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Leaders from Washington higher education institutions met with national policymakers April 4 to discuss opportunities provided by the CHIPS and Science Act. U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene and National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan visited the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campus to talk about the legislation, which provides more than $100 billion to fund scientific research and workforce training. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and other Washington colleges and universities are poised to receive funds from the CHIPS and Science Act to invest in chip…

Scientists at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ are pursuing multiple quantum research projects spanning from creating materials with never-before-seen physical properties to studying the “quantum bitsâ€� — or qubits (pronounced “kyu-bits”) — that make quantum computing possible. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News sat down with Professor Kai-Mei Fu, one of the leaders in quantum research on campus, to talk about the potential of quantum R&D, and why it’s so important.

The National Science Foundation has announced it will fund a new endeavor to bring atomic-level precision to the devices and technologies that underpin much of modern life, and will transform fields like information technology in the decades to come. The five-year, $25 million Science and Technology Center grant will found the Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand — or IMOD — a collaboration of scientists and engineers at 11 universities led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to establish a NSF Research Traineeship at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ for graduate students in quantum information science and technology. The new traineeship — known as Accelerating Quantum-Enabled Technologies, or AQET — will make the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ one of just “a handfulâ€� of universities with a formal, interdisciplinary QIST curriculum.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Microsoft Quantum announced this week that they have joined forces in a new coalition, the Northwest Quantum Nexus, to bring about a revolution in quantum research and technology.