UW News

Uri Shumlak


January 6, 2020

Honors for three faculty in aeronautics and astronautics

statue of George Washington on UW campus

Three faculty members in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics have received awards for their work.


June 2, 2015

UW researchers scaling up fusion hopes with DOE grant

UW researchers are scaling up a novel plasma confinement device with a DOE grant, in hopes of producing a self-sustaining reaction to create fusion energy.


June 28, 2012

Plasma startup creates high-energy light to make smaller microchips

In one of the twists of scientific discovery, a UW duo working on fusion energy — harnessing the energy-generating mechanism of the sun — may have found a way to etch the next generation of microchips.