April 2017

The first in a planned series of University of Washington Bothell community hackathons aims to make improvements at the garden sprouting on campus between the north parking garage and the sports fields. The Garden Innovation Challenge on April 21 is the work of the Hackathon Series Committee, a partnership of seven student clubs and organizations.

A team of University of Washington Bothell students is competing in the national finals for the Imagine Cup, the prestigious Microsoft software contest. Computing software systems seniors Darong Leng, Miyu Kimura and Shen Li are creating an “ultra-reality space” that allows people from different locations to interact using multiple devices.

The first time Gautam Kumar submitted a cybersecurity paper to a conference, it “failed spectacularly." But with assistance from the University of Washington Bothell Writing and Communications Center, Kumar succeeded in having the paper accepted at a conference in Portugal where he presented his work.

The debut of the new campus community garden will be featured at this year’s Earth Week, April 15-21, at the University of Washington Bothell. 

New York comic book artist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez told a University of Washington Bothell audience how he created "La Borinquena," a superhero with a costume in the red, white and blue colors of the Puerto Rico flag. And a cape, because superheroes have capes.