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April 22, 2013
New book explores fragile status of world’s penguins
Wayne C. Roth, president and general manager of KUOW, to retire after 30 years
Wayne C. Roth, president and general manager of KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, has announced that he will retire this September.
News Digest: Husky Green Awards, oceanbound on Earth Day, join Trash-in Wednesday, spring-clean your inbox
Husky Green Awards announced at kick-off || Expedition oceanbound on Earth Day || Annual ‘UW Trash-In’ event Wednesday || Tips to spring-clean your inbox
‘Rare Earth’ redux: Moon is key to our existence
April 19, 2013
Roboticists discover the secret of insect flight
A UW biologist is among scientists who have found that the abdominal movements of some insects play a large role in flight control.
April 18, 2013
HuskyFest, Earth Day activities fill Red Square Friday
Join in Friday during HuskyFest and kick-off activities for Earth Day.
Arts Roundup: Drama, art — and a student-run jazz festival
The School of Drama continues its Western, music Professor Robin McCabe and sister Rachelle McCabe perform works for piano, and jazzman Bill Frisell visits for the fifth-annual IMPfest.
Astronomers discover five-planet system with most Earth-like exoplanet yet
A University of Washington astronomer has discovered perhaps the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • Department of AstronomyApril 17, 2013
A key to mass extinctions could boost food, biofuel production
A substance implicated in several mass extinctions could greatly enhance plant growth, with implications for global food supplies biofuels, new UW research shows.
Tag(s): clean or renewable energy • College of Arts & Sciences • College of the Environment • Department of Biology • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • food productionApril 15, 2013
Preparing to install the world’s largest underwater observatory
Engineers at the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory are under pressure to build and test parts for installation this summer in the world’s largest deep-ocean observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • College of the Environment • Deborah Kelley • Gary Harkins • Geoff Cram • John Delaney • Ocean Observatories Initiative • School of Oceanography
Jon Huntsman selected as UW Commencement speaker
Jon Huntsman, who has spent more than two decades in public service, will be the featured speaker at the UW’s 2013 Commencement exercises
High glucose levels could impair ferroelectricity in body’s connective tissues
Researchers found that a protein in organs that repeatedly stretch and retract can lose their functionality when exposed to sugar.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Mechanical Engineering • Jiangyu LiApril 14, 2013
Recent Antarctic climate, glacier changes at the ‘upper bound’ of normal
In recent decades the thinning of glaciers at the edge of Antarctica has accelerated, but new UW-led research indicates the changes, though dramatic, cannot be confidently attributed to human-caused global warming.
Tag(s): climate change • College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • polar scienceApril 12, 2013
Celebrating Earth Day at the Arboretum
New device could cut costs on household products, pharmaceuticals
A new procedure that thickens and thins fluid at the micron level could save consumers and manufacturers money, particularly for some soap products.
Tag(s): Alice Dohnalkova • Amy Shen • College of Engineering • Department of Mechanical Engineering • Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tsunami debris could be found in Washington’s annual beach cleanup
The annual beach cleanup may turn up new items from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan more than two years ago and sent objects to the Washington coast.
Tag(s): Ian Miller • oceanography • Washington Sea Grant
Airlift Northwest will station a Turbo Commander aircraft in Juneau
The new Turbo Commander aircraft will allow the medical transport service to reach more people living in outlying rural areas of Southwest Alaska.
Tag(s): Airlift Northwest • Alaska • Chris Martin • UW MedicineApril 11, 2013
Arts Roundup: Music, art — and a Western from the School of Drama
This week brings art exhibits, lectures and several events from the UW School of Music, and the School of Drama wrangles the Western genre for a six-part, ensemble-created show.
Space-age domes offer a window on ocean acidification
At Friday Harbor Labs, students are conducting a three-week study on the effects of ocean acidification using a strategy that’s midway between a controlled lab test and an open-ocean experiment.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Friday Harbor Laboratories • James Murray • ocean acidification • School of Oceanography
Senate confirms Sally Jewell as Interior secretary
UW musician finds key to solving saxophone discord
Tuberculosis fighter and promoter reveals what’s behind its split identity
Latest research findings suggest the possibility of reverting TB hyper-susceptibility to TB hyper-resistance.
Tag(s): infectious disease • Lalita Ramakrishnan • microbes and virusesApril 10, 2013
Burke Museum Herbarium launches new wildflower app
The “Washington Wildflowers” app, out this week, includes information for more than 870 common wildflowers, shrubs and vines.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • UW Herbarium
Bringing art to Arctic narwhal research
April 8, 2013
News Digest: Police department open house, Magnuson scholars named, ethics of health care ‘migration’
Police department open house April 17 || 2013 Magnuson Scholars named || Bioethicists to discuss ethics of health care ‘migration’
New book explores Harry Truman’s record on civil liberties
A few questions for Richard Kirkendall, UW professor emeritus of history and editor of the new book, “Civil Liberties and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman.”
Tag(s): books • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of History • Q&AApril 5, 2013
World renowned brain cancer researcher to join UW Medicine
Neurosurgeon Eric Holland has been recruited to establish a preeminent brain cancer program at UW Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute.
Tag(s): Alvord Chair • cancer • Eric Holland • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center • neuroscience & brain scienceApril 4, 2013
Explore global health through the arts during Global Health Week
Dance, photography, cinema, theater and music will convey how the arts can make a difference in public health.
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Department of Global Health • School of Medicine • School of Public Health
Arts Roundup: Music, art, fiction — and the Burke Museum’s ‘Coast Salish Weekend’
There’s much to see and hear on campus as spring quarter begins — music. art, lectures and fiction — even though the true campus stars are the cherry blossoms.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama
Listening to the Big Bang – in high fidelity (audio)
A UW physicist has used new satellite data to update his decade-old recreation of the sound of the Big Bang at the birth of the universe.
Rocket powered by nuclear fusion could send humans to Mars
Astronauts could be a step closer to a fast journey to Mars using a unique manipulation of nuclear fusion devised by UW scientists and those at a Redmond company.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics • John T. Slough • NASA • UW Plasma Dynamics LaboratoryApril 3, 2013
UW group part of national report, meeting on adaptation to climate change
The UW’s Climate Impacts Group is part of a national report and first-ever national meeting on adapting to the effects of a changing climate.
Tag(s): Amy Snover • climate change • Climate Impacts Group
Brain cell signal network genes linked to schizophrenia risk in families
The genetic variants disturb the functioning of the same brain signal receptors affected by hallucinogenic drugs.
Tag(s): Debbie Tsuang • genetics & DNA • health care and mental health • neuroscience & brain science
Safety emphasis cuts UW’s major construction injuries to less than 2 percent
Construction can be a dangerous business, and there’s always plenty of it happening at the University of Washington, from remodeling a section of one building to refurbishing an entire building or erecting a new one. A decade ago, when the Capital Projects Office began keeping tabs on worker injuries, it was estimated that 12 of…
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Diversity programs give illusion of corporate fairness, study shows
Diversity training programs lead people to believe that work environments are fair even when given evidence of hiring, promotion or salary inequities, according to findings by UW psychologists.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Psychology
Paws on Science 2013
It’s Husky Weekend at Pacific Science Center, and UW scientists and researchers will have family-oriented activities and exhibits ranging from building a race car to controlling underwater robots.
News Digest: Montlake closures, environmental excellence finalist, Paws-on Science April 5-7, home fair April 11
Portion of Montlake closing all day Saturday, Sunday || UW finalist in environmental excellence contest || Family-friendly Paws-on Science April 5-7 || Home Improvement Fair April 11
April 2, 2013
Book focuses on 1969 fight to save America’s premier fossil beds
Book Q and A: To allow buildings on 34 million year-old fossils would be like using the Dead Sea Scrolls to wrap fish in, proclaimed the lawyer defending land that would eventually become Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • Estella Leopold • paleontology
South African gender, sexuality and race topic of Samuel E. Kelly lecture April 18
Amanda Lock Swarr, a UW associate professor in gender, women and sexuality studies, will deliver the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity’s ninth annual Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture on Thurs., April 18.
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