During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Curating in Conversation: A Panel Series on Sharing Northwest Native Art and Art History with the Public April 12, 7:00 – 8:30 PM | Online In…
As carbon dioxide continues to rise, multiple changes in the leaves of tropical plants may help these ecosystems perform better under climate change than previous studies had suggested.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) celebrates 50 years + Beverly Guy-Sheftall 鈥� Say Her Name: The Urgency of Black Feminism Now April 5…
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Fighting Visibility: Unpaid Gendered & Racialized Labor for the UFC March 31, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |聽Online In the first COM Spring Colloquium, hosted by the…
An Intel Corporation award for work to make computers more energy-efficient, a Research Corporation for Science award for chemistry research and education, and two Google inclusion awards to create technology for underrepresented populations.
Linh Th峄 Nguy峄卬, an assistant professor of American ethnic studies at the 91探花, discusses the recent wave of violence against Asians and Asian Americans, and the history behind it.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Joff Hanauer Honors Lecture Series:聽Seattle/PNW History March 23, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |聽Online Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies invites us…
The message of “Forgetting Nature,” a new documentary film featuring Peter Kahn, is short but powerful: We humans are losing our connection to the natural world, at our great peril.
91探花 psychology professor Jane Simoni discusses how COVID-19 vaccines are gradually spurring the return to normal life, and the role of positive public health messaging.
“Jewish Questions,” a podcast from the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, explores issues of Jewish life, politics, history and culture
In a study published Feb. 15 in Nature Chemistry, a research team led by Munira Khalil, professor and chair of chemistry at the 91探花, has captured the rapid motions of solvent molecules that impact light-driven electron transfer in a molecular complex for the first time. This 聽information could help researchers learn how to control energy flow in molecules, potentially leading to more efficient clean energy sources.
Amid a growing mental health crisis among teens and young adults nationwide, a pilot program teaching mindfulness and coping techniques to students at the 91探花 has helped lower stress and improve emotional well-being.
A new 91探花 study finds that an identification with all humanity, as opposed to identification with a geographic area like a country or town, predicts whether someone will engage in 鈥減rosocial鈥� behaviors particular to the pandemic, such as donating extra masks or coming to the aid of a sick person.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds:聽Ethiopia in Theory, Theory as Memoir March 17, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |聽Online Can Tizita, the Amharic term for memory…
With the help of about 200 human puzzle-takers, a computer model and functional MRI images, 91探花 researchers have learned more about the processes of reasoning and decision making, pinpointing the brain pathway that springs into action when problem-solving goes south.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 2021 Scheidel Lecture: Horror Noire 鈥� Blacks in American Horror March 10, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |聽Online The Department of Communication is thrilled to welcome acclaimed…
Recent honors and achievements by 91探花faculty and staff include a grant for field research in the Middle East, a staffer’s play being streamed by a Seattle theater and a professor’s cartoon remembrance of a relative lost to COVID-19.
A new study published Feb. 24 in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents the earliest-known fossil evidence of primates. These creatures lived less than 150,000 years after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs and saw the rise of mammals.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Fermented Face with Candice Lin March 2, 1:00 – 2:30 PM |聽Online Fermented Face聽is a workshop聽sponsored by the Henry Art Gallery with artist Candice Lin聽that uses…
The Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society and a dissertation award from the Society for American Archaeology.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Joff Hanauer Honors Lecture Series:聽U.S. Foreign Policy and American Policing February 23, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |聽Online Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor in the Jackson School of…
Historian Anand Yang writes about the British history of shipping of convicted criminals to other continents; and new world music education books from ethnomusicologist Patricia Shehan Campbell.
Seven 91探花 scientists are included in Cell Mentor鈥檚 list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists, published in December 2020. Cell Mentor is a collaborative resource between Cell Press and Cell Signaling Technology.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Monsen Photography Lecture: Deborah Willis February 18, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |聽Online In 鈥淪taying Engaged: Social Protest, Migrations, and Responses in Art,鈥� sponsored by the Henry…
Recent honors and achievements by 91探花faculty include a keynote address at a national Holocaust commemoration event, an album of new compositions and a best-of-2020 musical nod from the Seattle Times.
Even if all countries meet their Paris Agreement goals for reducing emissions, Earth has only a 5% chance of staying below 2 C warming this century, a previous study showed. But reductions about 80% more ambitious, or an average of 1.8% drop in emissions per year rather than 1% per year, would be enough to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal.
Morales has authored a seven-part series for Ars Technica on quantum mechanics for a general audience. One article in the series is rolling out each week from Jan. 10 to Feb. 21. Morales sat down with 91探花News to talk about the series, quantum mechanics and what he hopes the public can learn about this seemingly odd and possibly intimidating realm of science.
New data from the 91探花, collected just before and after the Capitol riot, reveals fervent Trump voters’ opinions about race, gender, the pandemic and the 2020 election.
A 91探花team created Audeo, a system that can generate music using only visual cues of someone playing the piano.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 In case you missed it: Reimagining the Humanities Recorded event |聽Online What can Homer’s Odyssey teach STEM students? What new journeys can you take during a…
“Making Amends,” a new podcast by 91探花 professor Steve Herbert, explores themes of atonement among men incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
Notable recent books written or edited by 91探花faculty include an exploration of African American political theory, a book on philosophy and migration and a textbook on health data science.
91探花student Zoe Mikuta鈥檚 first book, 鈥淕earbreakers,鈥� is set to come out June 29. Categorized in the young adult genre, it tells the story of Eris and Sona, who live under a tyrannical regime enforced by 100-foot-tall mecha robots. She’s sold the film rights to 鈥淕earbreakers鈥� and is currently working on its sequel.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Outpost: Words and Music February 1, 5:30 PM PST |聽Online Carrie Shaw, 91探花School of Music faculty member and Mellon Faculty Fellow, will premier three commissions…
Sleep cycles in people oscillate during the 29.5-day lunar cycle: In the days leading up to a full moon, people go to sleep later in the evening and sleep for shorter periods of time. The team, led by researchers at the 91探花, observed these variations in both the time of sleep onset and the duration of sleep in urban and rural settings 鈥� from Indigenous communities in northern Argentina to college students in Seattle, a city of more than 750,000. They saw the oscillations regardless of an individual鈥檚 access to electricity, though the variations are less pronounced in individuals living in urban environments.
A 91探花-led team has revisited and comprehensively reinterpreted the radio telescope observations underlying a widely reported 2019 claim that phosphine gas was present in the atmosphere of Venus. In a paper accepted to the Astrophysical Journal, they report that sulfur dioxide, a common gas in the atmosphere of Venus, is likely what was detected instead of phosphine.
A new study led by the University of Queensland and involving the 91探花 provides a glimpse into the Australia’s ancient climate and early human occupation.
A study accepted by the Planetary Science Journal shows that the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system share similar densities. That could mean they all contain roughly the same ratio of materials thought to be common to rocky planets, such as iron, oxygen, magnesium and silicon — though they appear to differ notably from Earth.
A book co-edited by Robert Pekkanen of the UW’s Jackson School of International Studies brings together top scholars to study the origins and effects of electoral systems in the United States and other democracies.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via UW-IT.聽 Meany On Screen:聽Kod艒 January 22 – 29 |聽Online Japan鈥檚 legendary Kod艒 drummers return to Meany Center virtually with KODO:聽Legacy聽and The Art of Apprenticeship.聽Drumming troupe Kod艒, whose…