UW News
Uri Shumlak
January 6, 2020
Honors for three faculty in aeronautics and astronautics
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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
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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
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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.