Engage and Enable Blog

The aim of this blog is to show what’s happening at the Center for Neurotechnology among its faculty, student and staff members. To learn more about the center and its work, visit our Feature Stories page.

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CSNE has recently formed partnerships with OpenBCI, NeuroRecovery Tech, MultiModal Health and LeafLabs LLC. These are four, leading-edge companies in the areas of human-computer interface technologies, spinal cord neuromodulation, virtual rehabilitation and neural-computer processing.

Student participating in CSNE's exhibit at the Brain Awareness Open HouseApproximately 800 local elementary and middle-school students attended the Brain Awareness Week Open House, which was held on March 17, 2016 and was supported by the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), along with other sponsors. The event was held in the Husky Union Building, located on the University of Washington's Seattle Campus.

This summer I had the privilege of participating in the 10-week CSNE Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program as a UW Fellow. I joined 10 other “REUs” from around the country and eight Seattle-area high school students who were participating in the CSNE’s Young Scholars Program. Like me, they were all excited about getting involved in neural engineering research.

Over the course of my research experience project, I learned some C++ programming language, created customized 3D-printed parts, and met many interesting and enthusiastic people.

For middle and high school teachers, summers are a time to recharge after a long school year. It can be a rare chance to travel or spend quality time with friends and family.

But for the past four years, a small group of Seattle-area educators have elected to spend their summers on the UW Seattle campus, conducting engineering research in a CSNE-affiliated lab and developing a curriculum unit to bring the principles of neural engineering to their students.

Mt. RainierWhen Josh Hancock moved to Seattle eight years ago, he envisioned a life outdoors, full of climbing, skiing, and hiking.

Though he managed to live out that dream for seven years exploring the Pacific Northwest, his life changed dramatically on December 3, 2014, when an injury left him without motor control or sensory function below his waist.

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