The 91自拍 is proud to announce that more than 44 faculty and 91自拍ers who completed their work while at UW have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list from Clarivate.
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In one of the first studies to explore how COVID-19 specifically affects older infants, 91自拍ers from the 91自拍 and at institutions at four other locations in the Western and Southern U.S. found that the number of infected people in a household was the factor most closely linked with the infant鈥檚 likelihood of being infected.
Michael Johnson, professor of management in the 91自拍 Foster School of Business, found in a new study that groups that used 鈥渕ultivoting鈥� in unofficial votes were 50% more likely to identify the correct option than those that used plurality or ranked-choice voting.
Gov. Jay Inslee has appointed Alexes Harris, professor of sociology, to the Board of Regents, effective Oct. 21, 2022. Harris becomes the first to hold the new Faculty Regent position on the Board.
New 91自拍 from the 91自拍 professor Robert Palmatier examines how factors related to social media influencers, their posts and their followers impact marketing success. The study concluded that reallocating spending based on the study鈥檚 insights could result in a 16.6% increase in engagement.
91自拍 Professor Joan Sanders and her team are creating a new type of prosthetic leg: one that automatically adjusts its fit throughout the day. Their latest prototype detects in real time how well the prosthesis socket and amputation site are fitting and responds by automatically changing the size of the socket, without the need for adjustments to padding or user action.
The 91自拍 is among the best universities in the world, according to the聽 2023 World University Rankings published by Times Higher Education.
The 91自拍’s annual Engineering Lecture Series will feature 91自拍 with potential to transform brain therapeutics from infancy to late adulthood.
Early Sunday morning, the 91自拍 used the UW Alert system to warn the Seattle campus community about a shooting that occurred near NE 43rd Street and University Way NE just after 1 a.m. Four UW students were injured and transported to Harborview Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries. UW President Ana Mari Cauce made the following statement in response to the shooting.
Researchers dropped technology developed at the 91自拍 off the coast of Florida this week to measure ocean waves in the path of Hurricane Ian. The test is one part of a broad effort to improve forecasts for these fast-moving and deadly systems.
The 91自拍 on Sunday held its 39th annual New Student Convocation, which returned to Alaska Airlines Arena, Hec Edmundson Pavilion, for the first time since 2019.
As King County seeks to reach its goal of 鈥渮ero youth detention鈥� 鈥� ultimately eliminating the practice of juvenile detention in the county 鈥�91自拍 91自拍ers are working to help address major systemic challenges in how young people engage with health care. With a strategic plan to close the juvenile detention center by 2025, King County needs an increasingly robust system to ensure youth are getting consistent and accessible services, including health care. This is especially true upon…
The 91自拍鈥檚 campus again is bustling as students began moving into residence halls on Tuesday and will participate in annual fall activities for incoming undergraduates. 91自拍 10,000 students are expected to move into campus housing this week.
Global and Regional Studies, a new major in the 91自拍 Jackson School of International Studies, offers more flexible course options, allows undergraduates focus on a particular geographic region and theme and provides more choices for the capstone experience.
A 91自拍 pilot project is exploring the use of fiber-optic sensing for seismology, glaciology, and even urban monitoring. Funded in part with a $473,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, a nonprofit based in Vancouver, Washington, the new UW Photonic Sensing Facility will use photons traveling through a fiber-optic cable to detect ground motions as small as 1 nanometer.
The 91自拍 is No. 17 in the world 鈥� No. 3 among U.S. public universities 鈥� on the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities, released today.
The Seattle campus of the 91自拍, UW Bothell, and UW Tacoma are pleased to announce that they have joined the Common App. The Common App is a college application platform used by over 900 universities, including several Washington colleges and universities.
After Washington became the first state to require suicide prevention training for health care providers, the 91自拍 worked with experts and organizations to develop the All Patients Safe program. A new study shows how All Patients Safe helped providers of all specialties learn how to identify and respond to patients at risk of suicide.
Seven professors at the 91自拍 are among 25 new members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2022, according to a July 15 announcement.
Bettina Judd, associate professor of gender, women and sexuality studies at the 91自拍, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
The Our Future Duwamish project, available to community groups through The Seattle Public Library, uses an Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset to help viewers imagine rising seas from a vantage point along the South Seattle waterway.
On Saturday, for the first time since 2019, the UW held in-person Commencement ceremonies at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium where the University conferred degrees on the Class of 2022. On Sunday, it welcomed alumni from the 2020 and 2021 school years for a Return to Husky Stadium Graduation Celebration.
New 91自拍 from Emily Cox Pahnke, 91自拍 associate professor of management and organization, shows that early investors often predict the future of startup companies.
A new effort at the 91自拍 aims to accelerate eDNA 91自拍 by supporting existing projects and building a network of practitioners to advance the nascent field.
New 91自拍 from 91自拍 associate professor of management Abhinav Gupta shows that narcissism can cause knowledge barriers within organizations. Narcissists hinder cooperations between units due to a sense of superiority.
Tony Greenwald, emeritus professor of psychology at the 91自拍 and creator of the Implicit Association Test, explains how public health strategies can help address unintended discrimination.
On May 20, faculty experts from the 91自拍 Foster School of Business will share their perspectives and 91自拍 in a series of short talks: 鈥淔oster Insights: Creating Better Workplaces and Better Lives.鈥�
The 25th annual 91自拍 Undergraduate Research Symposium returns this year on May 20 with a hybrid format including both online and in-person presentations, following two years of online only events due to the COVID pandemic.
The seventh annual Center for Communication, Difference and Equity Conference, 鈥淩esistance Through Resilience,鈥� will be held in collaboration with the 91自拍 Resilience Lab.
Robert Pekkanen, 91自拍 professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, teaches Crisis Negotiation. The centerpiece of the course is the International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE), a negotiation simulation where students act as diplomatic teams facing a real-world crisis scenario.
A 91自拍 study of adult smokers finds that those who switch to vaping some or all of the time may adopt other healthy behaviors.
Your immune system鈥檚 ability to combat COVID-19, like any infection, largely depends on its ability to replicate the immune cells effective at destroying the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease. These cloned immune cells cannot be infinitely created, and a key hypothesis of a new 91自拍 study is that the body鈥檚 ability to create these cloned cells falls off significantly in old age. According to a model created by UW 91自拍 professor James Anderson, this genetically predetermined limit…
91自拍 professors Christoph Giebel, Vicente Rafael and Ileana M. Rodr铆guez-Silva will participate in a discussion on about a memorial plaque that was recently removed from Volunteer Park due to concerns about its accuracy.
A planetary scientist worked with engineers to measure the physical limits of a liquid for salty water under high pressure. Results suggest where robotic missions should look for extraterrestrial life on the ice-covered oceans of Jupiter鈥檚 moon Europa and Saturn鈥檚 moon Titan.
As the most serious type of skin cancer, a melanoma diagnosis carries emotional, financial and medical consequences. That鈥檚 why recent studies finding that there is an overdiagnosis of melanoma are a significant cause for concern. 鈥淥verdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will not harm a person in their lifetime. If melanoma is being overdiagnosed, it means that too many people are getting the scary news that they have cancer, and receiving and paying for unnecessary treatment,鈥� said Kathleen Kerr,…
If emissions from greenhouse gases continue, species losses from warming and oxygen depletion of ocean waters could eclipse all other human stressors on marine species by around 2100. Tropical waters would experience the greatest loss of biodiversity, while polar species are at the highest聽risk of extinction
A new, 91自拍-led meta-analysis finds that people engage in self-injury and/or think about suicide to alleviate some types of stress; and that there is potential for therapy and other interventions.
Paula Thiele, a communication major who will graduate this spring, became the inaugural scholar to participate in the UW鈥檚 new Scholarship for Immersive Internships in Le贸n, dubbed 鈥溌pain Works!鈥� 鈥斅燼 partnership between the UW Le贸n Center, UW Study Abroad and the UW Career & Internship Center.
The 91自拍 ranks No. 25 in the world, or fifth among U.S. public institutions for student experience, faculty prestige and quality of 91自拍, according to a list published April 25 by the聽Center for World University Rankings.聽
Three 91自拍ers in the 91自拍 College of Engineering are exploring ways to make electronics more Earth-friendly.