A featured article in Wired Magazine covers Washington State Algebra Challenge.

Foldit receives the Dr. Frank H. Netter Award for Special Contributions to Medical Education.

KUOW airs a 5 minute piece on the Washington State Algebra Challenge's that showed that over 90% of elementary school students can master key algebra concepts after 1.5 hours.

Front page of Seattle times reports on exciting outcomes of the Washington State Algebra Challenge.

Foldit receives honorable mention for Technical Excellence at the 15th Annual IGF Awards.

Interview for NPR Science segment on scientific-discovery games.

Foldit wins the 2012 Katerva Award.

An awesome animated documentary on Foldit.

The Scientist profiles our games for learning and scientific-discovery.

An interview and presentaion at NBC News Education Nation Summit hosted by Tamron Hall.

Bloomberg Businessweek Innovator of the week.

Seth Cooper wins the 2011 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (the best PhD in Computer Science) with his thesis "A Framework for Scientific Discovery through Video Games".

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3/7/12

The Center for Game Science and Foldit make the list of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies.

2/3/12

Foldit wins 1st Prize in the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

1/22/12

Foldit players invent a brand new protein 18 times more reactive than previous findings. This marks the third Foldit player authored Nature paper. Followup in The Wall Street Journal.

12/05/11

Foldit in Boston Globe, New York Times and The Economist.

12/01/11

Foldit wins TechFlash Newsmaker award in the "Innovation of the Year" award.

11/07/11

UW team wins the International IGem 2011 grand prize. The team's project used Foldit to redesign a key enzyme for Celiac disease.

11/22/11

Foldit players discover state-of-the art algorithms. Published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

10/28/11

Refraction wins the Prize for the Best Work in the Primary School Category in the 38th NHK Japan Prize, 2011.

9/18/11

A new Nature article: after 15 years of stumping scientists, Foldit players solve a protein structure in just 3 weeks.

9/1/11

Seattle Business Magazine has an extended article on our Center for Game Science.

7/12/11

Three new papers presented at SIGGRAPH 2011.

6/30/11

Three papers presented at Foundations of Digital Games 2011.

4/05/11

Yun-En Liu receives NSF graduate fellowship.

12/13/10

Two papers on game science accepted to CHI 2011. One of them wins a nomination for the Best Paper Award.

11/01/10

Seattle Magazine's Most Influential list of 2010 includes me and David Baker for our impact with scientific-discovery games.

09/16/10

NPR's All Things Considered story on Foldit and the power of game-based democratized science.

08/09/10

New York Times article covers our Foldit Nature paper and our future plans for scientific discovery games.

08/04/10

Nature publishes paper on Foldit produced proteins in August 5 2010 issue. The first nature paper where results are produced by game play, and most certainly the Nature's first paper with over 200,000 authors!

07/28/10

Refraction wins a Grand Prize in the Disney Learning Challenge. Refraction is a game prototype that discovers optimal pathways for learning fractions.

06/10/10

Six games produced in the 10-week Games Capstone class make it big in the wild: two independent reviews (1, 2), second best game of the week, and third best game of the month at Kongregate.com, over $3,000 in awards and earnings in first two weeks, and more than 10 web distribution contracts.

03/29/10

Six papers accepted over the weekend: three conditionally accepted to ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH), and three accepted to Foundations of Digital Games.

02/16/10

Karen Liu (PhD, 2006) wins Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.

02/23/10

New York Times writes a science article about our latest serious game PhotoCity that aims to eventually reconstruct a 3D replica of the entire world.

01/07/10

Brett Allen (PhD, 2005) receives a Technical Achievement Oscar for development of iMocap.

9/20/09

Adrien Treuille (PhD, 2008) wins the TR-35 award, two years after Karen Liu (PhD, 2006) wins the same award.

4/20/09

Foldit feature article in WIRED magazine.

4/6/09

Two papers on character dynamics and control accepted to SIGGRAPH.

3/21/09

Foldit story on PRI.

7/22/08

New York Times article talks about Foldit.

5/8/08

Foldit goes open beta, with an article in The Economist, and a press release.

3/13/08

DraftTrack, developed from our realtime fluids paper, nominated for Sports Emmy (Technical Achievement).

2/08/08

A TV version of the dance symmetry paper in Nature, airs on Valentine's day again.