University of Washington

UW Dental School is Fixing Financial Woes, Overall Deficit Remains a Worry

by Katherine Long, Seattle Times

Over the last year, the University of Washington’s debt-plagued dental school eliminated the equivalent of 34 full-time faculty and staff through layoffs and attrition, tightened expenses and found other ways to save money. Now, its interim dean says, it has turned a financial corner. The school is still losing money — $2 million over the … Read more

A clockwork dentist – Contact lenses will project images directly onto your eyeballs

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All those 3DTVs and virtual reality goggles are soon to be rendered obsolete by contact lenses with built-in LED arrays that can display images on top of your retinas, whether you want them to or not. Researchers at the University of Washington have been working on extremely tiny and semi-transparent LEDs designed to be integrated into contact … Read more