News from the School of STEM
Category: Community Partners
Investing in diverse futures: Bothell students and faculty find community at the 2024 Women in Cybersecurity conference
As a leader in cybersecurity research and education, the University of Washington Bothell School of STEM Division of Computing & Software Systems (CSS) sponsored three students and one faculty member to attend the 2024 Women in Cybersecurity conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
June 27, 2024
Spring Quarterly Crossroads
The Quarterly Crossroads is a quarterly newsletter of leadership updates, school highlights, student stories, news and upcoming events for the School of STEM.
June 4, 2024
Boeing partners with School of STEM to create capstone project
The School of STEM at the University of Washington Bothell has shared several successful collaborations with industry through its engineering capstone program. This year was special however, as for the first time, the School of STEM was honored to have Boeing as one of our industry partners. This year Boeing engineers collaborated with students from...
July 31, 2023
Astronomy Day: Learning through teaching
During Astronomy Day in the University of Washington Bothell’s Commons Hall in May, students from Dr. Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo’s Intro to Astronomy course presented on topics ranging from black holes and the Big Bang Theory to moon phases and the solar system. Every year, Rodríguez Hidalgo’s students organize the event as an opportunity to teach...
June 22, 2023
Recruiting, retaining, and advancing women in cybersecurity — WiCyS 2023
As our lives become increasingly digitalized, cybersecurity has never been more important. The predicted cost of cybercrime is estimated to hit $8 trillion this year and $10.5 trillion by 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. It is vital to have skilled cybersecurity professionals to help keep data and information safe from hackers and other external threats. Demand...
April 27, 2023
Funding for the Center for Biotech Innovation and Training
The University of Washington Bothell School of STEM is thrilled to announce that the upcoming Center for Biotech Innovation and Training (CBIT) has been awarded additional funding from the FY 2022 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.
March 15, 2022
Graduating students showcase CSSE capstone research
Students in the School of STEM shared their research at the autumn 2021 capstone symposium. Read the story in UW Bothell news.
December 28, 2021
NSF grant to research Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Cybersecurity
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity is emerging as an important field. With $300,000 National Science Foundation grant funding, Associate Professor Dr. Brent Lagesse in collaboration with Associate Professor Dr. Colleen Lewis from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will research industry needs, barriers to learning, and determine the best ways to prepare the workforce to apply AI to problems in cybersecurity.
November 22, 2021
Dare to Transform at the Grace Hopper Celebration
Thirteen STEM graduate students and the STEM graduate admission advisor virtually attended the 2021 Grace Hopper Celebration, the largest gathering of women technologists.
November 22, 2021
Meet Keiara Windom, Avanade STEM scholar turned employee
Mathematics major and Avanade Scholar Keiara Windom shares her story with Avanade about how the scholarship supported her as a women in STEM and why she excited to be joining Avanade as business analyst. Read the story on Avanade's blog.
November 22, 2021