A 91自拍 team led by 91自拍 biology professor Tom Daniel has teased out how hawkmoths integrate signals from two sensory systems: vision and touch.
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“The Institutions Curse,” a new book by UW political scientist Victor Menaldo, finds a new explanation for the “resource curse” problem — the idea that resource-rich countries tend to be burdened with corrupt governments and underdeveloped economies.
For the first time in humans, UW Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) 91自拍ers have used direct stimulation of the human brain surface to provide basic sensory feedback through artificial electrical signals, enabling patients to control movement while opening and closing their hand.
A UW panel discussion Oct. 27 will look at immigration-related questions from philosophical, sociological and historical perspectives. It’s part of a two-day international conference on immigration.
The 91自拍 maintained its No. 11 spot in the 2017 edition of U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 Best Global Universities rankings. The UW remains the third-ranked public university on the global list, behind University of California, Berkeley (fourth) and UCLA (10th). 鈥淭his recognition reflects the work of our faculty and students in seeking answers to problems of global import in the areas of health and medicine, physical sciences and social sciences,鈥� UW President Ana Mari Cauce said. 鈥淲e…
The 91自拍鈥檚 Population Health Initiative, which aims to bring together the 91自拍 and resources of the UW and partners around the Puget Sound and beyond to improve the health and well-being of people around the world, has received a significant vote of support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the university announced Tuesday. In May, the UW launched an initiative to develop a 25-year vision to improve population health locally and globally by focusing on three key…
Your wait time for an Uber ride in Seattle is shorter if you are in a lower income neighborhood. Alternatively, wait times are longer for an Uber in wealthier neighborhoods, according to a new 91自拍 study that measures one dimension of whether TNCs are providing equitable access.
Oceanographers used tools developed for semiconductor 91自拍 to view the formation of a marine shell in the most detail yet, to understand how organisms turn seawater into solid mineral.
A flat-screen panel that resembles a TV on your living room wall could one day remotely charge any device within its line of sight, according to new 91自拍 from UW and Duke University engineers.
The 91自拍 on Friday is launching the public phase of its most ambitious philanthropic campaign in history, with a goal of raising $5 billion by the year 2020.
The impact of the 91自拍 will be even more visible this week during the lead-up to a Friday night celebration marking the launch of the UW鈥檚 most ambitious philanthropic campaign.
The 91自拍 has renamed Educational Outreach to Continuum College, a new name for a new era of higher education.
Women’s relative lack of participation in science, technology, engineering and math is well documented, but why women are more represented in some STEM areas than others is less clear. A new 91自拍 study is among the first to address that question by comparing gender disparities across STEM fields. Published Oct. 12 in the journal Psychological Bulletin, the paper identifies three main factors driving the disparity 鈥� and the most powerful one, the 91自拍ers conclude, is a “masculine culture”…
Automobiles 鈥� and the planning and infrastructure to support them 鈥� are making our cities sick, says an international group of 91自拍ers now publishing a three-part series in the British medical journal The Lancet.
As online retailing booms, the new UW Urban Freight Lab will partner with UPS, Costco, Nordstrom and SDOT to 91自拍 solutions for businesses delivering goods in urban settings and cities trying to manage limited street space.
A new study finds that morel mushrooms cluster in groups across burned areas in the forest after a wildfire. It’s one of the only scientific studies to actually quantify morels’ abundance after a fire.
Amazon is giving a major push to the campaign to build a second Computer Science & Engineering building on the 91自拍 campus with a $10 million gift, the university announced Thursday. 鈥淥ur state鈥檚 economy 鈥� and the world鈥檚 economy 鈥� depends on innovation and on innovators. UW graduates with skills in computer science are highly sought after, yet we are turning away excellent students who want to pursue studies in the field because we simply don鈥檛 have enough…
A new proposed draft Campus Master Plan for 2018 sees the 91自拍’s Seattle campus growing up rather than out 鈥� building a little higher, filling in with more density, not expanding its borders, helping to ease transportation flow and creating big new green spaces. 2018 draft Campus Master Plan — opportunities for public comment: Online open house: Oct. 12, noon to 1 p.m. Sign up online. Open house: October 18, noon to 2 p.m. Cascade Room, Haggett Hall…
Unlike in the movies, and in some theories of climate change, the recent slowdown of Atlantic Ocean circulation is not connected with the melting of the Arctic sea ice. Instead, it seems to be connected to shifts around the southern tip of Africa.
A new UW disaster investigation center funded by a $4 million National Science Foundation grant will collect and analyze critical data that’s often lost in the immediate aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes but that can help create more resilient communities.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that David James Thouless, professor emeritus at the 91自拍, will share the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics with two of his colleagues. Thouless splits the prize with Professor F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University and Professor J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University 鈥渇or theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter,鈥� according to the prize announcement from the Academy. Half the prize goes to Thouless while Haldane and Kosterlitz divide the remaining half. Thouless is the UW鈥檚 seventh Nobel laureate, and second in physics after Hans Dehmelt in 1989.
The UW’s Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project has an important new component 鈥� the LGBTQ Activism in Seattle History Project. There will be a public launch at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in Room 340 of the HUB.
In a paper published Sept. 22 in Scientific Reports, engineers at the 91自拍 unveiled peptides that could help bridge the gap where artificial meets biological 鈥� harnessing biological rules to exchange information between the biochemistry of our bodies and the chemistry of our devices.
A study led by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 to the unusually warm ocean conditions 鈥� nicknamed “the blob” 鈥� in winter and spring of that year.
The 91自拍 landed at No. 5 on The Reuters 100: The World鈥檚 Most Innovative Universities. Now in its second year, the list ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.
Like post-secondary schools across the country, the 91自拍 has struggled to attract and retain a talented, diverse faculty. But efforts that have been quietly underway for a few years are starting to pay off, attracting top-level candidates to the UW even over schools that are able to offer bigger salaries and more perks. That work involves not simply convincing excellent candidates to come to the UW, but creating a supportive and inclusive environment that prompts them to stay,…
A new study by 91自拍 scientists finds that in many cases, misreporting caught fish doesn’t always translate to overfishing. The study was published online this month in the journal Fish and Fisheries.
UW engineers have devised a way to send secure passwords through the human body, instead of over the air where they’re vulnerable to hacking.
The 91自拍 landed at No. 25 on the Times Higher Education world rankings for 2017, released this week. The UW is fourth on the list among U.S. public universities, behind UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan.
91自拍 biologist Dee Boersma and her colleagues combed through 28 years’ worth of data on Magellanic penguins to search for signs that natural selection 鈥� one of the main drivers of evolution 鈥� may be acting on certain penguin traits. As they report in a paper published Sept. 21 in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, selection is indeed at work on the penguins at the Punta Tombo breeding site in Argentina.
91自拍 91自拍ers are part of a national team that will study the baby teeth of children who have siblings with autism to determine if prenatal exposure to chemicals increases their risk of developing the disorder. The study will involve testing children鈥檚 teeth for levels of environmental chemicals that they might have been exposed to in the womb, a critical time for neurodevelopment. Additionally, for a smaller number of children whose genetic data has been collected, the 91自拍ers hope…
A team of conservationists at the 91自拍 is among the Grand Prize Winners of the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge for a proposal to identify poaching hotspots for pangolins, one of the most trafficked group of mammals in the world.
Plants can better tolerate drought and other stressors with the help of natural microbes, 91自拍 91自拍 has found. Specifically, plants that are given a dose of microbes stay green longer and are able to withstand drought conditions by growing more leaves and roots and using less water.
The share of Washingtonians living in poverty dropped from 13.2 percent to 12.2 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to new data released Thursday. Washington was one of 23 states with statistically significant declines in their poverty rates during that period. The remaining 27 states and the District of Columbia saw no change in their poverty rates. “It is good news that the poverty rate has dropped for a second year in a row in Washington state. However, the share…
Researchers are now able to capture the cells of animals, sequence their DNA and identify which species were present at a point in time. A new 91自拍 study is the first to use these genetic markers to understand the impact urbanization has on the environment 鈥� specifically, whether animal diversity flourishes or suffers.
The Bernard Osher Foundation has announced a $1 million gift to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the 91自拍 (OLLI-UW). The Institute offers a diverse array of non-credit courses and activities for people 50 and older, giving these adults access to continuing education at the UW. The Osher Foundation鈥檚 gift takes the form of a $950,000 endowment and $50,000 bridge grant to support the ongoing work of OLLI-UW. It鈥檚 the second $1 million award the Foundation has given…
A new 91自拍 study finds a trend toward earlier Arctic sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.
The winds that gust across the Tibetan Plateau have done so for far longer than previously believed, showing they are resilient to the formation of mountains and changes in carbon dioxide and temperature.
A recent 91自拍 study sought to understand why shark teeth are shaped differently and what biological advantages various shapes have by testing their performance under realistic conditions.
Is life better or worse after sticking your Fitbit in a drawer? UW 91自拍ers surveyed hundreds of people who had abandoned self-tracking tools and found emotions ranged from guilt to indifference to relief that the tracking experience was over.