“Forever chemicals,” named for their ability to persist in water and soil, are a class of molecules that are ever-present in our daily lives, including food packaging and household cleaning products. Because these chemicals don’t break down, they end up in our water and food, and they can lead to health effects, such as cancer …
Destroying “Forever Chemicals” Using Supercritical Water Read More »
“How can we make our operating room safer during the pandemic?” When Dr. James Hecker, an anesthesiologist at UW Medical Center, heard this question from a fellow physician, he thought about the problem not just as a doctor but also as an engineer. Hecker, who has a PhD in chemical and biomedical engineering, knew about …
The 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC), hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, named Aquagga, co-founded by Brian Pinkard of UW Mechanical Engineering (ME) Novosselov Research Group and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), as $15,000 Alaska Airlines Grand Prize winners, extending the ME department’s and specially the Novosselov Research …
NRG’s Aquagga Wins 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge Read More »
Happy International Women’s Day! In honor of all the women across the world, we’d like the share a recent article one of our students, Courtney Otani, wrote for the American Physical Society. Sharing her experience as a woman in engineering, Otani writes about her time attending the 2019 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) and …