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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is doubling down on his efforts to better understand the human brain, announcing plans today to donate $300 million to the Allen Insitute of Brain Science. That brings total fundraising in the 9-year-old non-profit scientific organization to $500 million, one of the largest philanthropic commitments ever to fund neuroscience. In a… Read More…
Washington STEM, a nonprofit that supports science, technology, engineering, and math education across the state, has awarded 14 grants to educators in Washington. The one-year investments are used to encourage teachers to pilot new ideas that could be used to bolster STEM education. “My female students use to think that building robots was just for boys,” said, Dave… Read More…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen makes the case for broader sharing of scientific data — an “open science” model – in a newly published opinion piece (subscription required) in the Wall Street Journal, drawing from the experiences of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. Allen explains that the institute initially considered charging for access to its online… Read More…
University of Washington electrical engineering researchers say they have successfully tested a single-pixel, wirelessly powered display on a contact lens on live rabbits without side effects. The research, detailed today in a paper in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, is a key milestone in their long-term effort to let humans to see information displayed Terminator-style… Read More…
The University of Washington may be losing on the gridiron. But get the UW’s tops geeks in the lab, and there’s no stopping them from rolling over the competition. A team of 23 UW undergrads — spanning departments in biochemistry, microbiology, bioengineering, materials science and computer science – just took home the top honor in the… Read More…
Addressing the Malaria Forum in downtown Seattle this morning, Bill Gates sounded at times like he was back in the tech business, trying to get a reluctant team to think long-term and shoot for an ambitious target — using charts and statistical models to make his case. But Gates never encountered a challenge this big… Read More…
Seattle is the center of the battle against malaria this week, as scientists and global health leaders descend on the region for the second Malaria Forum, organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The meeting comes four years after the first Malaria Forum, where the Gateses issued a challenge to not just control the… Read More…
Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, a Harvard University professor, is on a quest to figure out how the universe works, at the most fundamental level, using math and science as her tool. Her work with fellow physicist Raman Sundrum has already led to one of the best-known theories in the field. Her new book, Knocking on Heaven’s… Read More…
Naveen Jain has spent the bulk of his entrepreneurial career developing Internet search technologies, from the early days at InfoSpace to the founding of online background check service Intelius. But Jain is now putting his time (and money) into very different pursuits, including space travel and digital health. In fact, Jain is now promoting the “Digital… Read More…
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