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October 2, 2019

Arts 91探花Roundup: New Burke Opening, Marianne Stecher lectures for Scandinavian 30, Composite Gestures closing soon, and more

This week in the arts, attend a Chamber Dance Company concert, view photographs from the Henry’s collections, reflect on the race of contemporary ballet, and more. Katja Petrowskaja: A Family Story Between Memory and Forgetting October 7, 6 – 8 pm | Communications聽Building In conversation with Assistant Professor聽Sasha Senderovich聽(Slavic, Jewish Studies),聽Katja Petrowskaja聽will discuss her 2013 literary memoir, recently translated from German into English.聽In the stories of her travels to Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and the United States, Petrowskaja reflects on…

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September 27, 2019

Arts 91探花Roundup: Lecture with Art History professors, dance performance, South Asian film symposium, and more

Start Fall Quarter artfully by attending a welcome back dance party, purchasing your tickets for Burke Opening Weekend, attending聽a concert, and more. Concert: Garrick Ohlsson October 1, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall 鈥� Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater Seattle favorite Garrick Ohlsson returns to Meany Center with a program of Brahms and Chopin.聽 Regarded as a leading exponent of the music of Fr茅d茅ric Chopin, he commands an enormous repertoire ranging over the entire piano literature. Ohlsson鈥檚 program highlights his well-earned reputation…

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September 26, 2019

Pay, flexibility, advancement: They all matter for workers’ health and safety, study shows

The terms and conditions of your employment 鈥� including your pay, hours, schedule flexibility and job security 鈥� influence your overall health as well as your risk of being injured on the job, according to new research from the 91探花. The analysis takes a comprehensive approach to show that the overall pattern of employment conditions is important for health, beyond any single measure of employment, such as wages or contract type. “This research is part of a growing…

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Joel Migdal, founder of International Studies Program, to mark 91探花retirement with public lecture, workshop, Oct. 3

Joel S. Migdal, professor in the 91探花Jackson School of International Studies, will celebrate retirement after 39 years at the 91探花on Oct. 3 with a daylong workshop featuring current and former students, followed by a lecture on 鈥淪tate and Society: Then and Now.鈥�

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Two 91探花ice researchers to participate in year-long drift across Arctic Ocean

Two 91探花researchers 鈥� Bonnie Light, a principal physicist at the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory and an affiliate associate professor of atmospheric sciences, and Madison Smith, a recent 91探花graduate who is now doing her postdoctoral research at the 91探花鈥� will join for the fifth of the six two-month legs, in summer 2020.

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Arts 91探花Roundup: Visit Arts Buzz at Dawg Daze, buy tickets to the Burke Opening Weekend, and more

In the arts, attend an opening reception at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, hear from School of Art + Art History +聽Design faculty, visit the Allen Library for a concert, and more! School of Art + Art History + Design Faculty Lectures Six faculty members will each give presentations during autumn quarter as part of the promotion process. They are listed below in order of date. All lectures take place in the聽Art Building. Free聽|聽More info Navigating Uncertainty Jason Germany,聽Assistant Professor, Industrial…

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KATRIN cuts the mass estimate for the elusive neutrino in half

An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe. At the 2019 Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics conference in Toyama, Japan, leaders from the KATRIN experiment reported Sept. 13 that the estimated range for the rest mass of the neutrino is no larger than 1 electron volt, or eV.

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September 12, 2019

Arts 91探花Roundup: Hugo House documentary, exhibition opening at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, concert in the library, and more!

In the arts, attend a film screening about Hugo House produced by Frances McCue and directed by Ryan K. Adams, go to an exhibition opening at Jacob Lawrence Gallery, buy tickets for the New Burke Opening, and more! Hugo House documentary “Where the House Was” September 21, 7:30 pm | Northwest Film Form For almost two decades,聽Hugo House聽has been a place for writers in Seattle. Now, a new documentary about the literary venue鈥檚 history 鈥� and the demolition of its…

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Enhancing the way epilepsy is managed by engaging community pharmacists

The 91探花鈥檚 School of Pharmacy announced on Thursday, Sept. 12, a collaboration with global biopharmaceutical company UCB to improve access to care for people living with epilepsy.This interdisciplinary project will explore ways in which community pharmacists can better support people living with this neurological disorder. The roughly 3.4 million people nationally and 75,000 people in Washington state who live with epilepsy often get fragmented and uncoordinated healthcare and community services. 鈥淔or the growing population of people living with…

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September 10, 2019

Hugo House documentary ‘Where the House Was’ to debut Sept. 21 at Northwest Film Forum

“Where the House Was,” a new, 58-minute documentary produced by France McCue, 91探花senior lecturer in English, tells of the old location for Hugo House, the place for writer, and its subsequent demolition.

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Tides don’t always flush water out to sea, study shows

Researchers at the 91探花 and the University of Strathclyde report that, in Willapa Bay in Washington state, the water washing over the tidal flats during high tides is largely the same water that washed over the flats during the previous high tide. This “old” water has not been mixed in with “new” water from deeper parts of the bay or the open Pacific Ocean, and has different chemical and biological properties, such as lower levels of food for creatures within the tide flats.

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Breakthrough Foundation honors 91探花researcher studying ‘exotic’ states of matter

Lukasz Fidkowski, an assistant professor of physics at the 91探花, is one of the winners of a 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation. The prize to early-career scientists, announced Sept. 5, recognizes Fidkowski and his three co-recipients “for incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.”

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Lightning ‘superbolts’ form over oceans from November to February

A study of superbolts, which release a thousand times more electrical energy in the low-frequency range than regular lightning bolts, finds they occur at very different times and places than regular lightning. Superbolts tend to strike over particular parts of the oceans, while regular lightning strikes over land.

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September 3, 2019

91探花colleges, offices share three-year NSF grant to make ‘internet of things’ more secure

Several 91探花schools and offices will team up to research how organizational practices can affect the interagency collaboration needed to keep the “internet of things” 鈥� and institutional systems 鈥� safe and secure.

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August 27, 2019

Pregnant women of color experience disempowerment by health care providers

A new study finds that women of color perceive their interactions with doctors, nurses and midwives as being misleading, with information being 鈥減ackaged鈥� in such a way as to disempower them by limiting maternity health care choices for themselves and their children.

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Arts 91探花Roundup; William Morris and the Kelmscott Press Exhibition, Closing soon – Cecilia Vicu帽a’s About to Happen, and more

In the arts, purchase tickets for the New Burke Opening Weekend, attend a rare duet setting performance by two School of Music faculty members, view a selection of gowns from the Henry鈥檚 collection of clothing and textiles, and more! New Burke Opening October 12th Ticket sales open on September 3rd for the New Burke Museum Grand Opening Weekend. Celebrate with聽multicultural music and dance performances, family-friendly activities, and food trucks. Off The Rez聽food truck will open it’s first brick-and-mortar location in…