Social science
August 9, 2012
Crowd funding on campus: UW scientists raise money for research online
When Rachel Aronson travels this month to Alaska, she and a local research assistant will interview people who are in danger of being displaced by climate change. She will also send about 100 postcards to her funders. Aronson is among a growing number of University of Washington students, faculty and staff who are using online…
August 7, 2012
South African Olympic runner’s struggle shines a spotlight on country’s ongoing sexual violence
South African track athlete Caster Semenya carried her country’s flag in the opening ceremony at the London Olympics. The 21-year-old former 800-meter world champion, for years the subject of speculation around her gender, was chosen over male athletes including a swimmer, a long jumper and a double-amputee runner. The choice was of interest to a…
July 10, 2012
Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites
Experts have thought that multiracial adolescents use drugs and engage in violence more than their single-race peers. But in a new study, researchers find that mixed-race adolescents are more similar to their white counterparts than previously believed.
June 27, 2012
Standard surveys overestimate black progress in education, earnings
In “Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress,” UW sociologist Becky Pettit shows how most surveys overestimate black progress in the United States.
June 14, 2012
Geographers seek stories of Seattle's pre-AIDS gay communities
Two UW geographers are piecing together how policies relating to alcohol and public health shaped how gays and lesbians in Seattle carried out their lives during the pre-AIDS era, before 1983.
June 12, 2012
Intervention to improve foster families’ trust, connectedness
UW researchers adapted a parenting program to help foster families address their greatest challenges, including overwhelmed foster parents and a lack of trust between caregivers and foster children.
June 4, 2012
New statistical model lets patient’s past forecast future ailments
Analyzing medical records from thousands of patients, statisticians have devised a statistical model for predicting what other medical problems a patient might encounter.
May 16, 2012
Gaydar automatic and more accurate for women's faces, psychologists find
After seeing faces for less than a blink of an eye, college students have accuracy greater than mere chance in judging others sexual orientation.
May 10, 2012
School of Social Work to lead new partnership for child welfare
The School of Social Work at the University of Washington will lead a newly formed partnership to provide professional development for the state’s social workers involved in child welfare.
May 8, 2012
Caregivers must keep ‘a slice of selfishness’ – UW social worker
Wendy Lustbader, with the UW School of Social Work, is a nationally known speaker on how to cope with aging, disability and end-of-life issues. She will speak June 4 at a caregivers conference in Tukwila, Wash.
May 7, 2012
Unconscious racial attitudes playing large role in 2012 presidential vote
After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era. But a new large-scale study by UW psychologists shows that racial attitudes have already played a substantial role in 2012, during the Republican primaries.
April 24, 2012
Global health priorities should shift to preventing risky behaviors in adolescence: UW professor
As deaths from infectious diseases have declined worldwide, policymakers are shifting attention to preventing deaths from noncommunicable causes, such as drug and alcohol use, traffic crashes and unsafe sex practices.
April 23, 2012
Robots fighting wars could be blamed for mistakes on the battlefield
Humans apply a moderate amount of morality and other human characteristics to robots that are equipped with social capabilities and are capable of harming humans, according to UW psychologists.
April 13, 2012
Your child gets diagnosed with autism – what now?
A new workshop at the UW Autism Center teaches parents and other caregivers techniques to encourage social and communication skills in their children recently diagnosed with autism.
April 5, 2012
Children perceive humanoid robot as emotional, moral being
Robot nannies could diminish child care worries for parents of young children, but UW psychologists warn that this could impoverish kids’ emotional and social growth.
April 2, 2012
Sex-offender registries list individuals not living in community, UW study
A UW Tacoma researcher has discovered that sex-offender registries include people who are not actually living within the community,such as individuals who have died, been deported, are in jail or have moved out of state.
March 27, 2012
Testosterone low, but responsive to competition, in Amazonian tribe — with slideshow
UW anthropologists report that Tsimane men have less baseline testosterone compared with U.S. men, but show the same increase in testosterone following a soccer game.
Secrets of famous 1930s ‘blonde bombshell of rhythm’ revealed with help from UW library
Ina Ray Hutton rose to fame in the 1930s and was known as blonde bombshell of rhythm. But she had a secret that could have damaged her stardom.
March 23, 2012
Emotionally supportive teachers lower risk for alcohol use in middle schoolers
Middle school students who felt more emotional support from teachers reported a delay in alcohol and other illicit substance initiation.
March 19, 2012
Pediatricians' pain-medication judgments affected by unconscious racial bias, says UW study
Pediatricians who showed an unconscious preference for European Americans tended to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they did for African-American patients, new UW research shows.
February 29, 2012
Chinas urbanization unlikely to lead to fast growth of middle class: UW geographer
Chinas growing cities are considered a boon for the consumer goods market, but a UW geographer presents evidence that new city dwellers will unlikely have much disposable income.
February 22, 2012
AAAS Notebook: Faculty views range across natural world, human health, more
Last weeks American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Vancouver, BC, included 11 speakers from the University of Washington on topics including marine protected areas, the myth of black progress, womens reproductive health and how undergraduates learn best.
February 10, 2012
‘Dr. Chocolate seeks worlds best chocolate
A UW Bothell lecturer describes her worldwide study of the cocoa and chocolate trade.
January 24, 2012
UW leads in connecting scholarship with community
Research that gives back to the public is an emerging trend in higher education, and the UW is among the first U.S. universities to establish a path of study for it.
January 20, 2012
Hip-hop lesson plans teach Seattle students about social issues, arts – with playlist
Hip-hop music teaches middle- and high schoolers about social movements, poetry and art in a UW-coordinated project.
January 19, 2012
Homeless heavy drinkers imbibe less when housing allows alcohol
A study of a housing project that allows chronically homeless people with severe alcohol problems to drink in their apartments found that residents cut their heavy drinking by 35 percent.
December 28, 2011
A way to ‘feel human: School of Social Work fosters social justice, joy through art
The School of Social Work will host a public reception Jan. 11 at 4-6 p.m. to kick off an art exhibit featuring about 20 paintings and drawings by homeless youths in the University District.
August 15, 2011
Younger siblings of children with autism have one in five chance of autism diagnosis
Parents of a child with an autism spectrum disorder face a 19 percent chance of having additional children diagnosed with the disorder, according to a new study co-authored by the UW Autism Center.
February 22, 2011
Minority Law Students Association to host Feb. 24 panel discussion on race and criminal justice
What creates racial disparities in the criminal justice system and what could address them? A six-member panel moderated by Mary Fan, UW assistant professor of law, will explore these issues and related ones.
February 8, 2011
Follow the field work: researcher blogging about fishing tech and turtles
On her plane trip to Ecuador Wednesday, UWs Kiki Jenkins will write her first entry for the “New York Times” blog “Scientist at work: Notes from the Field.”
January 3, 2011
Anti-bullying program reduces malicious gossip on school playgrounds
UW researchers report that elementary school students who participated in a three-month anti-bullying program in Seattle schools showed a 72 percent decrease in malicious gossip.
December 20, 2010
New book on Martin Luther King Jr. and economic rights: "All Labor Has Dignity”
Michael Honey, a history professor at UW Tacoma, collected, edited and wrote introductions for 16 of Kings speeches on economic justice.
December 1, 2010
IQ scores fail to predict academic performance in children with autism
In a study by researchers at the University of Washington, 90 percent of high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders showed a discrepancy between their IQ score and their performance on reading, spelling and math tests.
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