February 15, 2023
Two 91探花 faculty members have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 15, are Leilani Battle, an assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and聽Jonathan J. Zhu, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics.
February 14, 2023
Four new faculty books from the 91探花 cover topics ranging from inequality鈥檚 effects on health to fad diets to former German chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 legacy on gender equality.
February 13, 2023
The 91探花 is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. students and scholars. This recognition is given to the U.S. colleges and universities that received the highest number of applicants selected for the 2022-23 Fulbright U.S. Student and Fulbright U.S. Scholar programs.
February 9, 2023
Attend lectures, performances, and more! January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |History Lecture Series: Medieval Made Modern, Kane Hall The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists鈥攁nd now moviemakers and gamers鈥攈ave long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past鈥攂ut not others–in their own image? Join Professor Emerita Robin…
Three 91探花 experts have provided quotes in response to the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday morning.
February 8, 2023
New research from Weili Ge, professor of accounting at the 91探花 Foster School of Business, found that CEOs who engage in prosocial behavior 鈥� activities that primarily help others 鈥� are more likely to make decisions that benefit people and increase company value.
Scientists at the 91探花 are pursuing multiple quantum research projects spanning from creating materials with never-before-seen physical properties to studying the 鈥渜uantum bits鈥� 鈥� or qubits (pronounced “kyu-bits”) 鈥� that make quantum computing possible. 91探花News sat down with Professor Kai-Mei Fu, one of the leaders in quantum research on campus, to talk about the potential of quantum R&D, and why it鈥檚 so important.
February 6, 2023
More than 40,000 property deeds containing racially discriminatory language have been uncovered in Western Washington by the Racial Restrictive Covenants Project. Director James Gregory, professor of history at the 91探花, and his team aren鈥檛 finished yet.
February 3, 2023
Attend lectures, performances, and more! January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |History Lecture Series: Medieval Made Modern, Kane Hall The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists鈥攁nd now moviemakers and gamers鈥攈ave long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past鈥攂ut not others–in their own image? Join Professor Emerita Robin…
Luc铆a Magis-Weinberg, a 91探花 assistant professor of psychology, explains how social media use can affect youth mental health.
Non-erupting volcanoes leak a surprisingly high amount of sulfur-containing gases. A Greenland ice core shows that volcanoes quietly release at least three times as much sulfur into the Arctic atmosphere than estimated by current climate models. Aerosols are the most uncertain aspect of current climate models, so better estimates could improve the accuracy of long-term projections.
February 2, 2023
It鈥檚 ski season and cold sunny days fill outdoor enthusiasts with delight, but ski areas usually come with stairs, crowds and an infrastructure generally built for skiers and snowboarders who ride solo and on two legs.聽聽聽
Observing this winter activity through a lens of accessibility and disability justice is the point of a new class developed by 91探花Bothell associate teaching professor Jason Naranjo. His course, 鈥淒isability & Society 鈥� A Focus on Community and the Outdoors,鈥� pairs 91探花students with skiers from Outdoors for All, an organization that provides adaptive outdoor activities for people who, for cognitive or physical reasons, can’t simply pop on skis and hit the slopes.
February 1, 2023
Christopher Tounsel, associate professor of history at the 91探花, found multiple connections between Sudan and Seattle while researching his upcoming book. The most prominent was the late Andrew Brimmer, a 91探花alum who in 1966 became the first Black member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
January 31, 2023
Four 91探花 researchers have been named AAAS Fellows, according to a Jan. 31 announcement by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 506 new fellows from around the world elected in 2022, who are recognized for their 鈥渟cientifically and socially distinguished achievements鈥� in science and engineering.
January 27, 2023
Attend lectures, performances, and more! January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |History Lecture Series: Medieval Made Modern, Kane Hall The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists鈥攁nd now moviemakers and gamers鈥攈ave long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past鈥攂ut not others–in their own image? Join Professor Emerita Robin…
January 23, 2023
A team led by researchers at the 91探花 studied how artificial intelligence could help people on the platform TalkLife, where people give each other mental health support. The researchers developed an AI system that suggested changes to participants’ responses to make them more empathetic. The best responses resulted from a collaboration between AI and people.
January 19, 2023
Start the new year with lectures, performances, and more! January 24, 7:30 PM |Behzod Abduraimov, Meany Hall Since winning the London International Piano Competition in 2009, Behzod Abduraimov鈥檚 passionate and virtuosic performances have dazzled audiences around the world. His 鈥減rodigious technique and rhapsodic flair鈥� (The New York Times) have defined his career as a recording artist, recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with major orchestras worldwide. The Tashkent, Uzbekistan native presents a program specifically crafted for his Meany debut, featuring Uzbek…
January 18, 2023
New research finds that ice-sheet-wide collapse in West Antarctica isn鈥檛 necessarily inevitable. The pace of ice loss varies according to regional differences in atmosphere and ocean circulation.
January 13, 2023
Start the new year with lectures, performances, and more! January 18, 6:30 PM | Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Part II, Kane Hall Join 91探花Professor Jacob Grumbach for the second and final lecture on the 2022 midterm elections. In this talk, he will address the election results as well as ways we can protect and improve American democracy through reforming the Constitution, updating election laws, and revitalizing the labor movement. Free | More info. January 19, 3:30 PM…
January 12, 2023
Something is amiss in the Butterfly Nebula. When a team led by astronomers at the 91探花 compared two exposures of this planetary nebula that had been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009 and 2020, they saw dramatic changes in the material within its “wings.” As the team will report on Jan. 12 at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, powerful winds are apparently driving complex alterations of material within the Butterfly Nebula, behavior not seen in planetary nebulae to date. The researchers want to understand how such activity is possible from what should be a 鈥渟puttering, largely moribund star with no remaining fuel.鈥�
January 11, 2023
On Jan. 11 at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, a team led by scientists at the 91探花 and the Center for Computational Astrophysics reported something unexpected about the distinct populations of stars that make up the Triangulum galaxy: In this satellite galaxy, a close companion of the much larger Andromeda galaxy, old and new stars occur in separate parts of the galaxy’s structure, something not seen in galaxies like our own and so far not reporter for other satellite galaxies.
January 10, 2023
91探花 astronomers were on the lookout for 鈥渟tars behaving strangely鈥� when an automated alert from pointed them to Gaia17bpp, a star that had gradually brightened over a 2 1/2-year period. But follow-up analyses indicated that Gaia17bpp wasn鈥檛 changing. Instead, the star is likely part of a rare type of binary system. Its apparent brightening was the end of a years-long eclipse by an unusual, “dusty” stellar companion.
A recent report and upcoming virtual event looks at the unequal effect of marine plastics on different communities. The international report led by UW’s Yoshitaka Ota covers topics ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on plastic pollution to a critique of Coca-Cola’s waste initiative.
January 9, 2023
Climate change will reshape ecosystems through two types of events: short-term, extreme events 鈥� or 鈥減ulses鈥� 鈥� and long-term changes, or 鈥減resses.鈥� Understanding the effects of presses and pulses is essential as conservationists and policymakers try to preserve ecosystems and safeguard biodiversity. Researchers at the 91探花 have discovered how different presses and pulses impacted Magellanic penguins 鈥� a migratory marine predator 鈥� over nearly four decades and found that, though individual presses and pulses impacted penguins in a variety of ways, both were equally important for the future survival of the penguin population. They also found that these types of climate changes, taken together, are leading to an overall population decline at their historically largest breeding site.
Save the … parasites? Analyzing 140 years of parasite abundance in fish shows dramatic declines, especially in parasites that rely on three or more host species. The decline is linked to warming ocean temperatures. Parasitic species might be in real danger, researchers warn — and that means not just fewer worms, but losses for the entire ecosystem.
January 6, 2023
Start the new year with lectures, performances, and more! January 9, 7 PM |Feelin Book Event: Bettina Judd in Conversation with Dian Million, Elliott Bay Book Company 91探花 Professors Bettina Judd and Dr. Dian Million gather in support of the former’s new book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern University Press, December 2022). In the book, the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues that Black women鈥檚 creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by…
January 4, 2023
91探花 Provost Mark Richards announced the appointment of Fredrick Muyia Nafukho as the new Vice Provost for the Office of Academic Personnel beginning Feb. 1, pending approval by the Board of Regents. Nafukho also will hold a tenured faculty position in the Department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business.
December 15, 2022
The 91探花 will welcome back Tent City 3 鈥� an organized tent-city community 鈥� to its Seattle campus for 90 days during winter quarter 2023. Move-in is scheduled to begin December 17, 2022.
Start the new year with lectures, performances, exhibitions and more.
December 14, 2022
The year 2022 saw the 91探花community coming together again with in-person classes, events and fascinating research that make videographers excited to hit 鈥渞ecord鈥� and share these scenes with you.
December 13, 2022
Three new faculty books from the 91探花 cover a variety of topics: nightlife among Black queer women, hybrid warfare and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and decolonizing climate justice.
December 12, 2022
An underwater volcanic eruption in January 2022 created ripple effects throughout the world’s atmosphere and oceans. 91探花 scientists analyzed that event to show how GPS signals could help monitor future volcanoes and tsunamis.
91探花 alumnus Daniel Guorui Chen, Class of 2022, has been named a Marshall Scholar, one of the highest honors available to college graduates in the U.S. Chen plans to attend the University of Cambridge.
A study measuring the sleep patterns of students at the 91探花 found that students fell asleep later in the evening and woke up later in the morning during winter, when daylight hours on the UW鈥檚 Seattle campus are limited and the skies are notoriously overcast. Researchers believe the students’ natural circadian clocks were being “pushed back” or delayed in winter because they were not getting enough exposure during the day to natural light, and that getting more daytime light exposure can help reverse this.
December 8, 2022
UW’s Virtual Field Geology project has many goals: to make geology field experiences accessible to more people; to document geological field sites that may be at risk from erosion or development; to offer virtual 鈥渄ry run鈥� experiences; and to allow scientific collaborators to do virtual visits to a field site together.聽While the pandemic brought new urgency to the project, its developers believe it’s part of a “new normal” for geology research and education.
In a study published Dec. 8 in Nature Astronomy, an international research team, led by Orsola De Marco of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, analyzed 10 highly detailed exposures taken by the JWST of the Southern Ring Nebula. Their calculations show the central star that ejected the expanding nebula gas was originally three times the mass of the sun, and that unseen companions shaped the nebula’s intricate features.
December 5, 2022
Researchers at the 91探花 have detected “toxic” small aggregates of a particular protein in the blood of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, as well as in individuals who showed no signs of cognitive impairment at the time the blood sample was taken, but who developed it at a later date. This blood test picks up oligomers — or small, misfolded aggregates — of the amyloid beta protein, which scientists believe triggers the development of Alzheimer’s.
December 2, 2022
Connect with the 91探花community every week through public events and exhibitions, summarized in this ArtSci Roundup.
91探花 political science professor Anthony Gill explains the social and economic value of gift-giving 鈥� and how even unwanted gifts help promote trust and build relationships.
November 29, 2022
Jack Martin has been named Vice President for Marketing and Communications at the 91探花, Senior Vice President for University Advancement Mary Gresch announced Tuesday. Martin鈥檚 appointment begins Dec. 1.