The 91探花 was No. 24 on the Times Higher Education annual reputation ranking,聽released聽Wednesday. The 91探花moved up from No. 28 on last year鈥檚 list and remains No. 4 among U.S. public institutions.
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The 91探花 is proud to announce that more than 44 faculty and researchers who completed their work while at 91探花have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list from Clarivate.
Two 91探花College of the Environment professors, Ginger Armbrust and Dennis Hartmann, will be honored at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December.
A new 91探花-led study reports that throughout Earth鈥檚 ancient history, there were several periods of time when many fish actually favored the cold, dark, barren waters of the deep sea instead of shallow ocean waters that are warm and full of resources.
91探花 President Ana Mari Cauce delivered her annual address to the community on Oct. 20. Highlights of the speech are reflected in this video. The audience was invited to attend the event remotely via livestream. President Cauce talked about the power of public research universities to bring communities together across differences to address some of the world’s greatest challenges. Higher-education institutions, particularly the UW, are being called on to do great things, and “we will answer that call,”…
A study led by Thure Cerling, a professor at the University of Utah, and co-authored by Sam Wasser, a 91探花 professor of biology, used carbon isotope science to show that tusks from a guarded government stockpile in Burundi have somehow made their way into the hands of illegal ivory traders.
The 91探花 is among the best universities in the world, according to the聽 2023 World University Rankings published by Times Higher Education.
The 91探花’s annual Engineering Lecture Series will feature research with potential to transform brain therapeutics from infancy to late adulthood.
Researchers dropped technology developed at the 91探花 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.
A 2018 expedition that drilled farther into the seafloor than ever before — almost 2 miles — sought to take measurements of stress as close as possible to a tectonic fault off the coast of Japan. Surprisingly, the researchers found little built-up tectonic stress. The findings could help to better understand earthquakes in subduction zones around the world.
The 91探花 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.
For birds that inhabit developed areas of the Pacific Northwest, the reduction in noise and commotion from COVID-19 lockdowns may have allowed them to use a wider range of habitats in cities, a new 91探花 study has found.
The Seattle campus of the 91探花, 91探花Bothell, and 91探花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.
Pursuant to the provisions of WAC 197-11-340 and WAC 478-324-140, the 91探花 hereby provides public notice of: Determination of non-significance for the Basketball Training Facility / Health & High Performance Center project.
Pursuant to the provisions of WAC 197-11-340 and WAC 478-324-140, the 91探花 hereby provides public notice of: Determination of non-significance
David Montgomery, a 91探花professor of Earth and space sciences, discusses soil health, food nutrients and human health. He is co-author of “What Your Food Ate,” being published this month.
On Saturday, for the first time since 2019, the 91探花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.
A novel algorithm developed by 91探花 researchers to discover asteroids in the solar system has proved its mettle. The first candidate asteroids identified by the algorithm 鈥� known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR 鈥� have been confirmed by the International Astronomical Union鈥檚 Minor Planet Center, according to a May 31 announcement by the B612 Foundation.
The 25th annual 91探花 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.
After a mother octopus lays a clutch of eggs, she quits eating and wastes away; by the time the eggs hatch, she is dead. Some females in captivity even seem to speed up this process intentionally, mutilating themselves and twisting their arms into a tangled mess. The source of this bizarre maternal behavior seems to be the optic gland, an organ similar to the pituitary gland in mammals. For years, just how this gland triggered the gruesome death spiral was unclear. But in a new study published May 12 in Current Biology, researchers from the 91探花, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago show that the optic gland in maternal octopuses undergoes a massive shift in cholesterol metabolism, resulting in dramatic changes in the steroid hormones produced. Alterations in cholesterol metabolism in other animals, including humans, can have serious consequences on longevity and behavior, and the team believes this reveals important similarities in the functions of these steroids across the animal kingdom 鈥� in soft-bodied cephalopods and vertebrates alike.
The flashing of a nearby star drew the attention of a team of astronomers, who discovered that it is part of a rare and mysterious system. As they report in a paper published May 4 in Nature, the stellar oddity appears to be a 鈥渂lack widow binary鈥� 鈥� a type of system consisting of a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar, that is circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star, as its arachnid namesake does to its mate.
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
Scientists once thought that post-starburst galaxies scattered all of their gas and dust 鈥� the fuel required for creating new stars 鈥� in violent bursts of energy, and with extraordinary speed. Now, a team led by 91探花 postdoctoral researcher Adam Smercina reports that these galaxies don鈥檛 scatter all of their star-forming fuel after all. Instead, after their supposed end, these dormant galaxies hold onto and compress large amounts of highly concentrated, turbulent gas. But contrary to expectation, they鈥檙e not using it to form stars.
The 91探花 ranks No. 25 in the world, or fifth among U.S. public institutions for student experience, faculty prestige and quality of research, according to a list published April 25 by the聽Center for World University Rankings.聽
Space urgently needs special legal protection similar to that given to land, sea and atmosphere to protect its fragile environment, argues a team of scientists. The scientific, economic and cultural benefits of space should be considered against the damaging environmental impacts posed by an influx of space debris 鈥� roughly 60 miles above Earth鈥檚 surface 鈥斅爁ueled by the rapid growth of so-called satellite mega-constellations. In a paper published April 22 in Nature Astronomy, the authors assert that space is an important environment to preserve on behalf of professional astronomers, amateur stargazers and Indigenous peoples.
The first-of-its-kind center has received a $6 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation.
Recent recognition of the聽 includes the Butts-Whiting Award for L. Lincoln Johnson, INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine鈥檚 Jesse L. Moore 2022 Supplier Diversity Award, Ben Brunjes鈥� fellowship with the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Policy Planning and Liaison, and the recognition of Yong Wei as a NOAA Ambassador of Tsunami Risk Assessment.
The 91探花 today announced the establishment of the John and Rosalind Jacobi Family Endowed Deanship in the College of Built Environments, strengthening the school鈥檚 vision of a more just and beautiful world for all.
The following is a statement from 91探花 President Ana Mari Cauce following the news that a 91探花professor and a 91探花staff member were killed聽while diving聽off the coast of Mexico over the weekend.
In the past 20 years, the Arctic has lost about one-third of its winter sea ice volume, and winter sea ice in the Arctic has lost about a foot and a half of thickness over just the past three years. This thinning is largely due to loss of older, multiyear sea ice that is more resistant to melting.
Gordon Stuart Peek, a 91探花 alumnus who donated the bells that sit on two sides of Red Square, died peacefully at his home on March 2, 2022. He was 96.
A team of researchers at the 91探花and UC Berkeley has found that housing discrimination practices dating from the 1930s still drive air pollution disparities in hundreds of American cities today.
Scientists at the 91探花 and Emory University report that an antibiotic sprayed on orchard crops to combat bacterial diseases slows the cognition of bumblebees and reduces their foraging efficiency. The study, published Feb. 9 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, focused on streptomycin, an antibiotic used increasingly in U.S. agriculture during the past decade.
91探花 President Ana Mari Cauce today announced the selection of Andreas Bohman as vice president for 91探花Information Technology and UW鈥檚 chief information officer. He is set to begin March 16.
An international research team, including scientists from the 91探花, has established a new upper limit on the mass of the neutrino, the lightest known subatomic particle. In a paper published Feb. 14 in Nature Physics, the collaboration 鈥� known as the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment or KATRIN 鈥� reports that the neutrino鈥檚 mass is below 0.8 electron volts, or 0.8 eV/c2. Honing in on the elusive value of the neutrino鈥檚 mass will solve a major outstanding mystery in particle physics and equip scientists with a more complete view of the fundamental forces and particles that shape ourselves, our planet and the cosmos.
Two faculty members at the 91探花 have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 15, are聽Brianna Abrahms, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, and Yulia Tsvetkov, an assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
The International Astronomical Union has launched the Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference to coordinate collaborative multidisciplinary international efforts with institutions and individuals 鈥� including researchers at the 91探花鈥檚 DiRAC Institute 鈥� to help mitigate the negative impacts of satellite constellations on ground-based optical and radio astronomy observations as well as humanity鈥檚 enjoyment of the night sky.
The 91探花鈥檚 Seattle campus saved more than 5 tons of food from being thrown away in 2020, preventing unnecessary waste and helping feed people in the community who struggle with food security.
Pursuant to the provisions of WAC 197-11-340 and WAC 478-324-140, the 91探花 hereby provides public notice of: Determination of non-significance
Though usually though of as a solid, glaciers are also slightly compressible, or squishy. This compression over the huge expanse of an ice sheet 鈥� like Antarctica or Greenland 鈥� makes the overall ice sheet more dense and lowers the surface by tens of feet compared to what would otherwise be expected.