Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Hack for Social Good hackathon brought 200 students from local high schools and middle schools to the Intellectual House at the University of Washington on April 5 for a day of creative and collaborative problem-solving. Led by...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
During a trip to Eritrea, Nobel Menghis noticed the lack of access to technology in his home country. Fueled by a desire to make technology more accessible, Menghis has dedicated his education and career to achieving this...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
As an embedded researcher in the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, Karen Fisher wanted to know about the effects of domicide and the invisible lives of women.Those living in the camp are conservative Sunni Muslim, and it’s rare to...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
As an iSchool doctoral candidate, Nick Logler spent weeks rummaging through trash piles on the side of the road, ferreting around in thrift stores, and browsing platforms like Craigslist. Discarded desktop printers were his target, and he...
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Monday, March 11, 2024
With the launch of the iStartup Lab, new entrepreneurship courses available to students, and opportunities to develop a startup idea from the hackathon stage to a full-fledged company, now is a rewarding time to be an entrepreneur at...
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Monday, March 11, 2024
As an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, María Fernanda (Fer) Palomares Carranco found it challenging to do the type of research that would support her graduate school goals. The libraries and catalogs were difficult to...
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