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June 6, 2014
Ocean technology course ends spring quarter with a splash
A University of Washington undergraduate class has students design, build and test their own Internet-connected oceanographic sensors. The students are getting their feet wet, literally, in a new type of oceanography.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Ginger Armbrust • Miles Logsdon • School of Oceanography
International award cites UW for leadership in sustainability
The University of Washington is the only U.S. university named as a 2014 Sustainable Campus Excellence Award winner.
June 4, 2014
Back home again: UW ethnomusicologists return heritage music to its roots
The UW School of Music’s Ethnomusicology Program is helping to bring roots and hill music collected decades ago by folklorist Alan Lomax back to its place of origin, with teaching materials and local ceremonies.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Ethnomusicology Program • Patricia Campbell • School of Music
Arts Roundup: Drama, art — and University Symphony
As spring quarter comes to a close and summer quickly approaches, we encourage you to take advantage of some of the final arts events until next fall. Highlighting the week are a variety of performances from the School of Music, School of Drama’s “The Workroom” and the Undergraduate Theater Society’s “Dog Sees God.”
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music • Undergraduate Theater Society
It’s not giant asparagus: Nine-foot agave showing off at botany greenhouse
Stop outside the botany greenhouse to see an agave plant that’s grown a 9-foot-plus flower spike and is about to bloom for the first time in 25 years.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • Doug Ewing • UW GreenhouseJune 3, 2014
UW Health Digest
Recent UW health sciences news: E-health in small practices, summer safety, stopping farm worker assaults
UW Libraries hosts digital collection of activist Gary Greaves’ interviews
Interviews from the 1990s by Seattle-area activist Gary Greaves on how the area changed after the 1962 World’s Fair are now offered online by UW Libraries.
Tag(s): Frances McCue • Gary Greaves • UW LibrariesJune 2, 2014
UW experts offer free resources to help caregivers boost babies’ brains
UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences has a new online library to showcase the latest in how young children learn – and what their caregivers can do to help kids be ready to start school.
Tag(s): I-LABSMay 29, 2014
News digest: Empowering blind students, personal stories of identity, pro staff nominations
Compiled by the Office of News and Information.
Retirees honored for more than 10,000 years of service to UW
Some 480 faculty and staff members retired between spring 2013 and spring 2014 and were invited to the event earlier this month at the UW Club
Tag(s): awards • UW Retirement AssociationMay 28, 2014
Arts Roundup: Drama, Gospel — and the Burke trivia night
Rounding out spring quarter is a variety of events to keep you entertained. From the Undergraduate Theater Society’s production of “Dog Sees God” to various music performances presented by the School of Music at Meany Theater, prepare yourself for the rest of spring quarter because it’s looking bright!
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music • Undergraduate Theater Society
PTSD treatment cost-effective when patients given choice
A cost-analysis of post-traumatic stress disorder treatments shows that letting patients choose their course of treatment – either psychotherapy or medication – is less expensive than assigning a treatment and provides a higher quality of life for patients.
Tag(s): Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Psychology • Lori ZoellnerMay 27, 2014
Graduate student art, design projects exhibited at Henry Art Gallery
With autobiographical oil paintings, informational graphics, a wall-sized photomontage and sculptures resembling inside-out cameras, the annual spring exhibition of graduate student art at the Henry Art Gallery offers a lot for the visitor — as it does every year.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Henry Art Gallery • School of Art + Art History + Design
UW students, neighbors join forces down on the Union Bay ‘bayou’
Swamp once site of historic Yesler sawmill being restored with UW student and neighborhood help.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Ken Ewing • School of Environmental and Forest SciencesMay 22, 2014
Moves from a master: UW student dancers work with choreographer Robert Moses for new piece
UW undergraduate and alumni dancers work with with famed choreographer Robert Moses to create the piece “Draft,” one of five pieces to be performed by Robert Moses’ Kin May 29-31 in the Meany Studio Theatre. Read the story and watch a film by UWVideo.
Tag(s): Jennifer Salk • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • Michelle Witt • Robert Moses
Sociologist Robert Crutchfield examines the relationship between work and crime in ‘Get a Job’
In his new book, “Get a Job: Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime,” University of Washington sociologist Robert Crutchfield explains the nuanced links between work, unemployment and crime.
Tag(s): Robert Crutchfield • sociologyMay 21, 2014
Marine apprenticeships give UW undergrads role in animal-ancestor breakthrough
Comb jellies – and not sponges – may lay claim as the earliest ancestors of animals, according to new research in Nature.
Tag(s): Billie Swalla • College of Arts & Sciences • College of the Environment • Department of Biology • Friday Harbor Laboratories
Arts Roundup: Music, dance – and ‘The Workroom’
As we head into a long weekend, take the time to indulge in some of the innovative performances and exhibits happening on campus.
Tag(s): Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of MusicMay 20, 2014
Health Sciences Digest: Alcoholism in homeless, medical phone apps, aging with chronic disability
Designing medical apps for your phone, treating alcohol-dependent homeless individuals, and enhancing wellness in older disabled adults are some of the developments at the UW Health Sciences and UW Medicine
Tag(s): aging • alcohol use & abuse • homelessness
Shrub growth decreases as winter temps warm up
Many have assumed that warmer winters as a result of climate change would increase the growth of trees and shrubs because the growing season would be longer. But shrubs achieve less yearly growth when cold winter temperatures are interrupted by temperatures warm enough to trigger growth.
Tag(s): climate change • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • Melanie HarschMay 19, 2014
Favoritism, not hostility, causes most discrimination, says UW psychology professor
Most discrimination in the U.S. is not caused by intention to harm people different from us, but by ordinary favoritism directed at helping people similar to us, according to a theoretical review published online in American Psychologist.
Tag(s): Anthony Greenwald • bias & discrimination • health care and mental healthMay 16, 2014
Filmmaker Werner Herzog examined in new book of interviews
Eric Ames, UW professor of Germanics and editor of the new book, “Werner Herzog: Interviews,” discusses the work.
Tag(s): Department of Germanics • Eric Ames • Werner HerzogMay 15, 2014
News Digest: New cherry trees, Mushroom May-nia, autism assessments, Honor: Daily staff
Compiled by the Office of News and Information.
Tag(s): cherry blossomsMay 14, 2014
$31M gift will fund early stage UW research by high-tech entrepreneurs
The University of Washington is receiving a $31.2 million gift from Washington Research Foundation to boost entrepreneurship and support research that tackles some of society’s most crucial challenges. The award will fund four interdisciplinary initiatives that seek to advance global innovation in clean energy, protein design, big data science and neuroengineering.
Tag(s): Center for Neurotechnology • Clean Energy Institute • clean or renewable energy • College of Engineering • eScience Institute • Institute for Protein Design • Mary Lidstrom • Michael K. Young
Arts Roundup: Dance, opera – and the University District Street Fair
Dance, opera, exhibition openings and the Roethke Reading fill this especially busy week in the arts. From the MFA Dance Concert to School of Music and Pacific MusicWorks’ production of G.F. Handel’s “Semele,” there’s plenty to see and do on the main stages.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of English • Henry Art Gallery • School of Art + Art History + Design • UW LibrariesMay 13, 2014
Health Digest: Cutbacks jeopardize newborns, safe water, MERS facts
The costly effects of cutbacks on maternal/child services, assuring a pure water supply, and what you need to know about Middle East respiratory syndrome.
Tag(s): health care and mental health • microbes and viruses • water management
Focus on research: Undergraduates bring findings alive Friday
Join your colleagues at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday, May 16.
Tag(s): Undergraduate Academic Affairs • undergraduate research
Video stories, other bonding exercises could help foster families connect
Researchers affiliated with the UW’s School of Social Work tailored a parenting program known to improve communication in non-foster families for use in foster families, who often say they don’t feel connected and have trouble communicating, but few resources exist that nurture their bonding.
Tag(s): Partners for Our Children • School of Social WorkMay 12, 2014
Improve grades, reduce failure – undergrads should tell profs ‘Don’t lecture me’
A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture-style than fail with active learning according to the largest analysis ever of studies comparing lecturing to active learning in undergraduate education
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • Mary Wenderoth • Scott Freeman
West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse is under way
The collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has begun, according to computer models using detailed topographic maps. The fast-moving Thwaites Glacier will likely disappear in a matter of centuries, researchers say, raising sea level by nearly 2 feet.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • climate change • College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • glaciers • Ian Joughin • polar science
Washington housing market weaker in first quarter of 2014
Washington state’s housing market finished weaker in the first quarter of 2014 when compared to the end of 2013, according to the UW’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies.
Tag(s): Andy Krause • home sales • Runstad Department of Real Estate • Stephen O'ConnorMay 9, 2014
Memorial June 8 for historian Stephanie Camp
Stephanie Camp, University of Washington associate professor of history, died on Wednesday, April 2. There will be a memorial service and reception in remembrance and celebration of Camp’s life at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 8, in Kane Hall room 210.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of History • Stephanie CampMay 8, 2014
UW regents briefed on efforts to address sexual assault prevention, response
The Board of Regents heard an update Thursday on implementing recommendations from a task force on sexual assault prevention and response on all three UW campuses.
Documents that Changed the World: Airline ‘black box’ flight data recorder, 1958
Recent headlines sadly explain why Joe Janes chose the latest installment in his Documents that Changed the World podcast series — he’s writing about airline flight data recorders, or “black boxes.”
Tag(s): Documents that Changed the World • Information School • Joe Janes
Army drug users twice as likely to use synthetic marijuana as regular marijuana
Social work researchers from the University of Washington have found that among a group of active-duty Army personnel who use illicit drugs, the most abused substance is synthetic marijuana, nicknamed “Spice,” which is harder to detect than other drugs through standard drug tests.
Tag(s): Denise Walker • drug use • School of Social Work • Tom WaltonMay 7, 2014
UW building teleoperated robots for disaster response in national challenge
University of Washington electrical engineers have developed telerobotics technology that could make disaster response faster and more efficient. They are working with a large team as part of the SmartAmerica Challenge, an initiative that encourages new technologies that help society in our increasingly connected world.
Tag(s): Center for Commercialization • College of Engineering • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering • Fredrik Ryden • Howard Chizeck
Greenland melting due equally to global warming, natural variations
Up to half of the recent warming in Greenland and surrounding areas may be due to climate variations that originate in the tropical Pacific and are not connected with the overall warming of the planet. Still, at least half the warming remains attributable to global warming caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions.
Tag(s): climate change • College of the Environment • David Battisti • Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • Eric Steig • Greenland • Mike Wallace • polar science • Qinghua Ding
Arts Roundup: Dance, music – and IMPFest
This week, enjoy a bevy of events that range from the Painting + Drawing exhibition at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery to IMPFest at the Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse.
Tag(s): Henry Art Gallery • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Music
UW student briefs lawmakers on global land use, touts undergrad research
At an event in Washington, D.C. a UW biology student presented her research into the global connections between consumers and goods that come from agriculture and forest production.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • Department of GeographyMay 6, 2014
UW scientist a lead author on third National Climate Assessment
University of Washington climate scientist Amy Snover is one of two lead authors for the Northwest chapter of the newly published National Climate Assessment.
Tag(s): Amy Snover • Climate Impacts Group • College of the Environment« Previous Page Next Page »
