The upcoming season finale of TLC’s popular program “Who Do You Think You Are,” airing May 1, will feature 91探花professor Devin Naar helping television star Lea Michele learn about her Sephardic Jewish ancestry.
Education
For some young men of color, college might seem a world away. To an African-American boy growing up in poverty, a Latino son of migrant farmworkers or a young Native American man living on a remote reservation, the path to post-secondary education can be hard to visualize. And once on campus, the reality can be daunting. Role models might be lacking, the sense of isolation overwhelming. A new 91探花 pilot program aims to address those obstacles and boost…
A daylong colloquium, “Shakespeare, Music and Memory” will bring scholars and musicians to the 91探花 campus April 29 for lectures ending with a concert of Shakespeare-themed songs by the School of Music’s Collegium Musicum ensemble. The free events were organized by JoAnn Taricani, associate professor and chair of the School of Music‘s Division of Music History, are timed to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare‘s death in April of 1616. Scholars from several universities will give presentations…
Many brain studies show that bilingual adults have more activity in areas associated with executive function, a set of mental abilities that includes problem-solving, shifting attention and other desirable cognitive traits. Now new findings reveal that this bilingualism-related difference in brain activity is evident as early as 11 months of age, just as babies are on the verge of producing their first words. “Our results suggest that before they even start talking, babies raised in bilingual households are getting practice…
The 91探花 will create an undergraduate minor in real estate studies thanks to a $5.4 million gift from retired Windermere Real Estate founder John Jacobi and his wife, Rosalind. The Jacobis鈥� gift will also support two new endowed faculty chairs at the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies in the UW鈥檚 College of Built Environments.
For the 22nd time in the past 23 years, the 91探花聽ranked as the No. 1 primary care medical school聽in the country, according to聽U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2017 Best Graduate School rankings聽released Tuesday. The rural medicine and family medicine programs have also led the nation since those rankings began in 1992. In a new ranking this year, the UW’s doctor of nursing practice program is first among 149 programs nationwide. See聽all 91探花Medicine and other health sciences graduate…
The evolving nature of the public sector will be the topic when professionals and scholars from the UW’s Evans School for Public Policy & Governance and around the world gather in Seattle March 17-22 for the 77th annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration.
A longhouse-style building opened on the 91探花 campus in March 2015, on land where the longhouses and village of the Duwamish tribe once stood. Intellectual House, or w菨色菨b蕯altx史, is a tangible recognition of the area’s original inhabitants. And it is a catalyst for the university鈥檚 recent efforts to ramp up Indigenous learning in departments across campus. Over the past three years, the 91探花College of Arts & Sciences has added seven faculty members focused on Indigenous studies. Those…
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the 91探花 a three-year, $750,000 grant to support guest artists in developing new works, and to better integrate arts disciplines into the broader university curriculum.
The grant will support a Creative Fellowships Initiative, under which guest performing artist fellows will be recruited from around the world for one- to three-year residencies in dance, music and theater.
The latest installment of Information School professor Joe Janes’ podcast series Documents that Changed the World discusses 168 powerful words condemning slavery that were excised from the Declaration of Independence at the last minute.
The 91探花 and Gonzaga University have signed an agreement to continue, enhance and expand medical education and research in Spokane.
David Levy of the 91探花Information School discusses his new book, “Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to our Digital Lives,” published in January by Yale University Press.
For the second year in a row, the 91探花 produced聽the most Peace Corps volunteers among large universities with聽72 Huskies currently serving around the world. The 91探花is also ranked No. 4 among graduate schools with 16 alumni currently volunteering. 鈥淐ommunity engagement 鈥� here and across the globe 鈥� is part of what makes a 91探花student鈥檚 experience the best it can be. One way our students give back to the community is by volunteering for the Peace Corps,鈥�…
A new program based at the 91探花 will bring together educational institutions, K-12 teachers and informal education organizations to inspire, teach and recruit the next generation of students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The new Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pipeline, or NESSP, has begun a $10 million,聽five-year cooperative agreement with NASA that broadens existing programs and launches new efforts throughout Washington, Oregon and Montana, with a particular focus on underserved and underrepresented communities. “The goal is…
People expressing the wish to resist constant online connectivity 鈥� dubbed “pushback” by 91探花 Information School researchers 鈥� is manifested as powerfully in images as in text, further study has found.
Pursuing scientific or engineering careers in industry, government or private research after getting a Ph.D. used to be considered a one-way ticket out of academia. But new 91探花research finds numerous benefits 鈥� to students, researchers and academic institutions looking to diversify their faculty 鈥� in making that return trip easier.
The 91探花has signed on to a new report and initiative encouraging changes to the college admissions process to promote greater ethical and intellectual engagement on the part of prospective students.
Jennifer Cohen, senior associate athletic director at the 91探花, has been named interim athletic director, 91探花President Ana Mari Cauce announced Tuesday. Cohen steps in for Scott Woodward, who announced earlier this month he would be taking a position at Texas A&M University. Cohen鈥檚 appointment is effective Feb. 1. 鈥淲ith her years of experience as a senior administrator in our athletic department, Jen will provide excellent leadership as we undertake a national search for a new athletic director,鈥�…
Dance professor Juliet McMains discusses her book “Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce,” published by Oxford University Press.
In December, the 91探花’s Department of Bioengineering began accepting applications for its newest graduate degree program, the Master of Applied Bioengineering. The one-year, full-time program begins in August, and will train students to apply engineering design and entrepreneurship skills to address unmet clinical needs and to transform biomedical research into technologies for improving health care. The degree will position graduates to respond to market-based demands of industry, medicine and translational research.
DO-IT, a 91探花 program, is looking for high school students with disabilities to apply to be program scholars. Applicants must be a current high school sophomore or junior in Washington, have an aptitude and interest in attending college, have any disability, and must be motivated to participate and interested in interacting with other students with a variety of disabilities. The application can be found online. Applicants who are selected as聽DO-IT scholars聽are loaned computers and adaptive technology needed to…
Today’s college graduates tend to be highly trained and employable but often lack a key skill needed for post-college life: how to identify and ask their own questions, according to a new study.
From a new president and聽lasers cooling liquids to spotting rare sea creatures and major collaborations, great things have聽happened聽at the 91探花聽in 2015.聽Here’s a look back at the top stories of the year. These stories were chosen based on the total number of聽views they received on our website and are not in any particular order. 91探花Regents name Ana Mari Cauce president October 13, 2015 The 91探花 Board of Regents selected Interim President Ana Mari Cauce to be…
The 91探花will offer a new Master of Science in Data Science program to provide students with advanced technical expertise in managing, modeling and visualizing big data to meet the growing needs of industry and research.
91探花historian James Gregory’s new collaborative digital project, “Mapping American Social Movements through the 20th Century” uses data visualization and interactive maps to depict the progress of various social movements — with more to come.
Effective teachers don’t just impact their own students’ achievement, they can significantly improve the performance of their fellow teachers’ students, new research shows.
The 91探花 held its first ever Innovation Summit today in Shanghai, China. The event brought together industry leaders from China and the United States, who discussed how they are turning ideas into impact, connecting academia to industry and helping solve the world鈥檚 most pressing problems.
Melinda Bargreen is a Seattle-based freelance arts writer who spent 31 years as classical music critic for The Seattle Times. She is the author of “Classical Seattle: Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers,” published this fall by 91探花 Press. Bargreen is a 91探花 alumna, with a bachelor of arts in English and a master of arts in music. Dave Beck of Seattle classical radio station KING FM said, “No other book provides such a well-informed…
91探花historian Michael Honey and filmmaker Errol Webber have produced a documentary about the life of Methodist minister and civil rights activist Rev. James Lawson that will be screened in Tacoma on Oct. 28, Seattle on Oct. 29
Margaret O’Mara, 91探花associate professor of history, discusses her new book, “Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century.”
Continuing a recent string of noteworthy accolades, the 91探花 held its place at No. 5 in the world on the National Taiwan University Ranking of Scientific Papers, which was released Friday. The ranking is based on performance of scientific papers in three major categories 鈥� research productivity, research impact and research excellence. 鈥淥ne of the major ways we contribute to the health and prosperity of our world is through research and scholarship. Given the excellence of our faculty,…
A new group at the 91探花School of Law will spend the academic year studying existing and emerging markets for marijuana, to assist and inform the state as it prepares to blend current medical and recreational markets for cannabis.
A groundbreaking new report provides a sobering picture of the state of urban education in America, especially when it comes to educational opportunities for poor students and students of color, who now make up the majority of America鈥檚 public school students nationwide. The report provides the first citywide assessment of the changing and complex public school landscape in the U.S., enabling city leaders to assess the overall health of all of their cities鈥� schools, regardless of whether they are district-…
A diverse coalition of public and private colleges and universities including the 91探花 is coming together with the goal of improving the college admission application process for all students.聽 The Coalition is developing a free platform of online tools to streamline the experience of planning for and applying to college. The initial iteration of the planning tools will be available to freshmen, sophomores and juniors in high school beginning in January 2016. In creating this platform, these colleges…
Chinese President Xi Jinping presented the gift of a dawn redwood tree to the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX), a new partnership between the 91探花 and Tsinghua University, during a ceremony at Microsoft headquarters Wednesday.
The 91探花 is the most innovative public university in the world, according to a new ranking by Reuters released Wednesday. The 91探花is ranked fourth overall, behind only Stanford, MIT and Harvard. 鈥淚nnovation and turning ideas into action are at the center of everything we do,鈥� 91探花Interim President Ana Mari Cauce said. 鈥淭his is great recognition of the hard work done by our faculty and students working across all disciplines, and I can鈥檛 wait to see what…
Faculty members from several departments at the 91探花 will share $2.25 million in research funds from the National Science Foundation to study and apply the principles of evolution “in real time.” Their studies are a part of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. Founded in 2010, this NSF science and technology center is a partnership among five universities to better understand evolutionary processes and apply concepts such as adaptation and selection to new and…
Two professors from the 91探花 and Oklahoma State University have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to bring six Native American undergraduate students to their first scientific meeting. The students will attend the Jan. 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Portland, Oregon. Known commonly by its acronym, SICB, this broad scientific research society of 3,500 members promotes research and collaboration on diverse topics within biology such as evolution, developmental…
For the second consecutive year, the 91探花 held the No. 7 spot in the nation in Washington Monthly鈥檚 annual College Guide, which rates universities on students鈥� social mobility, civic engagement and research. Washington Monthly also rates colleges that are doing the best job of helping lower-income students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices, and named the 91探花No. 1 on its 鈥渂est bang for the buck鈥� western region list. 鈥淭he 91探花is proud to be a public university…
The 91探花 remained No. 15 on the聽2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was released Monday. The 91探花again ranked 13th among U.S. universities and fourth among public institutions worldwide. The ranking considers several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, papers published in the journals Nature and Science, papers indexed in…