August 15, 2022
UW to host college students for NASA-funded lunar rover challenge
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The University of Washington received a nearly $500,000 grant to run one of NASA’s Artemis Student Challenges in which participants turn a model lunar lava tube into a habitat suitable for housing humans on the moon or Mars.
August 12, 2022
New faculty books: How your brain works, cycling around the world and more
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Recent and upcoming books from University of Washington faculty include those from the Jackson School of International Studies, the Department of Psychology and the Runstad Department of Real Estate.
August 8, 2022
Q&A: Story collection from UW professor tackles messy emotions of domestic relationships
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Maya Sonenberg, professor of English at the University of Washington, highlights common feelings that are often silenced due to shame and societal expectations in her new short story collection, “Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters.”
July 12, 2022
New faculty books: Threats to US democracy, early history of gay rights, and more
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Federalism, queer history, the impact of the Russian Revolution on Jewish communities, and the evolution of Filipinx American studies are among the subjects of recent and upcoming books by UW faculty.
July 8, 2022
Sweetened beverage taxes produce net economic benefits for lower-income communities
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New research led by University of Washington professors James Krieger and Melissa Knox found that sweetened beverage taxes redistributed dollars from higher- to lower-income households.
June 22, 2022
Q&A: New book from UW professor examines history, consequences of fifth columns
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A new book co-edited by Scott Radnitz, associate professor in the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies, features original papers on the roots and implications of the politics surrounding real and imagined fifth columns.
June 15, 2022
Video: Improvised Music Project Festival’s new format focuses on recording process
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This year, the School of Music’s Improvised Music Project focused on audio recording, inviting acclaimed recording engineer David Boucher for a weeklong workshop. The new format allowed students and faculty to gain experience with UW’s new mobile recording system while teaching fundamental recording and audio skills.
June 10, 2022
Early investors can forecast future of startup companies
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New research from Emily Cox Pahnke, University of Washington associate professor of management and organization, shows that early investors often predict the future of startup companies.
June 1, 2022
Narcissistic bosses stymie knowledge flow, cooperation inside organizations
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New research from University of Washington associate professor of management Abhinav Gupta shows that narcissism can cause knowledge barriers within organizations. Narcissists hinder cooperations between units due to a sense of superiority.
May 26, 2022
Seattle democracy vouchers increase donations, number of candidates in city elections
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A new study from Alan Griffith, assistant professor of economics at the University of Washington, 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 17, 2022
UW Foster School of Business faculty to speak May 20 on improving employee well-being
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On May 20, faculty experts from the University of Washington Foster School of Business will share their perspectives and research in a series of short talks: “Foster Insights: Creating Better Workplaces and Better Lives.”
May 13, 2022
‘Resistance Through Resilience’: Conference highlights compassion-based practices to interrupt racism
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The seventh annual Center for Communication, Difference and Equity Conference, “Resistance Through Resilience,” will be held in collaboration with the University of Washington Resilience Lab.
May 12, 2022
Simulation offers UW students practical experience in crisis negotiation
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Robert Pekkanen, University of Washington 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.
May 9, 2022
Q&A: Exposing the anti-radical origins of anti-Asian racism
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In his new book, University of Washington 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 5, 2022
UW professors to participate in panel on recently removed Volunteer Park plaque
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University of Washington professors Christoph Giebel, Vicente Rafael and Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva will participate in a discussion on about a memorial plaque that was recently removed from Volunteer Park due to concerns about its accuracy.
April 28, 2022
Professor Margaret O’Mara on contextualizing Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase and the future of online speech
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University of Washington history professor Margaret O’Mara says Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has renewed debate about freedom of online speech, online content moderation and the power of billionaires to shape public conversation.
April 14, 2022
Historian Bailkin, astronomer Levesque receive Guggenheim Fellowships
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Two University of Washington faculty members are among 180 experts in the arts, humanities, law and the sciences chosen as 2022 Guggenheim Fellows, according to an April 7 announcement from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Jordanna Bailkin, a professor in the Department of History, and Emily Levesque, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy, are among the new class of fellows, which were selected from a pool of nearly 2,500 applicants.
April 13, 2022
UW artist in residence adds to Grammy Award total
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An artist in residence at the University of Washington School of Music, Steve Rodby produced “Mirror, Mirror,” which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. He now has 14 Grammy Awards.
April 7, 2022
UW documentary chronicles story of tree poacher accused of starting 2018 fire
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A new documentary from University of Washington professors Lynn M. Thomas and Daniel Hoffman tells the story of a man accused of starting a wildfire while illegally removing trees from the Olympic National Forest.
April 4, 2022
Q&A: From the Philippines to the US, analyzing a global political shift to the right
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In his book “The Sovereign Trickster,” University of Washington history professor Vicente L. Rafael examines the authoritarian rule of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and tries to make sense of a global shift to the political right.
March 14, 2022
Q&A: Preserving context and user intent in the future of web search
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In a new perspective paper, University of Washington professors Emily M. Bender and Chirag Shah respond to proposals that reimagine web search as an application for large language model-driven conversation agents.
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