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Stand With the Innocent: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice Reform
Please join us on Thursday, Jan. 28 at 5:30 p.m. for the 44th annual University Faculty Lecture. UW Law Professor Jacqueline McMurtrie, who founded the Washington Innocence Project, will discuss government accountability, the ethical responsibility of lawyers and judges to acknowledge mistakes, and the importance of pursuing criminal justice reform.

Coral recovery during a prolonged heatwave offers new hope
The pressing concerns of climate change have placed the long-term health of the world’s coral reefs in jeopardy. However, new research inspires hope as some corals managed to survive a recent and globally unprecedented heatwave.

Detecting COVID-19 in wastewater
Running underneath just about every residential home, apartment building, college residence hall and nursing home is a surprisingly valuable resource for detecting and monitoring COVID-19 outbreaks by neighborhood: the sewer system.
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