News
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fri, 03/25/2022 | Clean Energy Institute
Microgrids for energy sovereignty
Alumna Stephanie Bostwick aims to bring clean energy to her classroom at Northwest Indian College and to the Lummi Nation.
Mon, 03/21/2022 | GeekWire
Blue Origin gives ‘SNL’ comedian Pete Davidson’s suborbital seat to the spaceship’s chief architect
Gary Lai (A&A '99), Blue Origin's chief architect for the New Shepard launch system, gets a ticket to space.
Wed, 03/16/2022 | GeekWire
Wave Motion wins $1.3M award to work on prototype jet-gun launcher for U.S. Navy
A start-up founded by three A&A alumni won $1.3M from the U.S. Navy to develop a barrel-less space launcher technology.
Tue, 03/01/2022
NSF invests in UW’s plasma modeling
The National Science Foundation invests in our labs to advance plasma modeling for propulsion and cleaner energy.