity is revolutionizing sample mixing in biology labs with robotics, improving yields and accuracy.
Sat, 01/28/2023 | UW Magazine
Alumna Rachel Barnecut featured in UW Magazine
HCDE alumna Rachel Barnecut (BS ’12, MS ’18) is featured in UW Magazine about her career transition to entrepreneurship. In the interview with fellow alumna Aleenah Ansari (BS '19), Barnecut discusses creating Matcha Magic, a plant-based Matcha bar located in Bellevue.
Wed, 01/11/2023
HCDE Professor Julie Kientz is UW lead on new AI Institute for Children with Speech, Language Disorders
Julie Kientz is the UW lead on the AI Institute for Exceptional Education, a new multi-campus institute that will create artificial intelligence technologies for children with speech and language processing challenges. Collaborating with Kientz at UW is Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Mari Ostendorf.
Fri, 12/02/2022
Improving trust in COVID vaccines with research summaries
A UW research team led by HCDE PhD student Spencer Williams is working with the public to design research summaries that improve awareness and trust in COVID vaccine safety research.
Thu, 12/01/2022
HCDE researchers studying equitable automated speech recognition among African American English speakers
HCDE researchers Jay Cunningham, Daniela Rosner, and Julie Kientz have received a grant from Google Research to develop equitable, community-collaborative design methods to mitigate racial disparities in automated speech recognition technologies.
Mon, 11/14/2022
In Design Jam for Civics, HCDE students innovate for small businesses
Human Centered Design & Engineering students and community partners came together for an autumn quarter design jam to address the question: how might we solidify the presence of small retail stores in our cities?
Fri, 11/04/2022
HCDE researchers Tricia Aung, Sean Munson developing pilot HCD hub to innovate nutrition solutions in Tanzania
A new grant from the University of Washington's Population Health Initiative supports HCDE PhD student Tricia Aung and Associate Professor Sean Munson in developing a pilot human-centered design hub within the Government of Tanzania that will be equipped to innovate solutions to nutrition issues.
Thu, 10/20/2022
Former WA Governor Gregoire recognizes the Virtual Coordination Center project at Mobility Innovation Center’s Ready to Roll event
On October 13, 2022, HCDE Professor and Chair Julie Kientz and former Washington State Governor and Challenge Seattle CEO Christine Gregoire spoke at an event hosted by CoMotion’s Mobility Innovation Center to celebrate the Virtual Coordination Center for Multimodal Corridor Management project.
Mon, 10/10/2022
HCDE Professor Nadya Peek receives NSF grant to develop open-source hardware for laboratory automation
The grant is part of the National Science Foundation's new Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, designed to support the creation of sustainable, high-impact, open-source ecosystems. Collaborating with Peek is Lilo Pozzo, a professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering.
Thu, 10/06/2022
HCDE Professors Rosner and Kientz receive NSF grant to explore equitable childcare worker technologies
The three year, $1.8 million award is part of an investment by the National Science Foundation in research projects designed to increase opportunities for US workers and generate positive societal and economic impacts at the local and national level.