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January 7, 2014
On-demand vaccines possible with engineered nanoparticles
University of Washington engineers hope a new type of vaccine they have shown to work in mice will one day make it cheaper and easy to manufacture on-demand vaccines for humans. Immunizations could be administered within minutes where and when a disease is breaking out.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Chemical Engineering • Francois BaneyxJanuary 6, 2014
Babbling babies – responding to one-on-one ‘baby talk’ – master more words
Common advice to new parents is that the more words babies hear the faster their vocabulary grows. Now new findings show that what spurs early language development isn’t so much the quantity of words as the style of speech and social context in which speech occurs.
Tag(s): I-LABS
‘Future of Ice’ initiative marks new era for UW polar research
The UW’s new “Future of Ice” initiative includes several new research hires, a new minor in Arctic studies and a free winter lecture series.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • Ben Fitzhugh • College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • Eric Steig • Lisa Graumlich • Nadine Fabbi • polar science
Book explains astrobiology for a general audience
David Catling’s new book, part of an Oxford University Press series, aims to explain astrobiology to a general audience.
January 3, 2014
Board of Regents — Jan. 9 Meeting Announcement
The Board of Regents will hold a Regular Meeting on Thursday, Jan. 9, at 12:15 p.m. in the Petersen Room of the Allen Library. The full agenda is available online.
January 2, 2014
El Niño tied to melting of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier
A new study in Science, co-authored by the British Antarctic Survey and UW authors, shows that melting of the floating Pine Island ice shelf is tied to global atmospheric patterns associated with El Niño.
Tag(s): climate change • College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • Eric Steig • glaciers • polar scienceDecember 31, 2013
Genetically identical bacteria can behave in radically different ways
When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells there can be an uneven distribution of cellular organelles. The resulting cells can behave differently from each other, giving them an evolutionary advantage.
Tag(s): microbes and virusesDecember 30, 2013
Recap of 2013: Top 10 most-viewed stories on UW Today
For us writers in the UW News office, the year’s end gives us some time to think about the big research news stories of the year. Those that drove up page views, flooded our servers (thank you UW web team for keeping us afloat!), and generated interesting reader responses in the comments section. We…
David Shields acts, James Franco directs: A report from the set
An English professor turned actor? David Shields answers a few questions about “playing himself” in a film directed by James Franco based on Shields’ forthcoming book with colleague Caleb Powell, “I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel.”
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • David Shields • Department of English • Q&ADecember 27, 2013
News digest: Fight hunger site, MyPlan extension, Energy Star rating, lecture nominations due
Check out Huskies Fight Hunger site || UW online academic planner to be extended to community, technical college students || UW Tower data center now Energy Star certified || Nominations due Jan. 31 for graduate school public lectures
December 26, 2013
Psychiatry’s Jeremy J. Clark receives Presidential Early Career Award
Clark was recognized for his work in the neurobiology of motivated behavior. His award will support investigations of how alcohol exposure during the teen years might lead to chronic alcoholism in adults.
Tag(s): alcohol use & abuse • child & adolescent development • health care and mental health • neuroscience & brain scienceDecember 23, 2013
UW Medicine Memory and Brain Wellness Center opens at Harborview
The new center at Harborview will link clinical evaluation and care of patients with research programs in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, latent degenerative disease detection and treatment, and care delivery.
December 19, 2013
Sinuous skeletons, glowing blue and crimson, leap from lab to art world
Fish “stripped” to their skeletons and stained for UW research are now part of an art exhibit at the Seattle Aquarium.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • College of the Environment • Department of Biology • Friday Harbor Laboratories
TB bacteria mask their identity to intrude into deeper regions of lungs
Cell surface lipids hide molecular patterns that infection-killing cells might recognize as dangerous.
Tag(s): Department of Immunology • Department of Microbiology • infectious disease • Lalita RamakrishnanDecember 18, 2013
Home dialysis gains momentum through UW research
Of the 400,000 kidney disease patients on dialysis in the United States only 6 percent to 7 percent are treated with home dialysis, largely because the choice is not often given to them as an option.
Tag(s): Department of Medicine • Harborview Medical Center • School of Medicine • UW Medicine
Single bacterial super-clone behind world epidemic of drug-resistant E. coli
Virulent, drug-resistant forms of E. coli that recently have spread around the world emerged from a single strain of the bacteria, not many different strains, as has been widely supposed.
December 17, 2013
UWMC grants wish for seriously ill teen interested in NICU nursing
Samantha’s dream career is Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nursing. One day last week the nurses in the UW Medical Center NICU warmly welcomed her to their world of caring for babies and their families.
Tag(s): nursing
The move’s on us: Students leave Terry, will return to new Lander Hall
Students living in the University of Washington’s Terry Hall will get a new home after the holidays without doing any moving – that part’s on the house, you might say.
Tag(s): Capital Projects • Terry Hall • UW Housing & Food Services
Hack the planet? Geoengineering research, ethics, governance explored
A special interdisciplinary issue of the journal Climatic Change includes the most detailed description yet of the proposed Oxford Principles to govern geoengineering research, and surveys the technical hurdles, ethics and regulatory issues related to deliberately manipulating the planet’s climate.
Tag(s): climate change • College of Arts & Sciences • College of the Environment • Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science • geoengineering • philosophy • Rob Wood • Stephen GardinerDecember 16, 2013
5 effective parenting programs to reduce problem behaviors in children
UW researchers evaluated about 20 parenting programs and found five that are especially effective at helping parents and children at all risk levels avoid adolescent behavior problems that affect not only individuals, but entire communities.
Tag(s): Kevin Haggerty • School of Social Work • Social Development Research GroupDecember 12, 2013
New state-funded Clean Energy Institute will focus on solar, battery technologies
A new University of Washington institute to develop efficient, cost-effective solar power and better energy storage systems launched Dec. 12 with an event attended by UW President Michael K. Young, Gov. Jay Inslee and researchers, industry experts and policy leaders in renewable energy.
Tag(s): clean or renewable energy • College of Arts & Sciences • College of Engineering • Daniel Schwartz • David Ginger • Department of Chemical Engineering • Department of Chemistry • Department of Materials Science & Engineering • Michael K. Young
Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code
Finding a second code hiding in the genome casts new light on how changes to DNA impact health and disease.
Tag(s): Department of Genome Sciences • genetics & DNA • genomics • School of MedicineDecember 11, 2013
Arts Roundup: Exhibits at the Henry and Burke Museum
This week we’re wrapping up the end of fall quarter — and the last arts roundup of 2013 — with a nice bow. During the roundup’s winter hiatus, we encourage you to check out some of the ongoing exhibits on campus before they also come to a close.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Henry Art Gallery
UW ranked 13th best value among public institutions by Kiplinger’s
The University of Washington has been ranked 13th best value among public colleges and universities for 2014 by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
Tag(s): RankingsDecember 10, 2013
What climate change means for federally protected marine species
As the Endangered Species Act nears its 40th birthday at the end of December, conservation biologists are coming to terms with a danger not foreseen in the 1970s: global climate change.
Tag(s): Amy Snover • climate change • Climate Impacts Group • College of the Environment • endangered species • fisheries biologyDecember 9, 2013
Communities across U.S. reduce teen smoking, drinking, violence and crime
Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used a prevention system developed by UW’s Social Development Research Group.
Tag(s): David Hawkins • School of Social Work • Social Development Research Group
Astronomers solve temperature mystery of planetary atmospheres
An atmospheric peculiarity the Earth shares with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune is likely common to billions of planets, University of Washington astronomers have found, and knowing that may help in the search for potentially habitable worlds.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • College of the Environment • David Catling • Department of Astronomy • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • Tyler Robinson • Virtual Planetary LaboratoryDecember 6, 2013
Sounders star makes young UW dental patient’s day
Samuel Knorr didn’t like the idea of missing school for an orthodontic retainer check at the UW’s The Center for Pediatric Dentistry. When he came face to face with Seattle Sounders star DeAndre Yedlin, however, he was happy he did.
Tag(s): Center for Pediatric DentistryDecember 4, 2013
Arts Roundup: Drama, Ladino Day — and the UW Opera Theater
As fall quarter comes to a close, there’s still plenty to see and do on campus. This coming week, attend the UW Opera Theater to brush up on your “Le Nozze di Figaro,” or enjoy the final weekend of the Undergraduate Theater Society’s performance of “Woyzeck.”
Tag(s): Henry Art Gallery • School of Music • Stroum Center for Jewish Studies • Undergraduate Theater SocietyDecember 3, 2013
Signalers vs. strong silent types: Sparrows exude personalities during fights
Like humans, some song sparrows are more effusive than others, at least when it comes to defending their territories. New UW findings show that consistent individual differences exist not only for how aggressive individual song sparrows are but also for how much they use their signals to communicate their aggressive intentions.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Psychology • Michael Beecher
New book ‘Going Viral’ explores nature, impact of Internet virality
Will we of the early 21th century be remembered for Internet memes like Grumpy Cat? “Going Viral,” a new book by Karine Nahon and Jeff Hemsley of the UW Information School explores the nature of virality and impacts of virality.
Tag(s): Information School • Jeff Hemsley • Karine Nahon • social media
Project to gauge effects of Affordable Care Act in Washington state
The overall purpose of the project, called UW-SHARE, is to obtain a benchmark, pre-ACA picture of health-care use, health, health-related attitudes, and access to health insurance.
Tag(s): Anirban Basu • School of Public Health
‘Spooky action’ builds a wormhole between ‘entangled’ particles
New research indicates that a phenomenon called “quantum entanglement” could be intrinsically linked with the creation of wormholes.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of PhysicsDecember 2, 2013
Last chance to donate: UW Combined Fund Drive ends Dec. 6
UW faculty and staff have until Dec. 6 to contribute to this year’s UW Combined Fund Drive, part of Washington state’s workplace giving campaign.
Tag(s): Combined Fund Drive • Human ResourcesNovember 26, 2013
MyHeartMapSeattle scavenger hunters report over 2,000 defibrillators
A city-wide contest to locate as many of Seattle’s automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, netted far more than expected. The challenge arose from the need to map and monitor these devices, which can save the lives of people suffering an out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest.
Tag(s): Graham Nichol • heart disease
Arts Roundup: Drama, art — and the School of Music’s ‘Carolfest’
The holiday season kicks off in full force with a variety of arts events to enjoy, including the School of Music’s annual CarolFest is on Dec. 4.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Henry Art Gallery • School of Music • Stroum Center for Jewish Studies • Undergraduate Theater Society
Redesigned purple UW license plates now available
The newly designed University of Washington vehicle license plate is now available for sale from the state Department of Licensing.
AAAS names five UW researchers as fellows
Five University of Washington researchers are among new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
News digest: ‘StormReady’ status, Ryan Calo blogs, green seed proposals due, ease Net access
“StormReady” status ups UW’s ability to cope with weather extremes || Ryan Calo blogs for Forbes || First Green Seed Fund proposals due Dec. 3 || Ease Net access at 5,500 institutions with “eduroam”
November 25, 2013
Study: Greenhouse gas might have warmed early Mars enough to allow liquid water
The mystery of how the surface of Mars, long dead and dry, could have flowed with water billions of years ago may have been solved by research that included a University of Washington astronomer.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • Department of Astronomy • planetary science • Tyler Robinson« Previous Page Next Page »
