University of Washington students have been testing low-cost materials capable of harvesting water from fog.
UW students create, harvest fog in campus ‘hoop house’
March 18, 2013
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Long-term relationships, access to data drive sustainability institutions’ success
March 11, 2013
Successful sustainability initiatives need to be grounded in long-standing relationships among scientists, local communities and decision-makers, UW’s Lisa Graumlich told a session on sustainability science at AAAS.
United States lags behind many developed countries on key health measures
March 4, 2013
A public symposium on the Global Burden of Diseases study will be held on campus Monday, March 11.
Psychology in the real world: Public lecture series begins
February 13, 2013
The eighth annual Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lecture Series will spotlight “The Science of Psychology in the Real World,” exploring psychological aspects of the natural world, adolescence and the law.
Scholars urge Supreme Court to keep Voting Rights Act provisions ensuring equal access
February 5, 2013
Political science and law scholars from the UW and elsewhere file a brief saying the Supreme Court should fully uphold the Voting Rights Act in a case out of Shelby County, Alabama.
Ralina Joseph studies multiraciality in new book ‘Transcending Blackness’
February 4, 2013
Ralina Joseph, UW associate professor of communications, discusses her book, “Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial.”
More sex for married couples with traditional divisions of housework
January 29, 2013
Married couples who divide chores in traditional ways have more sex than couples who share so-called men’s and women’s work.
Better outlook for dwindling black macaque population in Indonesia
January 23, 2013
Hunting and habitat loss harm the critically endangered Sulawesi black macaque, but new research shows the population has stabilized in the past decade.
Brain structure of infants predicts language skills at 1 year
January 22, 2013
Researchers at UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences have found that the anatomy of certain brain areas – the hippocampus and cerebellum – can predict children’s language abilities at 1 year of age.
‘The Philosophical Child’: A book for when your child asks, ‘Why are we here?’
January 8, 2013
Children are natural philosophers, says Jana Mohr Lone of the UW Department of Philosophy and author of a new book titled “The Philosophical Child.”
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