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February 6, 2019
UW Libraries is new home for decades of KIRO-TV news video
Last year, local station KIRO-TV donated thousands of hours of old news videotapes of its news broadcasts from the 1970s through about the year 2000 — about 15,000 videotapes in all — to UW Libraries.
Tag(s): Hannah Palin • Stephen Groening • UW Libraries
Two new studies published about the Seattle minimum wage ordinance
University of Washington researchers continue to study the impact of the 2014 Seattle minimum wage ordinance. An interdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate students who have tracked various industries since the ordinance’s implementation just published two new studies: These papers take a closer look at the effects on child care businesses and on food prices during the policy implementation.
Tag(s): James Buszkiewicz • Jennifer Otten • minimum wage • School of Public Health • Seattle Minimum Wage Study
Parenting in the age of legal pot: Household rules, conversations help guide teen use
The legalization of marijuana in Washington state in 2012 gave parents the opportunity for a new teachable moment. Many say that as society has become more permissive, they want information and advice.
Tag(s): Kevin Haggerty • Nicole Eisenberg • Rick Kosterman • School of Social Work • Social Development Research GroupFebruary 4, 2019
Early spring rain boosts methane from thawing permafrost by 30 percent
A UW-led team has found that early spring rainfall warms up a thawing permafrost bog in Alaska and promotes the growth of plants and methane-producing microbes.
Tag(s): climate change • College of Engineering • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Rebecca NeumannJanuary 31, 2019
Iguana-sized dinosaur cousin discovered in Antarctica, shows how life at the South Pole bounced back after mass extinction
Scientists have just discovered a dinosaur relative that lived in Antarctica 250 million years ago. The iguana-sized reptile’s genus name, Antarctanax, means “Antarctic king.”
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Christian Sidor • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • dinosaurs • paleontologyJanuary 30, 2019
UW-based group launches national challenge to recreate first moon landing — with drones and Lego robots
A UW-based group is launching a national student challenge to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo moon landing.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • Robert Winglee • robotics
Building equity: A talk with Renée Cheng, new dean of the UW College of Built Environments
UW News talks with Renée Cheng, new dean of the UW College of Built Environments, about her background and plans for the college. Cheng joined the UW on Jan. 1.
Tag(s): College of Built Environments • Renee ChengJanuary 29, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Call for singers to perform with Tanya Tagaq, recital with Craig Sheppard and Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, and more
This week in the arts, perform on stage with Tanya Tagaq at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts, experience Beethoven for cello and piano at a faculty recital, attend a lecture with New York-based Artist Amy O’Neill, catch one of the last performances of Rutherford and Son, and more! Faculty Recital: Craig Sheppard,…
Tag(s): Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music • wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House
Organizations come together to show support for suicide prevention
Community impact and public health solutions are the focus of the Forefront Suicide Prevention Education Day, to be held Feb. 11 at the Washington Capitol in Olympia. Forefront, based at the UW School of Social Work, is leading the event, a series of speakers and events aimed at raising awareness, providing training and pushing for change.
Tag(s): Forefront • Jennifer Stuber • School of Social WorkJanuary 28, 2019
Even a one-hour ‘planting party’ can lift spirits, build skills among women in prison, study shows
Exposure to nature, even through a brief gardening activity, can improve well-being among women in prison, a UW Tacoma-led study finds.
Tag(s): Barbara Toews • UW Tacoma
UW’s Stroum Center affiliates present on Holocaust, Ladino archives and more at 50th anniversary Jewish studies conference
The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, in the UW Jackson School of International Studies, was well represented at the 50th annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies Dec. 16-18 in Boston.
Tag(s): Annegret Oehme • College of Arts & Sciences • Devin Naar • Hamza Zafer • Jackson School of International Studies • Naomi Sokoloff • Noam Pianko • Richard Block • Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
University of Washington earns high marks in international sustainability rating
The University of Washington has been recognized as one of the most sustainable higher education institutions in North America, according to the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System.
Tag(s): UW Bothell • UW Sustainability • UW TacomaJanuary 23, 2019
One year into the mission, autonomous ocean robots set a record in survey of Antarctic ice shelf
A team of ocean robots developed at the UW is the first group of self-guided ocean instruments to travel under an ice sheet and come back to report long-term observations.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • climate change • College of the Environment • Craig Lee • glaciers • Knut Christianson • oceanography • polar science • School of Oceanography
First-of-its-kind center hosts tools to analyze the effects of natural disasters
A center housed at the University of Washington offers a new way for scientists to get their hands on state-of-the-art equipment to study the effects of natural disasters. The RAPID Facility, which is the first of its kind in the world, contains over 300 instruments that are available for researchers around the world to use.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Joseph Wartman • RAPID FacilityJanuary 22, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Opening of Rutherford and Son, Faculty Dance Concert, and more.
This week in the arts, attend a lecture about Asian porcelain near the Red Sea in the early eighteenth century, catch the first night of Rutherford and Son, listen to the UW Symphony and Seattle Symphony together at Benaroya Hall, and experience the Faculty Dance Concert, featuring choreographers Brian Brooks and Etienne Cakpo, plus four new…
Tag(s): Department of Dance • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music • Simpson Center for the Humanities • UW Drama
UW books in brief: Healthy travel, Hebrew in America, principals supporting teachers and more
Recent notable books by University of Washington faculty members explore the importance of Hebrew to modern America, remember the 1919 Seattle General Strike and look at issues in education, among other topics. Practical advice for healthy travel, near or far A new book by Dr. Christopher Sanford offers simple, practical recommendations for those traveling…
Tag(s): Anneke Markholt • books • Center for Educational Leadership • Christopher Sanford • Chuck Wolfe • College of Arts & Sciences • College of Built Environments • College of Education • Dan Berger • Department of History • Jackson School of International Studies • James Gregory • Joanna Michelson • Kimberly Mitchell • Margaret Morris • Margaret Willson • Naomi Sokoloff • Stephen Fink • Stroum Center for Jewish Studies • Susan Glenn • University of Washington Press • UW Bothell
Forefront, UW Tacoma receive Boeing grants for veteran career services, suicide prevention
Boeing has awarded $300,000 to Forefront Suicide Prevention and University of Washington Tacoma for work with veterans. Forefront, at the UW School of Social Work, received $205,000 to expand veteran-specific outreach, and UWT received $95,000 for career services for veterans.
Tag(s): Forefront • Jennifer Stuber • School of Social Work • UW TacomaJanuary 16, 2019
Three awards from US Department of Energy to fuel UW solar cell research
Three teams led by University of Washington researchers — Scott Dunham, Hugh Hillhouse and Devin MacKenzie — have received competitive awards totaling more than $2.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office for projects that will advance research and development in photovoltaic materials, which are an essential component of solar cells and impact the amount of sunlight that is converted into electricity.
Tag(s): Clean Energy Institute • clean or renewable energy • College of Engineering • Department of Chemical Engineering • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering • Department of Materials Science & Engineering • Department of Mechanical Engineering • Devin MacKenzie • Hugh Hillhouse • Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute • Scott Dunham • Washington Clean Energy Testbeds
ArtsUW Roundup: Guest Artist Recital, Preview and Opening of Rutherford and Son, and more
This week in the arts, partake in an exhibition opening with Danny Giles, the 2019 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident, attend the preview of a School of Drama production, and more! Guest Artist Recital Tony Cho, Piano and David Bowlin, Violin January 17, 7:30 PM| Brechmin Auditorium Oberlin Conservatory colleagues Tony Cho, piano, and David Bowlin, violin,…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Dance • Jacob Lawrence Gallery • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music
For 35 years, the Pacific Ocean has largely spared West’s mountain snow from effects of global warming
A new study has found that since the early 1980s, a pattern of ocean temperatures and atmospheric circulation has offset most of the impact of warming on the West’s mountain snowpack.
Tag(s): climate • climate change • College of the Environment • Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies • weather
UW opens Othello Commons in Southeast Seattle
The University of Washington today opened the doors to Othello-UW Commons, a new multifunctional partnership space in the heart of Southeast Seattle’s Othello neighborhood.
Tag(s): College of Education • College of the Environment • Continuum College • Evans School of Public Policy & Governance • Gates Foundation • School of Nursing • School of Public Health • School of Social Work • Undergraduate Academic Affairs • UW Alumni AssociationJanuary 15, 2019
Esports Arena & Gaming Lounge to open at University of Washington
Esports — the phenomenally popular world of competitive video games — soon will have a home at the University of Washington.
This spring, the UW’s Husky Union Building (HUB) will officially open the doors to the HUB Esports Arena & Gaming Lounge – a full-service, state-of-the-art gaming center that supports both casual and competitive gaming and virtual reality. The 1,000 square-foot space will serve as the epicenter between student communities, business communities and gaming culture in the Northwest.
Tag(s): Esports • HUB
Researchers can predict childhood social transitions
A new University of Washington study suggests that the children most apt to socially transition to the gender “opposite” their sex at birth are those who already demonstrate the strongest “cross-gender” identities, and that the transitions don’t appear to alter a child’s gender identity or preferences.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Psychology • Kristina OlsonJanuary 14, 2019
UW, partners reach milestone in program using robots to monitor world’s oceans
The UW is part of an international program that has revolutionized ocean measurements. This fall, the program made its 2 millionth measurement, reporting temperature and salinity in the top mile of the world’s oceans.
Tag(s): Alison Gray • College of the Environment • oceanography • robotics • School of Oceanography • Stephen Riser
Labor Archives of Washington, partners, to celebrate centennial of 1919 Seattle General Strike
The Labor Archives of Washington, housed in UW Libraries, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Seattle General Strike with a series of events in coming weeks, as well as a new library exhibit on campus.
Tag(s): Conor Casey • Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies • James Gregory • Labor Archives of Washington • UW Libraries
Seattle bike share programs show infrequent helmet use, little disparity in access to bikes among neighborhoods
People riding free-floating bike share rentals in Seattle are wearing helmets infrequently, according to a new analysis conducted by University of Washington researchers. Only 20 percent of bike share riders wore helmets in the study, while more than 90 percent of cyclists wore helmets while riding their own bikes.
Different research on the free-floating bike share systems showed that bikes were usually available in all Seattle neighborhoods across economic, racial and ethnic lines. However, more bikes were located in more-advantaged neighborhoods.
Tag(s): School of Public Health • Stephen MooneyJanuary 10, 2019
Astronomers find signatures of a ‘messy’ star that made its companion go supernova
On Jan. 10 at the 2019 American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, an international team of astronomers announced that they have identified the type of companion star that made its partner in a binary system, a carbon-oxygen white dwarf star, explode. Through repeated observations of SN 2015cp, a supernova 545 million light years away, the team detected hydrogen-rich debris that the companion star had shed prior to the explosion.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Astronomy • Melissa Graham
Evans School researchers study options for possible Washington public bank
If Washington state were to establish a public bank, what type of bank might work best? One that can provide targeted products and services to local governments across the state, says a new report by UW researchers from the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.
Tag(s): Evans School of Public Policy & Governance • Hugh Spitzer • Justin MarloweJanuary 9, 2019
ARTSUW Roundup: Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Indigo Mist with Special Guest Bill Frisell, and more
This week in the arts, attend the first Critical Issues Lecture with Maria Nordman, go to a performance by UW Music faculty band, Indigo Mist, with renowned guitarist Bill Frisell, and more! Critical Issues Lecture Series: Maria Nordman January 10, 7:00 PM| Henry Art Gallery Maria Nordman, a German-American sculptor and conceptual artist, will deliver…
Tag(s): Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Music
Minority Ph.D. students in STEM fare better with clear expectations, acceptance
Women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields are more likely to advance professionally, publish more research and secure postdoctoral and faculty positions if their institutional culture is welcoming and sets clear expectations, according to a study of hundreds of Ph.D. students at four top-tier California research universities.
Tag(s): Mark Richards
First smartphone app to detect opioid overdose and its precursors
UW researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses sonar to monitor someone’s breathing rate and sense when an opioid overdose has occurred.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine • Jacob Sunshine • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering • School of Medicine • Shyam GollakotaJanuary 8, 2019
Triangulum Galaxy shows stunning face in detailed Hubble portrait
As part of a University of Washington-led project, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced a stunningly detailed portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, displaying a full spiral face aglow with the light of nearly 25 million individually resolved stars.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • Benjamin Williams • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Astronomy • Julianne DalcantonJanuary 7, 2019
UW study: Long-term breastfeeding sheds light on whether an infant becomes right- or left-handed
Bottle feeding infants is associated with left-handedness, according to a new study from the University of Washington. The study found that the prevalence of left-handedness is lower among breastfed infants as compared to bottle-fed infants. This finding was identified in about 60,000 mother-infant pairs and accounted for known risk factors for handedness.
Tag(s): Phillipe Hujoel • School of Dentistry • School of Public HealthJanuary 2, 2019
UW mourns the death of Blake Nordstrom
Statements from University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce, director of athletics Jennifer Cohen and men’s rowing head coach Michael Callahan
The number of single male Magellanic penguins is rising at this breeding colony. Here’s why.
Female Magellanic penguins are more likely to die at sea as juveniles, which has caused a skewed sex ratio of nearly three adult males to every female, as well as population decline of more than 40 percent since 1987 at one of their largest breeding colonies — Punta Tombo in Argentina.
Tag(s): Center for Ecosystem Sentinels • College of Arts & Sciences • conservation • Dee Boersma • Department of Biology
Video: UW Husky football players mentor Seattle youth
Husky football players, including Myles Gaskin and JoJo McIntosh, mentor teens each week as part of a program hosted by the Yesler Community Center in Seattle.
Tag(s): athletes • Myles Gaskin • UW football
How economic theory and the Netflix Prize could make research funding more efficient
In a paper published Jan. 2 in PLOS Biology, two scientists at the University of Washington and North Carolina State University use the economic theory of contests to illustrate how the competitive grant-application system has made the pursuit of research funding inefficient and unsustainable — and that alternative methods, such as a partial lottery to award grants, could relieve pressure on professors and free up time for research.
Tag(s): Carl Bergstrom • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of BiologyDecember 24, 2018
New global migration estimates show rates proportionally steady since 1990, high rate of return migration
Two University of Washington scientists have unveiled a new statistical method for estimating migration flows between countries. They show that rates of migration are higher than previously thought, but also relatively stable, fluctuating between 1.1 and 1.3 percent of global population from 1990 to 2015. In addition, since 1990 approximately 45 percent of migrants have returned to their home countries, a much higher estimate than other methods.
Tag(s): Adrian Raftery • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Sociology • Department of Statistics • immigrationDecember 19, 2018
Researchers develop a new houseplant that can clean your home’s air
Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Stuart StrandDecember 18, 2018
February’s big patch of open water off Greenland? Not global warming, says new analysis
New analysis shows that odd winds, not warming, caused the unusual patch of open water north of Greenland last February.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • Axel Schweiger • polar science • Polar Science Center • sea ice« Previous Page Next Page »
