Jiun-Haw Chu, a 91探花 assistant professor of physics and faculty member at the UW’s Clean Energy Institute, has been named a 2018 fellow by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for his research on quantum materials 鈥� substances that exhibit novel combinations of quantum-mechanical properties that could one day transform information technology.
As the discipline of American Indian Studies approaches its 50th year at the 91探花, a new research center is in the works: the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, which is supported by multiple colleges and schools.
A study led by the 91探花 is the first large-scale trial of hundreds of PTSD patients, including veterans and survivors of sexual assault, to measure whether patient preference in the course of treatment impacts the effectiveness of both cognitive behavioral therapy and use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a type of antidepressant often prescribed for PTSD.
Today, Britain is not known as a land of camps, but through much of the 20th century 鈥� from after World War I to the 1980s 鈥� 聽the country was home to dozens of refugee camps housing thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians and Vietnamese. As 91探花 history professor Jordanna Bailkin writes in her latest book, these camps “were never only for refugees.” They shared such spaces with “Britons who had been displaced by…
This week in the arts, 91探花faculty take us into the community, from the Seattle Art Museum to the Royal Room. There will be music, art history lectures, drama, and more! SAM Talks: Peacock in the Desert Discussion October 18, 7:00 pm | Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue, Seattle Dr. Karni Singh Jasol, Director of the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur, and Dr. Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History at 91探花, discuss the themes and works on…
This week in the arts, attend the 2018 Chamber Dance Concert, see the works by ten second year MFA students, attend Cello faculty artist-in-residence S忙unn Thorsteinsd贸ttir’s recital, and more. Chamber Dance Company October 11 to 14 | Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater For its 28th season, the Chamber Dance Company received a聽National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works聽grant to present choreography by Harald Kreutzberg (1902-1968). The 2018 concert,聽Unspoken, addresses matters that are expressed most poignantly with movement鈥撯�搕hese voiceless聽works speak fully and…
Pablo Garc铆a Borboroglu, president of the Global Penguin Society and a 91探花affiliate associate professor of biology, has won the Whitley Gold Award and the National Geographic/Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation, as well as accolades from the Argentine National Congress, for his research and advocacy for penguin conservation.
A new book by 91探花 history professor George Behlmer seeks to improve understanding of the British colonial era by “reconsidering the conduct of islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them.”
Kristina Olson, 91探花 associate professor of psychology, has been named one of the 2018 MacArthur Fellows. The Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation comes with a $625,000 stipend, commonly known as the 鈥済enius grant,鈥� for recipients to use as they see fit.
On a small island in Indonesia, 91探花 researchers found evidence of nutmeg as residue on ceramic potsherds and is estimated to be 3,500 years old 鈥� about 2,000 years older than the previously known use of the spice.
When levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their leaves. Now two 91探花 scientists have shown that this reaction by plants will actually worsen climate change by making the global “carbon sink” contributed by plants was less productive.
For more than 2 million years, the native forests on the Pacific islands of Guam and Rota were home to several thousand crows, members of a species found nowhere else on Earth. But over the last 60 years, the Mariana crow 鈥� called the Aga in the Chamorro language 鈥� has completely disappeared from the island of Guam and rapidly declined on neighboring Rota. Today there are only about 175 Aga left in the wild. To ensure the survival…
This week in the arts, celebrate Dawg Daze with the Meany Center and ArtsUW, visit the Henry Art Gallery to see Muse, and more. LAST WEEK | Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs t锚te-脿-t锚te Last day is September 30 | Henry Art Gallery “As the exhibition title suggests, MUSE is a visual love letter to the people who inspire her鈥攂oth the women who appear as her subjects and the multigenerational roster of other artists who constitute her artistic community.” — Emily Pothast,…
A 91探花study found that mindfulness lessons, offered to parents at two early childhood centers, helped adults learn how to manage their emotions and behaviors while supporting their child鈥檚 development.
David Shields, 91探花professor of English, discusses his latest book, “Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention.”
For angiosperms 鈥� or flowering plants 鈥� one of the most important decisions facing them each year is when to flower. It is no trivial undertaking. To flower, they must cease vegetative growth and commit to making those energetically expensive reproductive structures that will bring about the next generation. Knowledge of this process at the cellular level is critical for understanding how plants allocate resources and produce the components we care most about 鈥� including the grains, tubers, leaves, nuts…
A 91探花 study finds that 18-month-old toddlers conduct a form of cost-benefit analysis, making choices based on how much effort they want to expend, or on whether they like the people involved.
The international trade in elephant ivory has been illegal since 1989, yet African elephant numbers continue to decline. In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature cited ivory poaching as a primary reason for a staggering loss of about 111,000 elephants between 2005 and 2015 鈥� leaving their total numbers at an estimated 415,000. For media Download soundbites, b-roll and images In a paper published Sept. 19 in the journal Science Advances, an international team led by scientists at…
Margaret O’Mara, 91探花professor of history, explores the impact of a December 1968 computer presentation that came to be called “the mother of all demos” in an essay and podcast from the news website The Conversation.
When Tony Greenwald and his colleagues developed the online Implicit Association Test two decades ago, it enjoyed quick success in the pre-laptop, pre-smartphone, nascent Internet world, with some 45,000 participants in the first month. The test, which requires classifying words and images rapidly according to their meanings, captures unconscious biases toward 鈥� depending on the test version 鈥� race, gender, age and dozens of other traits and preferences. Since its debut in 1998, the test has been taken online more…
The National Science Foundation announced on Sept. 11 that it is awarding grants totaling $8.5 million to 19 collaborative projects at 23 universities for the study of complex and entrenched problems in data science. Three of these projects will be based at the 91探花 and led by researchers in the College of Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences.
The 91探花 today opened the doors to a new Life Sciences Building that will transform learning, teaching and research for generations.
The $171 million Life Sciences complex includes seven floors and 207,000 square feet that encourages and makes possible team-oriented science. Designed by Perkins+Will and built by Skanska, the building encompasses a 187,000-square-foot research and teaching facility and a 20,000-square-foot research greenhouse with 91探花plant collections.
On Sept. 4 the National Science Foundation announced the creation of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics, or IRIS-HEP. The institute is a coalition of 17 research institutions, including the 91探花, and will receive $25 million from the NSF over five years.
A study by the 91探花 and Cornell University shows that the risk of being killed by police, relative to white men, is 3.2 to 3.5 times higher for black men, and between 1.4 and 1.7 times higher for Latino men.
91探花 researchers argue that further study of why infants persist, and to what end, may shed new light on how they learn and what the future yields.
A new UW-led study shows that males and female process visual motion differently, a variation that may be attributable to a neural regulatory process that is different in the male brain.
In a paper published online July 23 in the journal Nature, a UW-led research team reports that the 2-D form of tungsten ditelluride can undergo “ferroelectric switching.” Materials with ferroelectric properties can have applications in memory storage, capacitors, RFID card technologies and even medical sensors 鈥� and tungsten ditelluride is the first exfoliated 2-D material known to undergo ferroelectric switching.
When young children talk to voice-activated technologies, the devices don’t always respond in a helpful way. A new 91探花 study suggests that these interfaces could be designed to be more responsive 鈥� repeating or prompting the user, for example 鈥� and be more useful to more people.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an expected $10.75 million, four-year grant to the 91探花, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and other partner institutions for a new interdisciplinary research center to define the enigmatic rules that govern how molecular-scale building blocks assemble into ordered structures and give rise to complex hierarchical materials.
Recent notable books by 91探花 authors tell of the struggle to break free of racism in higher education, taking an “urban diary” approach to documenting city life and more.
In a paper published online this spring in the journal Nature Photonics, scientists at the 91探花 report that a prototype semiconductor thin-film has performed even better than today鈥檚 best solar cell materials at emitting light.
New research suggests the Atlantic Ocean is transitioning back to its slower phase, which means average global air temperatures will go back to rising more quickly.
Sapna Cheryan, a 91探花 associate professor of psychology, has spent her career researching the stereotypes surrounding STEM. Now she’s serving on Mattel’s Barbie Global Advisory Council, lending her expertise as the company looks ahead to the toy’s future.
Earth鈥檚 oxygen levels rose and fell more than once hundreds of millions of years before the planetwide success of the Great Oxidation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, new research from the 91探花 shows.
A typically developing 2-month-old baby can make cooing sounds, suck on her hand to calm down and smile at people. At that age, the mouth is the primary focus: Such young infants aren鈥檛 yet reaching for objects with their hands or using their feet to get around, so the lips 鈥� for eating, pacifying and communicating 鈥� multitask. And at the same time, new research reveals a special neural signature associated with touching the baby鈥檚 lips, an indicator of…
In a paper published April 5 in the journal Endangered Species Research, scientists at the 91探花 announced that, for a Gal谩pagos penguin, beak size is nearly a perfect indicator of whether a bird is male or female.
Researchers with the UW-led Virtual Planetary Laboratory are central to a group of papers published by NASA researchers today in the journal Astrobiology outlining the history 鈥� and suggesting the future 鈥� of the search for life on exoplanets, or those orbiting stars other than the sun.
For the millions of Americans who work 鈥渘onstandard鈥� shifts 鈥� evenings, nights or with rotating days off 鈥� the schedule can be especially challenging with children at home. But a new study from the 91探花 finds that consistent hours, at whatever time of day, can give families flexibility and in some cases, improve children鈥檚 behavior. The study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Family Issues, focuses on two-parent families in which one parent…
A new analysis suggests the value of structured research programs for undergraduates extends to society as a whole by encouraging participants to seek advanced degrees in scientific and technological fields.
Radhika Govindrajan’s book “Animal Intimacies” started attracting attention before it was even available to readers. A 91探花 assistant professor of anthropology since 2015, Govindrajan specializes in animal studies, and in the politics and culture of the Central Himalayas, where much of the research for this book was conducted. “Animal Intimacies,” published in May 2018 by University of Chicago Press, recounts the varying relationships people have with animals 鈥� as companions, as sources of food and as performers of…