The 91探花’s annual Engineering Lecture Series will feature research with potential to transform brain therapeutics from infancy to late adulthood.
October 10, 2022
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October 7, 2022
ArtSci Roundup: Indigenous Peoples’ Day on-air, Chamber Dance Company, and more
Connect with the 91探花community every week through public events and exhibitions, summarized in this ArtSci Roundup.
October 6, 2022
Chamber Dance Company shifts focus, reimagines repertoire in return to stage
Comprised of 91探花 graduate students, the Chamber Dance Company works to perform, record and archive dance works of artistic and historical significance. This year, the company will exclusively perform contemporary works created within the last 15 years.
October 5, 2022
New faculty books: Black womanhood and corporate branding, reexamining Indigenous earthworks and more
Black womanhood and corporate branding, Indigenous mound building and volunteering for the Peace Corps are among the subjects of recent and upcoming books by 91探花 faculty.
October 3, 2022
91探花law professor discusses tech company liability cases before US Supreme Court
91探花law professor Eric Schnapper explains two cases that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear — cases on tech companies’ liability that he will argue before the court this winter.
Study suggests La Ni帽a winters could keep on coming
Forecasters are predicting a 鈥渢hree-peat La Ni帽a鈥� this year. This will be the third winter in a row that the Pacific Ocean has been in a La Ni帽a cycle, something that鈥檚 happened only twice before in records going back to 1950. A new study of temperature patterns in the tropical Pacific Ocean suggests that climate change is, in the short term, favoring La Ni帽as.
October 2, 2022
91探花statements on weekend violence in the University District
Early Sunday morning, the 91探花 used the 91探花Alert system to warn the Seattle campus community about a shooting that occurred near NE 43rd Street and University Way NE just after 1 a.m. Four 91探花students were injured and transported to Harborview Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries. 91探花President Ana Mari Cauce made the following statement in response to the shooting.
September 30, 2022
ArtSci Roundup: Cuarteto Latinoamericano concert, Sasha Senderovich book launch, Gabriel Kahane concert, and more
Connect with the 91探花community every week through public events and exhibitions, summarized in this ArtSci Roundup.
September 29, 2022
International field course held in Indonesia and led by 91探花professor ends after 30 years
Randall Kyes established the International Field Study Program-Indonesia at the UW. The month-long study abroad program provided field-based educational and research opportunities for students from the UW, Indonesia and other participating countries.
September 28, 2022
91探花expert on tropical storms discusses Hurricane Ian
Shuyi Chen, a 91探花professor of atmospheric sciences, was traveling to a conference in Boston as Hurricane Ian approached the Gulf of Mexico. During breaks at the conference, she provided her thoughts on the closely watched catastrophic storm system that made landfall in Florida on Sept. 28. Q: What are your thoughts on Hurricane Ian? How does it compare to other storms? See also: “UW鈥檚 Shuyi Chen on hurricane science, forecasting and the 2017 hurricane season“ Shuyi Chen: Each hurricane…
UW-developed wave sensors deployed to improve hurricane forecasts
Researchers dropped technology developed at the 91探花 off the coast of Florida this week to measure ocean waves in the path of Hurricane Ian. The test is one part of a broad effort to improve forecasts for these fast-moving and deadly systems.
September 27, 2022
Advancing safety at UW, in the community and beyond
As the academic year gets underway, the 91探花鈥檚 public campuses are again bustling and busy with students, faculty, staff and visitors. While the focus is on academics, research, learning and building community, on any given day, there may be safety challenges and individuals who feel unsafe for any number of reasons.
September 26, 2022
UW鈥檚 incoming class, one of the university鈥檚 largest and most diverse, welcomed at New Student Convocation
The 91探花 on Sunday held its 39th annual New Student Convocation, which returned to Alaska Airlines Arena, Hec Edmundson Pavilion, for the first time since 2019.
Heat-related mortality risk is widespread across Washington state, study shows
Heat-related deaths occur across Washington state, even in regions with typically milder climates. This is the most extensive study yet of heat-related mortality in Washington state, and the first to look beyond the major population to and include rural areas. Researchers used statistical methods to uncover 鈥渉idden鈥� deaths that may have listed something else, like illness or a chronic disease, as the primary cause.
91探花joins industry-academia alliance to accelerate research in neuroscience
The 91探花 has joined the Alliance for Therapies in Neuroscience (ATN), a long-term research partnership between academia and industry geared to transform the fight against brain diseases and disorders of the central nervous system. Launched in 2021 by the University of California, San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Genentech 鈥� a member of the Roche group 鈥� and Roche Holding AG, the ATN seeks to accelerate the development of new therapies for a broad range of brain and central nervous system conditions.
September 23, 2022
ArtSci Roundup: Kicking the school year off with the arts
A weekly roundup of various arts-focused events for the 91探花community.
September 22, 2022
Deepest scientific ocean drilling effort sheds light on Japan鈥檚 next 鈥榖ig one鈥�
A 2018 expedition that drilled farther into the seafloor than ever before — almost 2 miles — sought to take measurements of stress as close as possible to a tectonic fault off the coast of Japan. Surprisingly, the researchers found little built-up tectonic stress. The findings could help to better understand earthquakes in subduction zones around the world.
91探花systems experts put health of kids at the center as King County seeks to reach 鈥榸ero youth detention鈥�
As King County seeks to reach its goal of 鈥渮ero youth detention鈥� 鈥� ultimately eliminating the practice of juvenile detention in the county 鈥�91探花 researchers are working to help address major systemic challenges in how young people engage with health care. With a strategic plan to close the juvenile detention center by 2025, King County needs an increasingly robust system to ensure youth are getting consistent and accessible services, including health care. This is especially true upon…
September 21, 2022
Video: 91探花welcomes students back to campus with move-in days
The 91探花鈥檚 campus again is bustling as students began moving into residence halls on Tuesday and will participate in annual fall activities for incoming undergraduates. About 10,000 students are expected to move into campus housing this week.
New Global and Regional Studies major offers undergraduates a customizable window on the world
Global and Regional Studies, a new major in the 91探花 Jackson School of International Studies, offers more flexible course options, allows undergraduates focus on a particular geographic region and theme and provides more choices for the capstone experience.
September 19, 2022
A smartphone’s camera and flash could help people measure blood oxygen levels at home
In a proof-of-principle study, 91探花 and University of California San Diego researchers have shown that smartphones are capable of detecting blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70%. This is the lowest value that pulse oximeters should be able to measure, as recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
September 15, 2022
91探花breaks ground on $102 million Interdisciplinary Engineering Building
Wearing purple hard hats and using gold-plated shovels, officials from the 91探花 broke ground Thursday on a new, $102 million Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to be constructed along Stevens Way east of the Husky Union Building. Once complete, the state-of-the-art 70,000-square-foot building will be an example of a student-focused learning facility backed by both public and private investments. The project aims to fuel economic growth and create a pipeline of future, local engineering talent.
New direction for 91探花Botanic Gardens focuses on diversity, equity and inclusion
New Directions in Public Gardens, a speaker series created by the 91探花 Botanic Gardens, will conclude in September with the final speaker and a town hall. Past guests addressed topics like engaging with local Indigenous populations and opportunities for public land to support urban food systems and engage with BIPOC communities.
September 13, 2022
Q&A: 91探花researchers develop a reactor that can destroy ‘forever chemicals’
91探花researchers have created a reactor that can completely break down hard-to-destroy chemicals.
September 9, 2022
Pandemic federal programs helped kids in need get access to 1.5 billion meals every month
When schools closed during the first year of the pandemic, an immediate and potentially devastating problem surfaced: How would millions of children in struggling families get the school meals many of them depended on? The U.S. Congress responded by authorizing the Department of Agriculture to roll out two major programs. It launched the 鈥済rab and go school meals,鈥� which helped schools provide prepared meals for off-site consumption and distributed funding for the state-operated Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) program, which gave…
September 8, 2022
91探花Board of Regents votes to exit direct fossil fuel investments by 2027
The 91探花 Board of Regents on Thursday approved a resolution to begin exiting all direct investments in fossil-fuel companies with the goal of complete divestiture by Fiscal Year 2027. The resolution includes a commitment not to renew indirect investments in funds primarily focusing on fossil-fuel extraction or reserves. Both commitments include allowances for firms contributing to the transition to sustainable energy.
September 7, 2022
These female hummingbirds evolved to look like males 鈥� apparently to evade aggression
1 in 5 adult female white-necked jacobin hummingbirds look like males. New research from the 91探花 shows that this is a rare case of “deceptive mimicry” within a species: Females with male-like plumage are trying to pass themselves off as males, and as a result receive a benefit in the form of reduced aggression from males.
August 29, 2022
Black-owned restaurants disproportionately impacted during pandemic
A new study led by the 91探花 uses cellphone location data to estimate the number of visits to Black-owned restaurants in 20 U.S. cities during the first year of the pandemic. The study finds that despite the “Black-owned” labelling campaign launched by companies such as Yelp, the number of visits to Black-owned restaurants dropped off after an initial spike and was inconsistent around the country.
August 25, 2022
鈥楧angerous鈥� and 鈥榚xtremely dangerous鈥� heat stress to become more common by 2100
A new study projects the number of days with “dangerous” and “extremely dangerous” mixtures of heat and humidity by the end of this century. Even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius, results show that deadly heat waves will become much more common in the mid-latitudes, and many tropical regions will experience “dangerous” heat for about half the year.
August 23, 2022
Beach trash accumulates in predictable patterns on Washington and Oregon shores
Volunteers spent thousands of hours recording trash on beaches in Washington and Oregon to show that certain beaches, and certain areas of a single beach, are 鈥渟ticky zones鈥� that accumulate litter. Finding patterns for where litter lands could help to better prevent and remove trash in the marine environment.
August 17, 2022
New 91探花Photonic Sensing Facility will use fiber-optic cables for seismic sensing, glaciology and more
A 91探花 pilot project is exploring the use of fiber-optic sensing for seismology, glaciology, and even urban monitoring. Funded in part with a $473,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, a nonprofit based in Vancouver, Washington, the new 91探花Photonic Sensing Facility will use photons traveling through a fiber-optic cable to detect ground motions as small as 1 nanometer.
August 15, 2022
91探花to host college students for NASA-funded lunar rover challenge
The 91探花 received a nearly $500,000 grant to run one of NASA鈥檚 Artemis Student Challenges in which participants turn a model lunar lava tube into a habitat suitable for housing humans on the moon or Mars.
Global ranking: 91探花is No. 17 in the world
The 91探花 is No. 17 in the world 鈥� No. 3 among U.S. public universities 鈥� on the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities, released today.
August 12, 2022
New faculty books: How your brain works, cycling around the world and more
Recent and upcoming books from 91探花 faculty include those from the Jackson School of International Studies, the Department of Psychology and the Runstad Department of Real Estate.
August 11, 2022
Bird behavior influenced by human activity during COVID-19 lockdowns
For birds that inhabit developed areas of the Pacific Northwest, the reduction in noise and commotion from COVID-19 lockdowns may have allowed them to use a wider range of habitats in cities, a new 91探花 study has found.
August 8, 2022
Q&A: Story collection from 91探花professor tackles messy emotions of domestic relationships
Maya Sonenberg, professor of English at the 91探花, highlights common feelings that are often silenced due to shame and societal expectations in her new short story collection, “Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters.”
August 5, 2022
New study calculates retreat of glacier edges in Alaska鈥檚 Kenai Fjords National Park
As glaciers worldwide retreat due to climate change, managers of national parks need to know what鈥檚 on the horizon to prepare for the future. A new study from the 91探花 and the National Park Service measures 38 years of change for glaciers in Kenai Fjords National Park south of Anchorage. The study, published Aug. 5 in The Journal of Glaciology, finds that 13 of the 19 glaciers show substantial retreat, four are relatively stable, and two have advanced. It also finds trends in which glacier types are disappearing fastest.
August 4, 2022
91探花to construct new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, expanding contemporary educational spaces for students
The 91探花 will break ground this fall on a new, $90 million Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, thanks in part to a $10 million donation from Boeing. Once complete, the state-of-the-art building will be a leading example of a student-focused learning facility backed by both public and private investments. The state of Washington has also dedicated $50 million to support the project that aims to fuel economic growth and create a pipeline of future, local engineering talent.
August 2, 2022
Popular map for exploring environmental health disparities, vulnerabilities in Washington gets an update
Since it first launched in 2019, Washington state鈥檚 Environmental Health Disparities Map has been used to help decisionmakers and government agencies engage with overburdened communities to clean up contamination, improve buildings and electric grids, plant trees and many other projects. Using a complex matrix of data, this open-access, interactive map ranks Washington鈥檚 nearly 1,500 U.S. census tracts by health risks due to environmental degradation and economic and health disparities. It acts as a guide for state agencies and the legislature…
July 28, 2022
The 91探花鈥檚 three campuses join the Common App
The Seattle campus of the 91探花, 91探花Bothell, and 91探花Tacoma are pleased to announce that they have joined the Common App. The Common App is a college application platform used by over 900 universities, including several Washington colleges and universities.