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Marco Salviato in front of composites equipment

Sat, 01/25/2025 | The Seattle Times

Spokane facility gets $48M to boost thermoplastic research for planes

A&A professor's research on lightweight aircraft materials helps secure major CHIPS Act funding for Spokane facility.

Bhuvana Srinivasan headshot

Thu, 01/16/2025

Professor Srinivasan receives nation's highest early-career scientific honor

Professor Bhuvana Srinivasan receives the Presidential Early Career Award for plasma physics research.

Mohammad Al-Jarrah and Spencer Kraisler at the CDC 2024 Milano

Mon, 01/13/2025

A&A takes top student awards at major controls conference

Two doctoral students capture Outstanding Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 CDC conference in Milan.

Inmates in orange prison attire looking at instructors.

Sat, 12/28/2024 | CNN

Inmates are learning to code in prison. Jobs may be hard to come by

CNN spotlights Professor Nisser's 'Brave Behind Bars' program bringing coding education to correctional facilities.

Collage of three headshots

Fri, 12/13/2024

Recent Ph.D. graduates secure faculty positions at leading institutions

Three recent Ph.D. graduates from A&A’s Controls area secure assistant professor positions at leading aerospace institutions.

Aerodynamic aircraft model with colored smoke trails illustrating airflow patterns

Mon, 12/09/2024

The fluid mechanics anomaly we can’t dismiss anymore

Sounding the alarm on asymmetric flows, long dismissed as experimental errors, as critical to predict for flight safety.

Daniel Alex headshot

Wed, 12/04/2024

Breaking through plasma's chaos for stellar science and fusion energy

With NSF support, Daniel Alex's complex simulations shed light on plasma instabilities that could unlock clean fusion energy.

Headshot of Uri Shumlak

Tue, 11/12/2024 | GeekWire

Uncommon Thinkers: Zap's Uri Shumlak wrestles with fusion energy in pursuit of carbon-free power

GeekWire recognizes Professor Uri Shumlak for his work to advance fusion energy.

International Space Station

Mon, 11/04/2024 | UW News

NASA funds effort to study effects of the space environment on living organisms

A&A chair Morgansen to lead new $2.5M NASA space biology consortium uniting UW, WSU and PNNL researchers.

Mohammad Al-Jarrah headshot

Tue, 10/22/2024

Combining machine learning with a mathematical theory to enhance autonomy

PhD student combines machine learning and optimal transport theory to enhance uncertainty management in autonomous systems.