UW astronomers Brett Morris and James Davenport assisted in new 91ΧΤΕΔ on “Tabby’s Star,” named for Louisiana State University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian.
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When “American Sabor” opened at what was then the Experience Music Project a decade ago, its 91ΧΤΕΔ creators saw it as a chance to celebrate the extensive Latino contribution to popular music. It was a product of years of interviews and 91ΧΤΕΔ, and an often challenging exercise in collaboration and presentation. But that was just the beginning for Marisol BerrΓos-Miranda and Shannon Dudley, both ethnomusicologists in the UW School of Music, and Michelle Habell-PallΓ‘n, a professor in…
An essay by Laurie Marhoefer, UW assistant professor of history, has been named the most memorable of the year 2017 by the editors and readers of The Conversation US.
The 91ΧΤΕΔ is ranked No. 7 on Kiplingerβs 300 Best College Values for 2018 among public universities, released Dec. 22.
Now serving its sixth cohort of students, the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship has helped more than 8,400 students attend the stateβs universities and colleges. The UW has the largest number of scholarship recipients β 1,679 across all three campuses β and has seen more than 1,300 scholars graduate.
In all corners of the 91ΧΤΕΔ, staff, faculty and students are working hard to improve the lives of people around the world. This year undoubtedly embodied that passion and drive to serve the public good.
Hereβs a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW talents in the last year or so β and a reminder of some perennial favorites.
Researchers from the 91ΧΤΕΔ, Chapman University and University of Guelph have published new 91ΧΤΕΔ showing how hagfishes survive an initial attack from predators before they release large volumes of slime to defend themselves.
A new NSF-funded project will use findings in the Mekong River basin as an example of how three critical issues β feeding people, generating energy and maintaining functioning ecosystems β can be addressed thoughtfully and progressively in the developing world.
New faculty member Shuyi Chen answers some questions about hurricane science, hurricane forecasting and the 2017 storm season.
Bloomberg News columnist Noah Smith has listed a paper by UW economist Fabio Ghironi as among “must-read” papers and books on economics in the year 2017.
The Anthropocene epoch β the proposed name for this time of significant human effect on the planet and its systems β represents a new context in which to study literature. A new book of essays co-edited by Jesse Oak Taylor, UW associate professor of English, argues that literary studies, in turn, also can help us better understand the Anthropocene.
Alongside the political polarization that has permeated seemingly every issue in American life, there is a similar dichotomy in religion.On one side are those who suggest religion is dying, that’s it’s irrelevant, a force for ill and oppression, explains 91ΧΤΕΔ sociology professor Steve Pfaff. On the other are those who say religion is under attack, that the quest for freedom and diversity has sullied the culture and undermined the integrity of faith. And into this debate Pfaff decided…
Kim Nasmyth, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Oxford and former postdoctoral 91ΧΤΕΔer at the 91ΧΤΕΔ, is one of five recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Nasmyth and other prize recipients were honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation at a ceremony December 3 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
Three 91ΧΤΕΔ astrobiologists will discuss their 91ΧΤΕΔ and introduce the new 3-D IMAX movie “The Search for Life in Space” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, in the PACCAR Theater of the Pacific Science Center.
Ana GΓ³mez-Bravo created a class about Spanish food and culture a few years ago as a way to teach the language, but found no appropriate textbook for the material β so she wrote one herself. Her book “Comida y cultura en el mundo hispΓ‘nico” β “Food and Culture in the Hispanic World” β was published in October by Equinox Publishing.
The labor of India’s lower castes β in areas such as agriculture, transportation, construction and the sex trade β occupies about 90 percent of the country’s workforce. Many of these urban jobs draw workers from rural villages, people who struggle to make a living not only for themselves, but also for the relatives they’ve left behind. But what of the day-to-day experiences, the families, the hopes and goals of these millions of laborers? A workshop Dec. 1 and 2 at…
A team of 91ΧΤΕΔ students and faculty has won Amazonβs inaugural Alexa Prize, a university competition designed to produce an artificial intelligence agent capable of coherent and sustained conversation with humans.
Two faculty members in the 91ΧΤΕΔ College of Engineering have been elected as 2018 fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Tom Furness, professor of industrial and systems engineering, was honored for βleadership in virtual and augmented realityβ and Siddhartha βSiddβ Srinivasa, professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, was recognized for βcontributions to robotic manipulation and human-robot interaction.β
Edwina Uehara, dean of the 91ΧΤΕΔ School of Social Work, and social work professor Karen Fredriksen Goldsen have been named fellows of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The two are among 14 new fellows to be inducted by the organization, which honors scholarship, leadership and high-impact work in the field. Uehara, dean since 2006 and the inaugural holder of the Ballmer Endowed Deanship in Social Work, was named an academy honorary fellow earlier this…
Picture yourself with a friend in a crowded restaurant. The din of other diners, the clattering of dishes, the muffled notes of background music, the voice of your friend, not to mention your own β all compete for your brain’s attention. For many people, the brain can automatically distinguish the noises, identifying the sources and recognizing what they “say” and mean thanks to, among other features of sound, pitch. But for someone who wears a cochlear implant, a…
The CleanTech Alliance has presented the 91ΧΤΕΔ with the organization’s 2017 CleanTech Achievement Award. The honor recognizes the UW’s dedication to 91ΧΤΕΔ and development of transformative clean energy technologies, facilities, pipelines for startups and industry partnerships. The award was announced on Nov. 8 at the annual meeting and 10th anniversary of the CleanTech Alliance, a Seattle-based consortium of more than 300 businesses and interest groups across six U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The organization cited the UW’s…
Two 91ΧΤΕΔ engineering students were selected by Forbes magazine for its list of the top 30 people in the world under age 30 working in energy.
Three federal grants announced this week will provide total funding of $1.1 million to Washington Sea Grant, based at the 91ΧΤΕΔβs College of the Environment, for 91ΧΤΕΔ that will sustainably further shellfish and finfish aquaculture in the state
Frances McCue, a senior lecturer in the UW Department of English, has a new book of poetry out, “Timber Curtain,” published by Seattle’s Chin Music Press.
UW Libraries Special Collections’ new exhibit, “All Over the Map: From Cartographs to (C)artifacts” — organized by UW Book Arts and Rare Book Curator Sandra Kroupa — is on display in Allen Library until Jan. 31, 2018.
The 91ΧΤΕΔ is No. 25 in the world β No. XX among U.S. public institutions β according to a new list released Monday by the Center for World University Rankings.
Before a border wall became a budget bargaining chip, before the presidential pardon of a controversial sheriff and before federal policies were announced on social media, there was Arizona Senate Bill 1070, the βshow me your papersβ law. And of course, there was Twitter. To RenΓ© D. Flores, an assistant professor of sociology at the 91ΧΤΕΔ, Twitter is a trove of insight into peopleβs beliefs and their willingness to express them. By analyzing tweets in the months…
For the first time, scientists have detected gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars.
Paul Bodin, a UW seismologist and manager of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, has been named interim director of the network that monitors earthquakes and volcanoes in Washington and Oregon.
Three 91ΧΤΕΔ faculty members are among those honored with an NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research grant, which fund exceptionally creative scientists proposing to use highly innovative approaches to tackle major challenges in biomedical 91ΧΤΕΔ.
The eighth annual Northwest Climate Conference will take place in Tacoma, and begins with a free public discussion featuring UW experts on Monday evening.
It is an oft-repeated fear, particularly among parents: that discussing an undesirable behavior, or even an illegal or dangerous one, may encourage kids to try it. But when it comes to asking pre-teens about alcohol, drug and tobacco use, a 91ΧΤΕΔ-led study finds no evidence that children will, as a consequence of being asked about it, use the substance in question. The study by the UW Social Development Research Group, published in the October issue of…
Cities and counties concerned about immigrant rights should closely examine law enforcement’s collaboration with federal immigration authorities β and the role a for-profit company has in drafting language used in many law enforcement policy manuals β according to a new report from the UW’s Center for Human Rights.
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall β an alumnus of the 91ΧΤΕΔ β along with Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm,” according to an announcement Monday morning.
Lisa Zurk, a UW aluma in electrical engineering, professor at Portland State University and program manager at DARPA, will become the eighth director of the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory.
Researchers from the 91ΧΤΕΔ and seven other institutions are working together to restore a Puerto Rican 91ΧΤΕΔ station and its nearby community following the damage wrought last week by Hurricane Maria. The 91ΧΤΕΔ station known as Monkey Island is located on Cayo Santiago, off the southeast coast of mainland Puerto Rico, and is home to more than 1,000 rhesus monkeys. A site of scientific 91ΧΤΕΔ since the 1930s, Monkey Island is staffed year-round by dozens of…
Faculty members in the UW’s Jackson School of International Studies will explore the ongoing impact of the Trump presidency in weekly lectures each Monday through fall quarter.
91ΧΤΕΔ chemistry professor Sarah Keller, whose work and teaching have been recognized internationally, will be the featured speaker at the university’s 34th annual Freshman Convocation, which begins at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, in the Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
The National Science Foundation is funding the largest marine seismic-monitoring effort yet along the Alaska Peninsula, a region with frequent and diverse earthquake and volcanic activity. Involving aircraft and ships, the new Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment will be led by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, with partners at the 91ΧΤΕΔ and seven other 91ΧΤΕΔ institutions. “This effort will really change the information we have at our disposal for understanding the seismic properties of subduction zones,” said…