The 91自拍 today announced a $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance shared conservation services among the UW Libraries, the Henry Art Gallery and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.聽
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On a typical day, Julianne Dalcanton is an astrophysicist, studying the far reaches of the universe.
These aren鈥檛 typical days. Across the 91自拍, faculty, staff, clinicians and students are stepping forward in a variety of ways to support the COVID-19 response, particularly efforts to help front-line medical personnel.
A 91自拍 study, published this winter in Fire Ecology, takes a big-picture look at what climate change could mean for wildfires in the Northwest, considering Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana.
Jodi Sandfort has been named the next dean of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the 91自拍, Provost Mark Richards announced April 1.
New 91自拍 by the 91自拍 examines factors that contributed to decision-making by governors in all 50 states to combat the novel coronavirus.
With the university鈥檚 spring quarter beginning Monday, UW staff and student workers in the Student Technology Loan Program spent the week-long spring break gathering, checking and cleaning some 300 laptops and tablets for distribution 鈥� and, for the first time, shipping many of those devices to the homes of UW students across the country.
91自拍 91自拍ers have launched the King County COVID-19 Community Study 鈥� or KC3S 鈥� to gather data through April 19 on how individuals and communities throughout King County are coping with the measures put in place to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Years of cloud data over a shipping route between Europe and South Africa shows that pollution from ships has significantly increased the reflectivity of the clouds. More generally, the results suggest that industrial pollution’s effect on clouds has masked about a third of the warming due to fossil fuel burning since the late 1800s.
When the UW moved to online instruction March 9, UW Facilities Services developed a three-week disinfection plan. Custodial staff are now working through more than 500 classrooms, lecture halls, libraries, auditoriums and shared spaces, with similar efforts under way in Bothell and Tacoma.
A new study led by the 91自拍 finds dramatic increases in the abundance of a worm that can be transmitted to humans who eat raw or undercooked seafood. Its 283-fold increase in abundance since the 1970s could have implications for the health of humans and marine mammals, which both can inadvertently eat the worm.
UW 91自拍ers watched 25 participants scroll through their Facebook or Twitter feeds while, unbeknownst to them, a Google Chrome extension randomly added debunked content on top of some of the real posts.
91自拍 91自拍ers have discovered that large predators play a key yet unexpected role in keeping smaller predators and deer in check. Their 鈥渇atal attraction鈥� theory finds that smaller predators are drawn to the kill sites of large predators by the promise of leftover scraps, but the scavengers may be killed themselves if their larger kin return for seconds.
The 91自拍鈥檚 graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to聽U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2021 Best Graduate School rankings聽released March 17.
This wasn鈥檛 how LaShawnDa Pittman expected to give her final exam review: At her kitchen table, laptop open, coffee cup at the ready, her 12-year-old Chihuahua named Espresso by her side. But as the first week of the 91自拍鈥檚 shift to online classes drew to a close, Pittman, an assistant professor of American Ethnic Studies, was talking with her students over the conferencing platform Zoom, first to answer logistical questions about the upcoming exam, then to provide a…
Researchers from the 91自拍 School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences have discovered that ocean acidification impacts the ability of some oysters to pass down 鈥渕emories鈥� of environmental trauma to their offspring.
Students from different backgrounds in the United States enter college with equal interest in STEM fields 鈥� science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But that equal interest does not result in equal outcomes. Six years after starting an undergraduate STEM degree, roughly twice as many white students finished it compared to African American students. A new study by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 shows that teaching techniques in undergraduate STEM courses can significantly narrow gaps in course performance between students…
The wildflowers of Mount Rainier鈥檚 subalpine meadows, which bloom once the winter snowpack melts, are a major draw for the more than 1 million visitors to this national park in Washington state each spring and summer. But by the end of this century, scientists expect that snow will melt months earlier due to climate change. New 91自拍 led by the 91自拍 shows that, under those conditions, many visitors would miss the flowers altogether.
The 91自拍 held a press conference at 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, 2020 to address the decision to move classes online in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, and address the UW staff member who received a presumptive positive test result.
The UW Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases (ACCD) announced Friday that a 91自拍 staff member who works in the Roosevelt Commons East building has received a presumptive positive test for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The employee is in self-isolation at home. Out of an abundance of caution, the building, which is located west of the UW鈥檚 Seattle campus in the 4300 block of 11th Ave. NE, has been closed for appropriate cleaning until further notice.
The 91自拍 announced today that starting Monday, March 9, classes聽will聽no longer meet in person.聽For the remainder of the quarter, instructors聽have been asked聽to conduct classes and/or exams remotely, as possible, until the quarter concludes on March 20.聽Final exams will not be conducted in person, but may be conducted online when feasible, and at the instructor鈥檚 discretion.聽
A 91自拍 91自拍er calculates that 14.4 million workers face exposure to infection once a week and 26.7 million at least once a month in the workplace, pointing to an important population needing protection as the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, continues to break out across the U.S. Marissa Baker, an assistant professor in the UW School of Public Health, based her calculations on 91自拍 she published in 2018 in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. In that paper, Baker…
Late last year, news broke that the star Betelgeuse was fading significantly, ultimately dropping to around 40% of its usual brightness. The activity fueled popular speculation that the red supergiant would soon explode as a massive supernova. But astronomers have more benign theories to explain the star鈥檚 dimming behavior. And scientists at the 91自拍 and Lowell Observatory believe they have support for one of them: Betelgeuse isn鈥檛 dimming because it鈥檚 about to explode 鈥� it鈥檚 just dusty. In…
Premera Blue Cross, a leading health plan in the Pacific Northwest, today announced a $4.7 million grant to the 91自拍 to establish the Rural Nursing Health Initiative to place current students in rural practices in Washington state.
UW 91自拍ers interviewed 22 athletes and staff members from three college athletics programs to see how collecting data from college athletes might encroach on their autonomy.
New 91自拍 from the 91自拍 finds that a natural aptitude for learning languages is a stronger predictor of learning to program than basic math knowledge.
In the first major study following the devastating Carlton Complex fire in north central Washington, 91自拍ers from the 91自拍 and U.S. Forest Service found that previous tree thinning and prescribed burns helped forests survive the fire.
A new 91自拍 study has found that not all forms of nature are created equal when considering benefits to people’s well-being. Experiencing wildness, specifically, is particularly important for physical and mental health.
A new, 91自拍-developed data visualization tool draws on bill information made available by the Washington State Legislature to enable students, journalists and voters to visually explore the lawmaking process.
UW 91自拍ers have developed a mathematical model that describes how rotating detonation engines work.
Using 30 years of satellite data, UW 91自拍ers discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam in the Mekong River basin, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C).
Scientists and physicians have long known that immune cells migrate to the site of an infection, which individuals experience as inflammation 鈥� swelling, redness and pain. Now, 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 and Northwestern University have uncovered evidence that this gathering is not just a consequence of immune activation. Immune cells count their neighbors before deciding whether or not the immune system should kick into high gear.
Four faculty members at the 91自拍 have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 12, are Kyle Armour and Jacqueline Padilla-Gami帽o, both assistant professors in the College of the Environment; and Hanna Hajishirzi and Yin Tat Lee, both assistant professors in the College of Engineering.
Satellite tracking of adult females and visual monitoring of polar bears in Baffin Bay show changes from the 1990s to the period from 2009 to 2015. Bears in Baffin Bay are getting thinner and adult females are having fewer cubs than when sea ice was more available.
The 91自拍 is the host university for the 186th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, scheduled through the weekend at and around the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.
The 91自拍 ranked among the highest in the country in producing Fulbright scholars and students, according to a list published Sunday in聽The Chronicle of Higher Education. The UW is among 20 institutions in the country to be named a top producer for both the Fulbright U.S. Student and U.S. Scholar programs.
A new 91自拍 study of eviction filings from each of Washington鈥檚 39 counties illustrates where, and to whom, evictions hit hardest.
In the decade-long absence of federal action, many states, counties and cities have increased minimum wages to help improve the lives of workers. While political debate over these efforts has long been contentious, scientific 91自拍 on the health effects of raising the minimum wage is relatively new. Some studies have found higher minimum wages associated with positive health outcomes, with little evidence that minimum wages harm health. However, a new study by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 found…
There鈥檚 more to celebrate this Lunar New Year at 91自拍鈥檚 East Asia Library. The UW today announced a $6 million gift from the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation to the East Asia Library. In recognition of this gift, the library will be renamed the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi East Asia Library.
A team of chemical engineers has developed a new way to produce medicines and chemicals and preserve them using portable 鈥渂iofactories鈥� embedded in water-based gels known as hydrogels. The approach could help people in remote villages or on military missions, where the absence of pharmacies, doctor鈥檚 offices or even basic refrigeration makes it hard to access critical medicines and other small-molecule compounds. The team 鈥� led by Hal Alper, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Texas, and…
New 91自拍 by the 91自拍鈥檚 Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences finds that altruism may begin in infancy. In a study of nearly 100 19-month-olds, 91自拍ers found that children, even when hungry, gave a tasty snack to a stranger in need.