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October 28, 2020
ArtSci Roundup: UW Global Month, 2020 Annual Space Policy and Research Center Symposium, and more
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. UW…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of History • Department of Political Science • Henry Art Gallery • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music
SoundWatch: New smartwatch app alerts d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing users to birdsong, sirens and other desired sounds
UW researchers have developed SoundWatch, a smartwatch app for deaf, Deaf and hard-of-hearing people who want to be aware of nearby sounds.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering • Jon Froehlich • Leah Findlater • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & EngineeringOctober 27, 2020
Vanessa Freije of UW Jackson School explores Mexican politics, journalism in new book ‘Citizens of Scandal’
A talk with Vanessa Freije of the UW Jackson School about her new book, “Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico.”
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Jackson School of International Studies • Vanessa Freije
Enrollment strong for the University of Washington’s fall 2020 entering class
The University of Washington’s newest class of undergraduate students broke record levels of enrollment across all three campuses, according to the finalized fall 2020 census of enrolled students.
Tag(s): University of WashingtonOctober 22, 2020
COVID-19: CDC advisory committee hones in on vaccine rollout recommendations
When a vaccine to fight COVID-19 has been approved by the FDA for distribution, it’s unlikely that at first there will be enough doses for everyone. Consequently, the United States will need an equitable and effective plan for who gets those first doses, how they get them and who’s next. Just as important, that plan…
Tag(s): Beth Bell • COVID-19 • Department of Global Health • population health • School of Medicine • School of Public Health • vaccines
UW seeks Latinos caring for relatives, friends with dementia to develop better training program
With Latinos 1.5 times more likely to have dementia than non-Latino whites, among other health disparities, researchers at the University of Washington are hoping to better understand Latino family caregivers and adapt the training available to those caregivers. To do that, the UW Department of Health Services is seeking to interview Latino caregivers for a…
Tag(s): Department of Health Services • Magaly Ramirez • population health • School of Public Health
Simple actions can help people survive landslides, UW analysis shows
Simple actions can dramatically improve a person’s chances of surviving a landslide, show records from 38 landslides in the U.S. and around the world. People who survived landslides tended to have moved upstairs or to higher ground, among other key actions.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Joseph Wartman • landslide • population healthOctober 21, 2020
Pandemic further isolating older adults, as senior services struggle to adapt
A new UW study of senior services in Washington during the COVID-19 pandemic reveals providers’ concerns about isolation, and worsening mental and physical health among older adults.
Tag(s): Carolyn Parsey • Clara Berridge • COVID-19 • Department of Health Services • Department of Neurology • Evans School of Public Policy & Governance • Population Health Initiative • School of Medicine • School of Public Health • School of Social Work • Scott AllardOctober 20, 2020
UW jumps two spots to No. 8 in US News Best Global Universities ranking
The University of Washington moved up two spots to No. 8 on the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities rankings, released Tuesday. The UW maintained its No. 2 ranking among U.S. public institutions.
Tag(s): Rankings
ArtSci Roundup: So Far So Good, Conversation with Jorge Ramos, and Emily Levesque in Conversation with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. So…
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Astronomy • Department of Communication • Emily Levesque • Jorge Ramos
Video: Local stream watchers add to salmon science
This fall, about three dozen people signed up to help count the salmon in their local streams and creeks. Recruited by University of Washington Bothell teaching professor Jeff Jensen, these volunteers agree to observe a stream location for at least half an hour per week (while taking coronavirus precautions) to gather vital information about salmon in streams that flow into Lake Washington and the Sammamish River.
Tag(s): Jeffrey Jensen • UW BothellOctober 19, 2020
Conversation about suicide prevention leads to safe gun storage, study finds
Research by Forefront Suicide Prevention at the University of Washington, from visits to 18 gun shows and other community events around Washington state last year, found that engaging people in a community-based setting, in an empathetic conversation focused on safety, resulted in more people locking up their firearms.
Tag(s): Ali Rowhani-Rahbar • Department of Epidemiology • Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program • Forefront • Jennifer Stuber • School of Public Health • School of Social Work
Three UW faculty members elected to National Academy of Medicine; emeritus professor earns service award
The National Academy of Medicine on Monday announced the election of 100 new members, including three from the : Patrick Heagerty, Dr. Joel Kaufman and Sean Sullivan. In addition, David Eaton, dean and vice provost emeritus of the UW’s Graduate School, was recognized for outstanding service.
Tag(s): Joel Kaufman • Patrick Heagerty • School of Pharmacy • School of Public Health • Sean D. Sullivan
Early-arriving endangered Chinook salmon take the brunt of sea lion predation on the Columbia
A new University of Washington and NOAA Fisheries study found that sea lions have the largest negative effect on early-arriving endangered Chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River. The results of this study will publish Oct. 18 in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Sarah Converse • School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences • School of Environmental and Forest SciencesOctober 16, 2020
New annual book prize named for late UW historian William Rorabaugh
The national Alcohol and Drugs History Society has established an annual book prize in the name of UW history professor William Rorabaugh, who died this spring, calling him “a pioneer in the social history of alcohol.”
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of History • William RorabaughOctober 15, 2020
Are climate scientists being too cautious when linking extreme weather to climate change?
Climate science has focused on avoiding false alarms when linking extreme weather to climate change. But when meteorologists warn of hazardous weather, they include a second key measure of success — the probability of detection.
Tag(s): climate change • College of the Environment • Dale Durran • Department of Atmospheric Sciences • weather
For single adults and families alike, higher cost of living in all Washington counties
Cost of living is up in all Washington counties, for families of all sizes, according to the 2020 Self-Sufficiency Standard for Washington State, a report that identifies the amount of income needed to support families of various sizes without additional help from the government, community or other personal resources.
Tag(s): Center for Women's Welfare • Diana Pearce • Lisa Manzer • School of Social WorkOctober 14, 2020
Video: Highlights from UW President Ana Mari Cauce’s annual address
UW President Ana Mari Cauce delivered her annual address to the community Oct. 12 at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House on the University of Washington campus. Highlights of the speech are reflected in this video. The audience was entirely virtual this year in accordance with public health guidelines.
Tag(s): Ana Mari CauceOctober 13, 2020
ArtSci Roundup: Beyond Guilt Trips, Washin Kai: Rakugo by Katsura Sunshine, Protests for the Soul of a Nation, and More
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. Beyond…
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Comparative History of Ideas Program • Department of American Ethnic Studies • Department of Asian Languages & Literature • Department of Communication • Department of English • Department of History • Department of Political Science • Department of Sociology • Henry Art Gallery • South Asia Center • South Asia Studies Program • UW Alumni Association
Classic slapstick and other silent films for home bingeing: A few suggestions from Cinema Studies’ Jennifer Bean
Jennifer Bean, UW associate professor of cinema studies, suggests a few silent film viewing opportunities this fall.
Tag(s): Department of Cinema & Media Studies • Jennifer Bean • UW LibrariesOctober 12, 2020
New Chinook art piece welcomes visitors to the Burke Museum: Guests from the Great River
A new art installation, Guests of the Great River, now greets visitors to the Burke Museum. The piece consists of 11 large-scale bronze paddles representing the arrival of a Chinookan canoe carrying cultural heroes of the Columbia River region, and with them the knowledge they embody.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture
Engineering lecture focuses on contact tracing: Monitoring COVID-19 infections while respecting privacy
This fall the UW’s annual engineering lecture will feature Stefano Tessaro, an associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • COVID-19 • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering • Stefano Tessaro
UW awarded NIH grant for training in advanced data analytics for behavioral and social sciences
With a grant from the National Institutes of Health, a five-year, $1.8 million training program at the University of Washington will fund 25 academic-year graduate fellowships, develop a new training curriculum and contribute to methodological advances in health research at the intersection of demography and data science.
Tag(s): Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences • Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biostatistics • Department of Sociology • Department of Statistics • eScience Institute • Evans School of Public Policy & Governance • Jackson School of International Studies • Jon Wakefield • Robert Stacey • Sara Curran • School of Public Health • Tyler McCormick • Zack AlmquistOctober 8, 2020
Airdropping sensors from moths: Researchers use flying insects to drop sensors from air, land them safely on the ground
UW researchers have created a sensor system that can ride aboard a small drone or an insect, such as a moth, until it gets to its destination.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering • Shyam GollakotaOctober 7, 2020
UW books in brief: Children’s books on STEM professionals, a courageous personal memoir — and UW Press looks back at 100
New books by UW faculty members include children’s works profiling STEM researchers and a personal memoir of an immigrant’s journey to freedom. Also, UW Press remembers a century of publishing, and a book on British colonialism is honored.
Tag(s): Bill Holm • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • College of Engineering • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Department of History • Faisal Hossain • George Behlmer • Quintard Taylor • School of Dentistry • Shawn Wong • University of Washington Press • UW Herbarium
Turning hotels into emergency shelter as part of COVID-19 response limited spread of coronavirus, improved health and stability
A King County initiative to relocate people from homeless shelters to hotel rooms during the pandemic not only limited the spread of COVID-19, but also improved people’s mental health and well-being, and allowed them to focus on long-term goals.
Tag(s): College of Built Environments • COVID-19 • Evans School of Public Policy & Governance • Gregg Colburn • Population Health Initiative • Rachel Fyall • Runstad Department of Real Estate • Urban@UWOctober 6, 2020
ArtSci Roundup: From Ally to Antiracist, Re/Frame: Abandoned, and more
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. Curating…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Anthropology • Department of History • Department of Political Science • Henry Art Gallery • Jackson School of International Studies • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • Simpson Center for the Humanities • UW alumni • UW Alumni Association
All together now: Experiments with twisted 2D materials catch electrons behaving collectively
In a paper published Sept. 14 in the journal Nature Physics, a team led by the University of Washington reports that carefully constructed stacks of graphene — a 2D form of carbon — can exhibit highly correlated electron properties. The team also found evidence that this type of collective behavior likely relates to the emergence of exotic magnetic states.
Tag(s): Clean Energy Institute • College of Arts & Sciences • College of Engineering • Department of Materials Science & Engineering • Department of Physics • Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems • Matthew Yankowitz • Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute • Xiaodong Xu
‘Neither Free Nor Fair’: New UW podcast takes on election security in US and abroad
Election security is the theme of a new podcast by James Long, an associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. “Neither Free Nor Fair?” features experts from the UW and elsewhere on topics such as mail-in voting, foreign interference and the role of social media, and resolving disputed elections.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Political Science • James LongOctober 5, 2020
Video: Using ‘Street View’ to track pandemic in Seattle over time
As the city of Seattle shut down in March 2020 to try to slow the spread of COVID-19, a group of University of Washington researchers decided to track how the city would react.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • COVID-19 • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences • Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering • Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering • Joseph Wartman • School of Public Health
UW secures competitive $1 million Luce Foundation grant to advance Southeast Asian research and community engagement
The Southeast Asia Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Libraries at the University of Washington will spearhead a new initiative of innovative collaborations to explore the effects and consequences of authoritarianism in Southeast Asia and on Southeast Asian American communities in the United States.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of American Ethnic Studies • Information School • Jackson School of International Studies • Southeast Asia Center • UW Libraries
Women, workers of color filling most ‘high-hazard/low-reward’ jobs in Washington
When exploring data on Washington workers during the pandemic — demographics, working conditions, wages and benefits, and risks of exposure to disease — the authors of a new report found that women hold two-thirds of the jobs in the harshest category of work. “The big takeaway from our research,” said David West, a co-author of…
Tag(s): Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences • Marissa Baker • School of Public HealthOctober 1, 2020
UW COVID-19 testing reveals few positives on campus; new outbreak in Greek community
FINAL UPDATE Jan. 11: For more than two months, this post has been updated regularly as cases have been added to the Greek community outbreak. The updates will continue to be provided on the UW COVID-19 Case tracking dashboard, which can be found here. Updates on the Greek community outbreak can be found by hovering…
Faculty/staff honors: Teaching and mentoring award; three Aeronautics & Astronautics professors recognized — and state dance educator of the year
Recent honors to UW faculty have come from the American Institute for Aeronautics & Astronautics, the American Society of Composites, the Coalition for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology and the Dance Educators Association of Washington.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Daniel Enquobahrie • Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics • Department of Dance • Department of Epidemiology • Eli Livne • Etienne Cakpo • Jennifer Salk • Jinku "JK" Yang • Marco Saviato
Official notice: Northwest Behavioral Health Teaching Facility — adoption of existing document and addendum
The proposed UW Medical Center – Northwest Behavioral Health Teaching Facility is intended to provide innovative and integrated behavioral health care and teaching services to address the shortage of such services in the state of Washington. It would include the construction of a new building on the site of the existing D-wing building, would be up to seven stories tall, and provide approximately 210,000 square feet of above grade building space.
September 30, 2020
UW receives $1.5 million CDC grant to study handgun carrying among rural adolescents
With roughly 109 people dying every day and many others treated in emergency rooms from firearm-related injuries — which are the second leading cause of death among adolescents — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has, after decades, stepped in to fund critical firearm research. The CDC announced on Sept. 23 it would fund…
Tag(s): Ali Rowhani-Rahbar • Department of Epidemiology • Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program • Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center • population health • School of Public Health
UW researchers driving around Seattle to track COVID-19 response over time
UW researchers developed a project that scans the streets every few weeks to document how Seattle has reacted to the pandemic and what recovery looks like.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • COVID-19 • COVID-19 studies • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences • Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering • Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering • Joseph Wartman • Nicole Errett • RAPID Facility • School of Public Health • Scott Miles • Youngjun Choe
Greenland is on track to lose ice faster than in any century over the past 12,000 years, study finds
A new study combines ice cores, geologic records and computer models to understand the past, present and future of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The results show that emissions this century have a big influence on how much ice will be lost from Greenland.
Tag(s): climate change • College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • Eric Steig • polar scienceSeptember 29, 2020
Aquatic hitchhikers: Using mobile technology to predict invasive species transmission
A new University of Washington study uses passive data from a fishing technology company to model the movement of anglers and predict where aquatic invasive species may be spreading.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Julian Olden • School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
ArtSci Roundup: Velvet Sweatshops and Algorithmic Cruelty, Social Movements & Racial Justice, the Vice Presidential Debate Preview, and More
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. Velvet…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Astrobiology Program • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Anthropology • Department of Astronomy • Department of English • Department of Germanics • Department of History • Department of Political Science • Jacob Lawrence Gallery • population health • Population Health Initiative • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • Simpson Center for the Humanities • UW Alumni Association« Previous Page Next Page »
