Four Pacific Northwest public-private partnerships have won support from the National Science Foundation through a $43 million nationwide program to promote regional technology innovations. The NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines program… Read More
Seattle University landed $1.5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to support low-income students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) programs. The NSF dollars will allow the university… Read More
— DefinedCrowd founder and CEO Daniela Braga and Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni are part of the newly formed National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force. The task… Read More
The University of Washington is receiving a large chunk of a massive new grant from the National Science Foundation to build and deploy robotic ocean-monitoring floats to be distributed around… Read More
A-Alpha Bio, a Seattle venture that began at the University of Washington, has won a $620,472 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system that identifies molecules capable… Read More
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is playing a leading role in focusing the power of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and other high-tech tools on the fight… Read More
Update for 4:25 p.m. PT June 23: As expected, Sethuraman Panchanathan, executive vice president and chief research and innovation officer at Arizona State University, was confirmed by the Senate as… Read More
The National Science Foundation and Boeing say they’ve forged a $21 million partnership to accelerate skill development and increase diversity in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, known… Read More
The 1,000-foot Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, made famous by such movies as “Contact” and the James Bond thriller “Goldeneye,” will be under new management. Today the National Science… Read More
This isn’t your parents’ version of an encyclopedia full of pictures of animals. Researchers at institutions across the country, including the University of Washington, are going high-tech in an effort… Read More
Scientists are gearing up to gather data from the solar eclipse on Aug. 21, but the most crucial observations can be made during only two minutes of totality — unless… Read More
A big key to recovering from a stroke, spinal cord injury, burn or other upper-extremity trauma is the ability to continue the prescribed physical therapy consistently for many months at home. It’s a critical window… Read More