Requested:
$54,640
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$54,640
The following is a proposal request to purchase 1-2 additional floating Imaris licenses with maintenance contracts which will facilitate student imaging analysis for 3 years. These licenses will allow undergraduates and graduate students to gain vital analytical skills for their current research and future careers.
Requested:
$22,258
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$22,813
The College of Education supports our College’s student community with an equipment checkout pool. This laptop checkout pool is sustained by repurposing old devices. We are requesting STF funding to replace these aging laptops with current equipment.
Requested:
$10,978
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$10,978
The Husky Robotics Team is a registered student organization of 164 students competing in the Rover Challenge Series, a series of competitions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas with teams from all over the world. Last year, we competed in the University Rover Challenge at Utah’s Mars Desert Research Station and the Canadian International Rover Challenge. To compete, we bring together a team of diverse and motivated students to design, build, and operate an annual mock Mars Rover. Our Mars rovers needs to do everything from pouring fuel into vehicles to searching for life to autonomously finding objectives in an almost mile-wide area. So, our team is divided into subsystems: Arm, Business, Chassis, Electronics, Manufacturing, Software, and Science to cover the competition’s large number of interdisciplinary tasks. Despite having a budget smaller than many other robotics teams, our team was able to place 2nd at our most recent competition after facing teams from Shanghai to Warsaw. However, our team still requires a large amount of manufacturing, electrical, and computer equipment to complete our rovers while effectively and safely collaborating. The equipment we are requesting is critical to our team’s continued success and will affect the operations of all our team’s members.
Requested:
$5,488
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$5,488
The Access Technology Center (ATC) seeks funding to: 1) continue to provide access computer technology for students with disabilities; and 2) update and upgrade dated software and equipment to reflect operating system and hardware improvements that have been performed and are being implemented by Learning Technologies (LT) and the ATC. The systems affected are located in the Mary Gates Hall Access Technology Center, Suzzallo Library, OUGL Learning Commons and satellite workstations in a variety of academic departments. These facilities serve the majority of general use computing needs for the campus and are recognized central locations for computer technology for students with disabilities. On a limited basis and subject to product availability, commonly used access technology is also loaned to departmental labs from the ATC for short-term student needs. Additionally, ATC seeks funding to update equipment used to remediate academic materials for students who are blind, have low vision, or experience other disabilities. This work is performed in collaboration with the Disability Resources for Students office.
Requested:
$54,193
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$54,193
We would like to purchase an Adaptive Focus Control system for the Leica SP8 confocal microscope in the Garvey Imaging Core at UW-South Lake Union. Adaptive Focus Control consists of hardware and software components that maintain the distance relationship between the objective lens and sample—thereby keeping a sample in focus. Stepper motors in the microscope and a photosensor are used to constantly maintain the sample position at a user specified point-of-interest. Adding these components to the microscope will allow us to do very high-resolution live-cell imaging that is currently not possible because of focal drift. It will also enable us to use this microscope for large-field imaging where drift across a large area is currently a problem. Additionally, we would like to purchase image restoration software so that we can use low light levels with live cells and obtain higher resolution images. Many student projects will benefit from these additions. Undergraduate and graduate students have 24/7 access to the Garvey Imaging Core, and the director is available to help students 40 hours a week. The Adaptive Focus Control and Lightning Image Restoration will add new capabilities to our Leica SP8 system that will be well-supported by the Garvey facility and make it a fantastic system for live cell imaging.
Requested:
$17,352
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$18,871
The Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences provides a student computer lab for use by students enrolled in the SPHSC graduate programs to assist them in completing necessary coursework, analysis of patient speech, language and hearing abilities, and therapy and evaluation reports, while maintaining the privacy of patient data obtained in our clinic as a part of their studies.
Requested:
$437,279
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$437,279
LinkedIn Learning helps anyone learn business, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. By combining best-in-class content with LinkedIn’s data and insights into how jobs, industries, organizations and skills evolve over time, institutions and individuals can better identify the skills they need to create new pathways to opportunity. In this proposal, we’re asking the Student Tech Fee Committee to fund access to LinkedIn Learning for all students across the 3 campuses to have unlimited access to the skills content and LinkedIn profile training to increase chances of job placement post education.
Requested:
$23,660
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$23,660
The Malvern Zetasizer NanoZS in the Chemical Engineering department’s shared instrument facility, Bindra Lab, is in need of a high-throughput attachment. The instrument uses a technique called dynamic light scattering to measure the size and size distribution of samples including particle suspensions and emulsions. The Zetasizer’s characterization capabilities are frequently used for research, undergraduate and graduate instruction, and in student startup activities. However, the throughput of the instrument needs to be significantly increased to keep up with demand. We aim to address this by integrating the Malvern NanoSampler accessory, which allows users to perform experiments without changing samples one by one. While the instrument is effective and historically well-maintained, the impact of the machine for student populations is hindered by its single sample capacity. Increasing the throughput of the machine via the Malvern Nanosampler attachment will enhance the machine’s operational capacity thus allowing for greater educational, entrepreneurial, and experimental opportunities in both undergraduate and graduate student populations.
Requested:
$90,126
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$90,126
We request funds to purchase a Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC, also an abbreviation for Differential Scanning Calorimetry) for use by students in Chemistry and other related departments. This instrument will be part of the Mass Spectrometry Facility on the ground floor of Bagley Hall. This DSC offers optimal sensitivity, resolution, temperature range, and ease of use. DSC was first developed in the early 1960’s and has since been widely used for quantification of phase transitions (such as glass transition, crystallization, and melting temperatures), oxidative stability, heat of reaction, purity, and crystallinity in materials ranging from commercial polymers to liquid crystals to pharmaceutical compounds. These instruments work by maintaining both an empty reference cell and a sample cell containing the analyte of interest at the same temperature throughout the course of the heating and/or cooling experiment. When the heat capacity of the sample changes, or the sample releases or absorbs energy, the instrument must apply different amounts of energy to the sample and reference cells to keep them at the same temperature. This differential heat flow is registered by the instrument as a deviation from the baseline heat flow, and subsequent software analysis affords thermodynamic information about the thermal event. DSC is a broadly utilized analytical technique, finding use in commercial polymer manufacturing, semiconductors, the pharmaceutical industry, and food science. Students will be able to leverage practical experience with DSC in a variety of careers.
Requested:
$245,240
Status:
Funded
Awarded:
$245,240
Over the last few years, the STF allocation on Hyak has provided an invaluable resource to students pursuing their computational interests, leading to over 100 student-led publications, presentations at conferences nationwide, and enabling students to get a head-start on their computational careers. The oldest portion of Hyak is reaching its end-of-life and will be retired this year (by June 2020), which houses a portion of the previous STF allocation. In order to keep up with an increasing student demand to use these resources and to provide students with access to modern technologies that they are likely to encounter once graduating, we are seeking to replace the portion of the STF allocation on First-Gen Hyak with cutting-edge resources on the current (Next Gen) Hyak allocation. Funding this proposal will enable students’ computational research and ensure that the University of Washington remains a leader in supercomputing research and training for its students.
Learn about the Student Technology Fee and the proposal process by attending a Workshop led by our staff and receive 1:1 support with your proposal.
Phone: 206-543-2975
Email: stfexec@uw.edu
Office: Husky Union Building 305B
