A team of four UW professors including Payman Arabshahi won the award to create a cross-disciplinary, web-based program that will provide mentoring and a support network for innovation readiness for all UW students.

The AMP shines new light on a complex problem: monitoring the environment around marine energy conversion sites. Many engineering challenges were solved to put the required sensors in proximity to tidal and wave energy converters.

The program's field season was a great success, resulting in a detailed picture of the ocean, atmosphere, and ice across the Beaufort Sea — from the fully frozen period in March to melt, breakup and right through refreezing in early autumn.

The joint venture between OceanGate and APL-UW to produce a manned submersible capable of reaching depths few others can has entered the next exciting phase: sea trials.

CIMU researchers are investigating a noninvasive method to fragment kidney stones using ultrasound pulses rather than shock waves. Consecutive acoustic cycles accumulate and concentrate energy within the stone. The technique can be 'tuned' to create small fragments, potentially improving the success rate of lithotripsy procedures.