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.
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Laada Bilaniuk is a professor of anthropology at the whose expertise is Ukrainian culture and society. The daughter of Ukrainian Americans, she shares insights on the Ukrainian people who are resisting, how the conflict relates to the use of language and the perspective of the local Ukrainian community.
As the green crab invasion in the state worsens, a new analysis method developed by 91探花 and Washington Sea Grant scientists could help contain future invasions and prevent new outbreaks using water testing and genetic analysis. The results show that the DNA-based technique works as well in detecting the presence of green crabs as setting traps to catch the live animals, which is a more laborious process. Results suggest these two methods could complement each other as approaches to learn where the species鈥� range is expanding.
As the year draws to a close, we present highlights from video stories produced by 91探花News during 2021 鈥� a year where the COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact our lives.
The 91探花’s annual Veterans Day ceremony, held on Thursday at the Medal of Honor Memorial near Red Square, featured music by the Husky Marching Band and a formation of 91探花Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets.
On Sunday, Nov. 7 we switch from daylight saving time to standard time. A 91探花 expert in circadian rhythms says that鈥檚 a good thing.
Perry Acworth, 91探花Farm manager, talks about different varieties of winter squash 鈥� from the palm-sized pie pumpkin to聽Cucurbita maxima, which can produce giant pumpkins.
At 10:21 a.m. on Oct. 21, teacher Wade Johnson’s science class at Port Susan Middle School scrambled under their desks as part of the annual Great American ShakeOut. It was Stanwood Camano School District鈥檚 first live test of its earthquake early warning system with all 13 of its schools participating in a 鈥淒rop, Cover, and Hold On鈥� drill.
91探花President Ana Mari Cauce delivered her 2021 annual address, sharing her perspective on the road ahead as we work together to recover from the pandemic and support equity and well-being for our community of faculty, staff and students.
In 2013, Seattle鈥檚 U District neighborhood lost one of its most cherished businesses. The Continental Greek Restaurant and Pastry Shop, owned by the family of the Jackson School’s Taso Lagos, sat on University Way for nearly 40 years before closing its doors that June. Lagos looks back on the restaurant and what it meant to his family in a memoir due to be released this fall.
91探花 Associate Professor Wendy Barrington will be the featured speaker at the university鈥檚 38th annual New Student Convocation. Barrington has joint appointments in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing in the School of Nursing and the departments of Epidemiology and of Health Systems and Population Health in the School of Public Health.
Student move-in days are a yearly event at the UW, generating excitement among families and fueled by student volunteers. About 10,000 students聽living in residence halls for the 2021-2022 academic year are moving in September 21 to 24.聽
Researchers at the 91探花 and 91探花Tacoma have been studying arsenic levels in the mud, water and in creatures from lakes in the south Puget Sound area. Eating contaminated fish or snails from these lakes could lead to health risks.
During his senior year,聽Owen聽Oliver created a walking tour of聽UW鈥檚聽Seattle campus, highlighting聽the Indigenous presence on campus.
Hardship, change and resilience 鈥� that鈥檚 been the experience of the U District community during the pandemic, just as it鈥檚 been the experience of us all. As students, faculty and staff return to campus in September, they are going to find that the UW鈥檚 front door looks different 鈥� and it is on the precipice of even bigger changes to come.
The new Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub, led by Oregon State University and the 91探花, will study coastal hazards and community resilience. The National Science Foundation awarded $18.9 million for the hub over five years.
Mary Gresch has been named senior vice president for advancement at the 91探花, 91探花President Ana Mari Cauce announced this week. Gresch鈥檚 appointment is effective Sept. 1.
The Nehemiah Studio, a 91探花class on mitigating gentrification in Seattle’s Central District, has been honored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Soil, particularly in urban areas, can hold contaminants that are unhealthy for people who handle it or eat things grown in the ground. Chemicals left behind by vehicles, air pollution and heavy industry can show up in the ground and in plants. Melanie Malone, assistant professor in 91探花Bothell鈥檚 School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences investigates these contaminants and their prevalence in shared garden spaces.
Recent honors and achievements by 91探花faculty include an early career award for study of family communication and a distinguished service award for decades in support of theoretical computing.
The 91探花 is announcing the steps it will take in this fiscal year, starting July 1, to reach the targets set in the UW鈥檚 Sustainability Action Plan.
Recent news from the Jackson School of International Studies includes a new endowed scholarship for study of India made possible by two alumni, and a book on angels in ancient Jewish culture by Jewish Studies professor Mika Ahuvia.
In her new book, Jana Mohr Lone of the 91探花Center for Philosophy for Children asks, how would the world benefit if children were recognized as independent thinkers?
Development has changed the face of the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, says Manish Chalana, associate professor of urban design and planning at the 91探花, but it remains the heart of the city’s LGBTQ community.
Back in the summers of 2018 and 2019, the shellfish industry in Washington state was rocked by mass mortalities of its crops. Now, researchers think they have figured out why: high concentrations of yessotoxinss, which are produced by blooms of certain phytoplankton. The researchers鈥� findings were published last month in the open-access journal Harmful Algae.
Ocean Voices, a program of the 91探花Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center to advance equity in ocean science, has been named among the first group of actions taken in a United Nations-sponsored, decade-long program of ocean science for sustainable development.
This summer a 91探花mobile health outreach van will hit the road, bringing some basic health care services to people without housing who might have a hard time getting to a doctor鈥檚 office.
The 91探花鈥檚 second virtual commencement was held June 12, 2021. The online ceremony, the second in the school鈥檚 161-year history, celebrated the Class of 2021 with graduates and their families and friends watching the ceremony from more than 30 countries with translations in nine languages.
Shawn Wong, 91探花English professor and longtime advocate for Asian American literature, has received the 2021 Stand UP Award from the Association of University Presses.
Two professors with the 91探花Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering — Shyam Gollakota and Anna Karlin — have received 2020 honors from the Association for Computing Machinery.
The potted junipers on the steps of Suzzallo Library are undergoing a transformation. Flanking the entrance to one of UW’s most beloved buildings, they are viewed by hundreds of people walking through Red Square each week. Bioengineering postdoctoral researcher Le Zhen is transforming these shrubs into bonsai 鈥� miniature trees that are pruned, nurtured and trained with wire to look like their much older, full-sized counterparts living in nature. He hopes this prominent display of bonsai will signal to members of the AAPI community that 91探花is safe and welcoming.
Recent honors for 91探花faculty include the 2021 Presburger award for theoretical computer science, an Early Career Faculty Innovator research grant for a collaboration in environmental studies with the Karuk Tribe in California, and a fellowship to explore war regulations and raiding norms among early Arabian Jewish communities.
In his latest book, “Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices,” Charles Wolfe asks: How can we create urban environments that are truly livable?
The 91探花 on Monday announced it will require all students on all three of its campuses to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before the start of the autumn quarter. The announcement comes with six weeks remaining in the spring quarter to provide time for students who are in the area to get vaccinated before summer.
Recent honors to 91探花faculty include a Golden Apple Award for teaching innovation from Seattle television station KCTS and a Leading the Narrative award for community engagement from the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
The 91探花鈥檚 Spokane Center will soon serve the community and its constituents from new offices in Spokane鈥檚 historic Spokane Inland Empire Railroad (SIERR) Building, located in the heart of Spokane鈥檚 growing University District. The 91探花Spokane Center will relocate May 1, 2021, to new offices at 850 E. Spokane Falls Blvd. from its office at 201 West Main, where it has been housed since 2015.
91探花biology professors Jeffrey Riffell and David Perkel have received grants from the Human Frontier Science Program.
Manuel S. Martinez, a lifelong campesino, trabajador and community organizer, recalls the beginning of the pandemic. Interviewed by 91探花student Adriana Martinez.聽 Zoom, masks, family and politics聽鈥� these are some of the lasting memories shared by participants in a 91探花 student oral history project. Undergraduate seniors in the聽Public Health Global Health major at the 91探花School of Public Health partnered with the Washington State Historical Society to record the experiences of friends, family and associates living through the…
A root cause of America’s sharp division, 91探花international studies professor Dan Chirot says, is that the visions of the left and right are based on “drastically different histories.”
The retirement of Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden after a 30-year career with the company 鈥撀燼t least in one way 鈥撀爃ad the 91探花 written all over it. Horizon Air recently unveiled a special Huskies-themed livery on a Q400 (tail number #N435QX) in honor of Tilden, who earned his MBA at the 91探花and has maintained a strong partnership with the University for several years. Tilden retired March 31.