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Zap Energy's Z-Pinch

Wed, 06/22/2022 | GeekWire

More funding for fusion: Seattle startup lands $160M and reveals technology breakthrough

GeekWire quotes A&A's Chris Hansen about the breakthrough of Uri Shumlak's spinoff company.

Zap Energy's executive team

Wed, 06/22/2022 | New York Times

A Big Step Toward Fusion Energy Is Hailed by a Seattle Start-Up

Uri Shumlak's Zap Energy hit a key milestone, putting the company close to reaching the energy break-even point.

Reiner Decher

Wed, 06/22/2022

Reiner Decher is writing about the mechanics and history of aerospace for the masses

A&A Professor Emeritus Reiner Decher is writing about the mechanics and history of aerospace for the curious.
 

Daniel Crews headshot

Wed, 06/22/2022

Paper by Daniel Crews wins IEEE first place

Crews’s paper on the validity of quasilinear theory wins best student paper at IEEE Conference

Howard Hu

Wed, 06/01/2022 | UW Magazine

From 'Star Wars' to the stars

NASA is going back tot he moon and planning to land humans on Mars, thanks in part to Orion manager Howard Hu ('91, '94)

Gary Lai and his crewmates

Sun, 05/29/2022 | UW Magazine

Gary Lai, '99, helps lead Blue Origin into space

Gary Lai was one of the first 20 employees of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin aerospace company. In March, he joined five other passengers for the company's fourth manned suborbital space flight.

Catherine and Mike Taniguchi

Tue, 05/24/2022

Mike Taniguchi (‘71) is the 2022 A&A Distinguished Alum

Mike Taniguchi, expert in liquid rocket propulsion, is the 2022 Distinguished Alum.
 

Nanobubbles

Mon, 04/11/2022

NSF supports our research into why nanofoams are full of surprises

NSF supports an A&A and ME collaborative investigation of a novel new material.
 

Carter Vu and his colleagues

Thu, 03/31/2022 | UW Foster Blog

Environmental Innovation Challenge rewards student ventures

A&A's Carter Vu earned the Grand Prize in the 2022 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge for a plastic recycling process.

UW campus and US News logo

Mon, 03/28/2022 | UW News

UW graduate and professional disciplines again place high in US News’ best graduate school rankings

A&A's graduate program ranks 17th in aerospace engineering, according to U.S. News & World Report.