June 11, 2013 | UW Today

PhD Student Jeremiah Wanders Featured in UW Today

New tasks become as simple as waving a hand with brain-computer interfaces
Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control robotic limbs simply by thinking about how to execute those actions. This technology could improve communication and daily life for a person who is paralyzed or has lost the ability to speak from a stroke or neurodegenerative disease.

June 7, 2013 | SPIE

Dr. Ruikang Wang elected SPIE Fellow

UW Bioengineering professor Dr. Ruikang (Ricky) Wang has been elected as a SPIE Fellow. Dr. Wang, who is known for investigating the properties of light, biotissue, and their interactions and pioneering biomedical optical imaging applications, is one of 69 fellows elected this year to SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.