INSPIRING STORIES

To aid recovery, a team of UW engineers and public health scientists is assessing the long-term impact of power loss on the health of rural residents.

The UW team also installed solar/battery nanogrid systems — part of a sustainable clean energy infrastructure that can help buoy public health when power grids fail.

Thanks to scholarship support from the Friends of the UW School of Medicine, she’s now a third-year student in the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) program.

As a doctor, she hopes to help curb the physician shortage that many small towns like hers are facing.

Slightly heavier than a toothpick, RoboFly has its own “brain” that controls its wings — and it’s charged by a tiny circuit board that converts laser energy into electricity.

Because of their size, these tiny robots can take on tasks that larger and more expensive drones can’t, from surveying crop growth to sniffing out gas leaks.