May 31, 2022
A novel algorithm developed by 91探花 researchers to discover asteroids in the solar system has proved its mettle. The first candidate asteroids identified by the algorithm 鈥� known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR 鈥� have been confirmed by the International Astronomical Union鈥檚 Minor Planet Center, according to a May 31 announcement by the B612 Foundation.
May 27, 2022
Opioid use disorder is an addiction crisis in the United States that has become increasingly lethal during the COVID-19 pandemic. To preserve access to life-saving treatment during the pandemic, federal drug agencies loosened requirements on physicians for treating these patients, including moving patient evaluations away from in-person exams to telemedicine. This federal policy change focused primarily on buprenorphine, a highly effective treatment for opioid use disorder and one that is much less onerous and stigmatizing than methadone, the other most…
May 26, 2022
With the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, 91探花students modified a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer to use electrification, advanced propulsion systems and automated vehicle technology. It鈥檚 an opportunity for students 鈥� across four years 鈥� to take a car from design to a consumer-ready product.
In 2016, Alexes Harris was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer. But a search for a bone marrow donor turned up only five matches, and none ended up being a donor. People of color are underrepresented in the bone marrow registry; according to Be The Match, the nation鈥檚 largest bone marrow registry, white people have a 79% chance of finding a match. But a Black person’s potential match is only 29%, and Asian and Latinx people both have about a 47% chance. People of Native American ancestry have a 60% chance of finding a match.
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91探花community every week! DinoFest June 5, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Burke Museum Put on your pith helmets and head to the home of Washington鈥檚 only dinosaur discovery for the Burke Museum鈥檚 annual festival of fossils. During this museum-wide event, hear about groundbreaking research from Burke and 91探花scientists; enjoy hundreds of specimens from the Burke鈥檚 collection; and celebrate all things fossilized with fossil digs, ancient animal identification, microfossil sorting,…
A new study from Alan Griffith, assistant professor of economics at the 91探花, shows that Seattle’s democracy voucher program has increased the number of voters donating to city elections and the number of candidates in those elections.
May 24, 2022
Forest fire smoke can make you sick, and we’re experiencing more them. In terms of public health, it seems logical to reduce forest fires to limit unhealthy air pollution, but forest managers are increasingly seeing prescribed burning as an essential tool to reduce explosive wildfires. How should we plan to deal with the impacts of these fires?
May 23, 2022
A study by the University of California, Irvine, and the 91探花 shows how social connectedness in San Francisco neighborhoods was associated with COVID-19 infection rates.
Researchers at the 91探花 wondered if people enter a state of dissociation when surfing social media, and if that explains why users might feel out of control after spending so much time on their favorite app.
May 20, 2022
The annual 91探花 Fitness Day returns as an in-person event on Monday, May 23. This year鈥檚 Fitness Day includes a fundraising and registration goal for Be The Match, the nation鈥檚 largest marrow-donor registry.
May 19, 2022
Tony Greenwald, emeritus professor of psychology at the 91探花 and creator of the Implicit Association Test, explains how public health strategies can help address unintended discrimination.
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91探花community every week! Gospel Choir May 23, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice gospel choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions of the Gospel tradition. $10 | Buy tickets & more info Astronomy on Tap: Technology in Earth Orbit and Beyond May 25, 8:00 PM | Bickersons Brewhouse First, Dr. Meredith Rawls, a research scientist at the 91探花Department of Astronomy, will talk about her…
May 17, 2022
On May 20, faculty experts from the 91探花 Foster School of Business will share their perspectives and research in a series of short talks: 鈥淔oster Insights: Creating Better Workplaces and Better Lives.鈥�
The 25th annual 91探花 Undergraduate Research Symposium returns this year on May 20 with a hybrid format including both online and in-person presentations, following two years of online only events due to the COVID pandemic.
May 13, 2022
The seventh annual Center for Communication, Difference and Equity Conference, 鈥淩esistance Through Resilience,鈥� will be held in collaboration with the 91探花 Resilience Lab.
May 12, 2022
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91探花community every week! Christina Fiig: Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis May 17, 12:00 PM | Online Join the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center to continue the Talking Gender in the EU Lecture Series, with Christina Fiig on “EU Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis,” Christina Fiig聽is an Associate Professor at the School of Culture and Society, Section for…
Robert Pekkanen, 91探花 professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, teaches Crisis Negotiation. The centerpiece of the course is the International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE), a negotiation simulation where students act as diplomatic teams facing a real-world crisis scenario.
After a mother octopus lays a clutch of eggs, she quits eating and wastes away; by the time the eggs hatch, she is dead. Some females in captivity even seem to speed up this process intentionally, mutilating themselves and twisting their arms into a tangled mess. The source of this bizarre maternal behavior seems to be the optic gland, an organ similar to the pituitary gland in mammals. For years, just how this gland triggered the gruesome death spiral was unclear. But in a new study published May 12 in Current Biology, researchers from the 91探花, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago show that the optic gland in maternal octopuses undergoes a massive shift in cholesterol metabolism, resulting in dramatic changes in the steroid hormones produced. Alterations in cholesterol metabolism in other animals, including humans, can have serious consequences on longevity and behavior, and the team believes this reveals important similarities in the functions of these steroids across the animal kingdom 鈥� in soft-bodied cephalopods and vertebrates alike.
A 91探花 study of adult smokers finds that those who switch to vaping some or all of the time may adopt other healthy behaviors.
May 11, 2022
Recent recognition of the聽 includes the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring for Joyce Yen, the election of J. Nathan Kutz as a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics fellow and the recognition of Alexina Kublu with the 2022 Inuit Language Recognition Award.
May 9, 2022
In his new book, 91探花 history professor Moon-Ho Jung traces how Asian radicals organized and confronted the U.S. empire and were labeled criminally seditious as a result.
May 7, 2022
All forest fire smoke is bad for people, but not all fires in forests are bad. This is the conundrum faced by experts in forest management and public health: Climate change and decades of fire suppression that have increased fuels are contributing to larger and more intense wildfires and, in order to improve forest health and reduce these explosive fires, prescribed and managed fire is necessary. Video: Experts collaborate to troubleshoot necessary fires and harmful smoke Journalists: Download soundbites…
May 6, 2022
Your immune system鈥檚 ability to combat COVID-19, like any infection, largely depends on its ability to replicate the immune cells effective at destroying the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease. These cloned immune cells cannot be infinitely created, and a key hypothesis of a new 91探花 study is that the body鈥檚 ability to create these cloned cells falls off significantly in old age. According to a model created by 91探花research professor James Anderson, this genetically predetermined limit…
Four faculty members at the 91探花 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2022: Elizabeth Buffalo, professor and chair of physiology and biophysics; Joseph Mougous, professor of microbiology; Dr. Jay Shendure, professor of genome sciences; and James Truman, professor emeritus of biology.
May 5, 2022
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91探花community every week! Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture: Japanese Propaganda and the Power of Love: Mobilizing the Wartime Empire May 9, 6:30 PM | Kane Hall 225 Historians and cultural critics often identify 鈥渆xploiting hate鈥� as the primary affective mode of propaganda. Particularly in the context of war, manufacturing a clear division in militarist propaganda between valorous 鈥渦s鈥� and demonized 鈥渢hem鈥� seems axiomatic. An examination of kamishibai (literally, paper theater), one…
91探花 professors Christoph Giebel, Vicente Rafael and Ileana M. Rodr铆guez-Silva will participate in a discussion on about a memorial plaque that was recently removed from Volunteer Park due to concerns about its accuracy.
May 4, 2022
The flashing of a nearby star drew the attention of a team of astronomers, who discovered that it is part of a rare and mysterious system. As they report in a paper published May 4 in Nature, the stellar oddity appears to be a 鈥渂lack widow binary鈥� 鈥� a type of system consisting of a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar, that is circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star, as its arachnid namesake does to its mate.
May 3, 2022
Sophia Jord谩n Wallace, associate professor of political science at the 91探花, explains the implications the draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn the constitutional right to an abortion would have on democracy, abortion rights and the midterm elections.
A planetary scientist worked with engineers to measure the physical limits of a liquid for salty water under high pressure. Results suggest where robotic missions should look for extraterrestrial life on the ice-covered oceans of Jupiter鈥檚 moon Europa and Saturn鈥檚 moon Titan.
Two 91探花 nursing and midwife experts in maternal health have provided the following quotes on the issue of restricting abortion or making it illegal 鈥� seen as increasingly likely due to the Supreme Court draft opinion, leaked to Politico on Monday. Molly Altman is an assistant professor in the 91探花School of Nursing and nurse midwife, whose scientific research focuses on respectful and equitable care during pregnancy and childbirth. Meghan Eagen-Torkko is associate professor and Director of Nursing…
As the most serious type of skin cancer, a melanoma diagnosis carries emotional, financial and medical consequences. That鈥檚 why recent studies finding that there is an overdiagnosis of melanoma are a significant cause for concern. 鈥淥verdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will not harm a person in their lifetime. If melanoma is being overdiagnosed, it means that too many people are getting the scary news that they have cancer, and receiving and paying for unnecessary treatment,鈥� said Kathleen Kerr,…
April 29, 2022
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91探花community every week! Carving out a brave space: Courage in art May 3, 7:00 PM | HUB Lyceum & Online 鈥淗ave something to say. Be brave enough to say it. Use your art to change the world.鈥� 91探花Drama Professor and Head of Directing & Playwriting Valerie Curtis-Newton lives by these words in her directing and teaching career. She urges artists to take risks and inspires audiences to see the world…
April 28, 2022
If emissions from greenhouse gases continue, species losses from warming and oxygen depletion of ocean waters could eclipse all other human stressors on marine species by around 2100. Tropical waters would experience the greatest loss of biodiversity, while polar species are at the highest聽risk of extinction
91探花 history professor Margaret O’Mara says Elon Musk鈥檚 acquisition of Twitter has renewed debate about freedom of online speech, online content moderation and the power of billionaires to shape public conversation.
A new, 91探花-led meta-analysis finds that people engage in self-injury and/or think about suicide to alleviate some types of stress; and that there is potential for therapy and other interventions.
April 26, 2022
Scientists once thought that post-starburst galaxies scattered all of their gas and dust 鈥� the fuel required for creating new stars 鈥� in violent bursts of energy, and with extraordinary speed. Now, a team led by 91探花 postdoctoral researcher Adam Smercina reports that these galaxies don鈥檛 scatter all of their star-forming fuel after all. Instead, after their supposed end, these dormant galaxies hold onto and compress large amounts of highly concentrated, turbulent gas. But contrary to expectation, they鈥檙e not using it to form stars.
April 25, 2022
Paula Thiele, a communication major who will graduate this spring, became the inaugural scholar to participate in the UW鈥檚 new Scholarship for Immersive Internships in Le贸n, dubbed 鈥溌pain Works!鈥� 鈥斅燼 partnership between the 91探花Le贸n Center, 91探花Study Abroad and the 91探花Career & Internship Center.
The 91探花 ranks No. 25 in the world, or fifth among U.S. public institutions for student experience, faculty prestige and quality of research, according to a list published April 25 by the聽Center for World University Rankings.聽
April 22, 2022
Former 91探花Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Robert Stacey will speak to the graduates of the classes of 2020 and 2021 when they return to Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium for an in-person celebration on Sunday, June 12.
Space urgently needs special legal protection similar to that given to land, sea and atmosphere to protect its fragile environment, argues a team of scientists. The scientific, economic and cultural benefits of space should be considered against the damaging environmental impacts posed by an influx of space debris 鈥� roughly 60 miles above Earth鈥檚 surface 鈥斅爁ueled by the rapid growth of so-called satellite mega-constellations. In a paper published April 22 in Nature Astronomy, the authors assert that space is an important environment to preserve on behalf of professional astronomers, amateur stargazers and Indigenous peoples.