The 91探花Jackson School of International Studies presents “Trump in the World: International Implications of the Trump presidency,” a series of public lectures and discussions Tuesday afternoons through spring quarter.
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Megan Ming Francis, 91探花associate professor of political science, has been named a fellow with the Thurgood Marshall Institute. The institute is a multidisciplinary research and advocacy policy center within the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
A 91探花 study finds that women authors are significantly under-represented in high-profile academic journals.
Immigrant rights, environmental concerns and racial, class, gender and sexual justice will be the focus of a daylong conference hosted by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies March 10 at the UW.
Charles Simic, one of America鈥檚 most celebrated poets, will give the 2018 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading on April 12. Simic will be the 54th poet to appear in the series since its inception in 1964.
LaShawnDa Pittman, a 91探花assistant professor of American Ethnic Studies, is collecting stories of African-American grandmothers, past and present, on her Real Black Grandmothers website.
Quintard Taylor, 91探花professor emeritus of history and recipient of a lifetime achievement honor from Washington State Historical Society, discusses his work and this unusual moment in American history.
Engineers at the 91探花 have for the first time developed a method to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser.
Five 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, include Maya Cakmak, assistant professor of computer science and engineering; Jiun-Haw Chu, assistant professor of clean energy and physics; Arka Majumdar, assistant professor of electrical engineering and physics; Jessica Werk, assistant professor of astronomy; and Chelsea Wood, assistant professor of aquatic and fishery sciences.
Pimone Triplett, 91探花associate professor of English and creative writing, has released “Supply Chain,” her fourth book of poems.
In a paper published Feb. 9 in Science Advances, scientists at the 91探花 announced that they have successfully combined two different imaging methods 鈥� a type of lens designed for nanoscale interaction with lightwaves, along with robust computational processing 鈥� to create full-color images.
This week in the arts, experience modern dance from a fresh and youthful perspective, hear UW鈥檚 modern music ensemble and top auditioned choirs, listen to a pre-show lecture by 91探花Germanics professor, see British pianist Imogen Cooper perform her classical repertoire, and aboard the S.S. American with the Musical Theater program鈥檚 performance of 鈥淎nything Goes!鈥�
High-speed recordings of Egyptian fruit bats in flight show that instead of using a primitive form of echolocation, these animals actually use a technique recently developed by humans for surveillance and navigation.
After six months of repair and restoration 鈥� assisted by 91探花astronomer and sundial expert Woody Sullivan 鈥� Olympia’s iconic Territorial Sundial is back in place.
A team of astronomers including Eric Agol of the 91探花 has found that the seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could even have more water 鈥� which can give life a chance 鈥� than Earth itself. The research was led by Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland, and published Feb. 5 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Agol is among about two dozen co-authors. The scientists…
The Department of Energy鈥檚 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the 91探花 announced the creation of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology 鈥� or NW IMPACT 鈥� a joint research endeavor to power discoveries and advancements in materials that transform energy, telecommunications, medicine, information technology and other fields.
Archaeologists are a little like forensic investigators: They scour the remains of past societies, looking for clues in pottery, tools and bones about how people lived, and how they died. And just as detectives might re-create the scene of a crime, 91探花 archaeologists have re-created the weapons used by hunter-gatherers in the post-Ice Age Arctic some 14,000 years ago. Looking for clues as to how those early people advanced their own technology, researchers also considered what…
A biography of world-renowned oboe performer and teacher Marcel Tabuteau by the 91探花School of Music’s Laila Storch has been republished in paperback by Indiana University Press.
In a published Jan. 25 in Current Biology, 91探花 researchers report that mosquitoes can learn to associate a particular odor with an unpleasant mechanical shock akin to being swatted. As a result, they’ll avoid that scent the next time.
By developing a synthetic version of the plant hormone auxin and an engineered receptor to recognize it, 91探花 biology professor Keiko Torii and her colleagues are poised to uncover plants’ inner workings, raising the possibility of a new way to ripen fruits such as strawberries and tomatoes.
For this year’s University Faculty Lecture, 91探花 chemistry professor Michael Gelb will discuss the science behind screening newborns for treatable 鈥� but rare 鈥� genetic diseases.
A small group of fishes 鈥� possibly the world’s cleverest carnivorous grazers 鈥� feeds on the scales of other fish in the tropics. A team led by biologists at the 91探花’s Friday Harbor Laboratories is trying to understand these scale-feeding fish and how this odd diet influences their body evolution and behavior.
Touch is the first of the five senses to develop, yet scientists know far less about the baby鈥檚 brain response to touch than to, say, the sight of mom’s face, or the sound of her voice. Now, through the use of safe, new brain imaging techniques, 91探花 researchers provide one of the first looks inside the infant’s brain to show where the sense of touch is processed 鈥� not just when a baby feels a touch to…
This week in the arts, experience a modern portrayal of a classic Greek Tragedy, see the annual Faculty Dance Concert featuring new collaborations with students and guest artists, hear an internationally renowned classical vocalist showcase her work with 91探花students, and watch dancers tell a story of resilience in the first performance of an exciting trilogy.
91探花astronomers Brett Morris and James Davenport assisted in new research on “Tabby’s Star,” named for Louisiana State University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian.
This week in the arts, listen to a duo performance of piano professors, hear the internationally acclaimed Tak谩cs String Quartet, promising young pianist Scott Cuellar, immerse yourself in the post-apocalyptic world of Trojan Women: A Love Story, and attend a performance by Grammy and Emmy Award Winning violinist Itzhak Perlman.
When “American Sabor” opened at what was then the Experience Music Project a decade ago, its 91探花 creators saw it as a chance to celebrate the extensive Latino contribution to popular music. It was a product of years of interviews and research, and an often challenging exercise in collaboration and presentation. But that was just the beginning for Marisol Berr铆os-Miranda and Shannon Dudley, both ethnomusicologists in the 91探花School of Music, and Michelle Habell-Pall谩n, a professor in…
An essay by Laurie Marhoefer, 91探花assistant professor of history, has been named the most memorable of the year 2017 by the editors and readers of The Conversation US.
The Anthropocene epoch 鈥� the proposed name for this time of significant human effect on the planet and its systems 鈥� represents a new context in which to study literature. A new book of essays co-edited by Jesse Oak Taylor, 91探花associate professor of English, argues that literary studies, in turn, also can help us better understand the Anthropocene.
Alongside the political polarization that has permeated seemingly every issue in American life, there is a similar dichotomy in religion.On one side are those who suggest religion is dying, that’s it’s irrelevant, a force for ill and oppression, explains 91探花 sociology professor Steve Pfaff. On the other are those who say religion is under attack, that the quest for freedom and diversity has sullied the culture and undermined the integrity of faith. And into this debate Pfaff decided…
Scientists at the 91探花 show for the first time that the complex distribution of molecules within a membrane of a living yeast cell arises through demixing.
Kim Nasmyth, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Oxford and former postdoctoral researcher at the 91探花, is one of five recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Nasmyth and other prize recipients were honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation at a ceremony December 3 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
A cosmic photobomb found as a background object in images of the nearby Andromeda galaxy has revealed what could be the most tightly coupled pair of supermassive black holes ever seen.
The CleanTech Alliance has presented the 91探花 with the organization’s 2017 CleanTech Achievement Award. The honor recognizes the UW’s dedication to research and development of transformative clean energy technologies, facilities, pipelines for startups and industry partnerships. The award was announced on Nov. 8 at the annual meeting and 10th anniversary of the CleanTech Alliance, a Seattle-based consortium of more than 300 businesses and interest groups across six U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The organization cited the UW’s…
Think, for a moment, about the last time you were out in nature. Were you in a city park? At a campground? On the beach? In the mountains? Now consider: What was this place like in your parents鈥� time? Your grandparents鈥�? In many cases, the parks, beaches and campgrounds of today are surrounded by more development, or are themselves more developed, than they were decades ago. But to you, they still feel like nature. If we just try…
The first astronomers had a limited toolkit: their eyes. They could only observe those stars, planets and celestial events bright enough to pick up unassisted. But today’s astronomers use increasingly sensitive and sophisticated instruments to view and track a bevy of cosmic wonders, including objects and events that were too dim or distant for their sky-gazing forebears. On Nov. 14, scientists with the California Institute of Technology, the 91探花 and eight additional partner institutions, announced that the Zwicky…
An unseasonably warm, dry summer on Mount Rainier in 2015 caused subalpine wildflowers to change their bloom times and form ‘reassembled’ communities, with unknown consequences for species interactions among wildflowers, pollinators and other animals.
Frances McCue, a senior lecturer in the 91探花Department of English, has a new book of poetry out, “Timber Curtain,” published by Seattle’s Chin Music Press.
There is little debate over the link between air pollution and the human respiratory system: Research shows that dirty air can impair breathing and aggravate various lung diseases. Other potential effects are being investigated, too, as scientists examine connections between toxic air and obesity, diabetes and dementia. Now add to that list psychological distress, which 91探花 researchers have found is also associated with air pollution. The higher the level of particulates in the air, the UW-led study…
Before a border wall became a budget bargaining chip, before the presidential pardon of a controversial sheriff and before federal policies were announced on social media, there was Arizona Senate Bill 1070, the 鈥渟how me your papers鈥� law. And of course, there was Twitter. To Ren茅 D. Flores, an assistant professor of sociology at the 91探花, Twitter is a trove of insight into people鈥檚 beliefs and their willingness to express them. By analyzing tweets in the months…