Research
December 1, 2010
Neuroscience of instinct: How animals overcome fear to obtain food
Animals are capable of making instinctive safety decisions, a UW researcher has learned. Professor of Psychology Jeansok Kim demonstrated that rats weigh their odds of safely retrieving food pellets placed at varying distances from a perceived predator.
November 17, 2010
Scientists question widely adopted indicator of fisheries health and evidence for ‘fishing down marine food webs
The most widely used measure for assessing oceans and fisheries led to inaccurate conclusions about half the time it was used, according to research led by a UW fisheries scientist.
November 15, 2010
Scented consumer products shown to emit many unlisted chemicals
Widely used fragranced products — including those that claim to be “green” — give off many chemicals that are not listed on the label, including some that are toxic, a UW study found.
November 8, 2010
UW losing 60-year tradition of salmon returning to campus
The decades-long tradition of salmon returning to campus each fall is ending because of new directions in fisheries research and budget cuts.
New book investigates the cost — and payoff — of great teaching
In “Profit of Education,” UW economics Professor Dick Startz says America’s public school system can be fixed if we raise teacher salaries 40 percent, which would pay for itself nine times over.
UW army ant expert advises on National Geographic’s ‘Great Migrations’
See some amazing video of army ants at work, including one in which they bring down prey many times larger than themselves.
August 19, 2010
Surf your way to a deep-ocean research expedition
Journey 300 miles off the Washington-Oregon coast and dive nearly a mile deep into the ocean as scientists and 20 students use underwater robots to explore, map and sample methane ice deposits, an underwater volcano and seafloor hot springs spewing water up to 570 degrees F.
Slow-moving ‘earthquake’ under Olympic Peninsula will be well recorded
UW seismologists have begun recording a slow-moving and unfelt seismic event under the Olympic Peninsula, and it promises to be the best-documented such event in the eight years since the regularly occurring phenomena were first discovered.
July 22, 2010
Donation leads to database, exhibit and book — all honoring the contribution of immigrants from South Asia
Call it a gift that just keeps giving, from a caring librarian.
October 18, 2007
EMP’s ‘American Sabor’ savors the Latino influence on American popular music
It’s possible to discuss American Sabor: Latinos in U.
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