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November 17, 2021
UW’s Interrupting Privilege expands with new website, celebration
Not long after the 2016 general election, faculty at the University of Washington’s Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity (CCDE) recognized a need for students, especially BIPOC students, to talk about their experience of race.
Tag(s): Center for Communication Difference and Equity • Ralina JosephNovember 11, 2021
Video: UW pauses to recognize those with military service
The University of Washington’s annual Veterans Day ceremony, held on Thursday at the Medal of Honor Memorial near Red Square, featured music by the Husky Marching Band and a formation of UW Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets.
Tag(s): Office of Student Veteran Life
Deforestation, climate change linked to more worker deaths and unsafe conditions
Outdoor workers in the world’s lower-latitude tropical forests may face a greater risk of heat-related deaths and unsafe working conditions because of deforestation and climate warming, according to a study led by The Nature Conservancy, the University of Washington and Indonesia’s Mulawarman University. In the study, researchers found that increased temperatures of 0.95 C (1.7…
Tag(s): climate change • David Battisti • Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences • Department of Global Health • Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation • June Spector • Kristie Ebi • Population Health Initiative • School of Public HealthNovember 10, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Political Science Faculty Panel: Is Democracy Dead?, Benaroya Lecture, and More
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week! This week, attend lectures, exhibitions, and more. Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. Sharing Indigenous Knowledge Across Boundaries: Fishing Sovereignty in Alaska and British Columbia November 16, 11:00 AM…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Canadian Studies Center • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of English • Department of Geography • Department of Political Science • Henry Art Gallery • Jackson School of International Studies • Jacob Lawrence Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • Meany Hall for the Performing Arts • Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Public notice: Determination of non-significance for Interdisciplinary Engineering Building
Pursuant to the provisions of WAC 197-11-340 and WAC 478-324-140, the University of Washington hereby provides public notice of: Determination of non-significance
Public notice: Determination of non-significance for IMA pool expansion
Pursuant to the provisions of WAC 197-11-340 and WAC 478-324-140, the University of Washington hereby provides public notice of this determination of non-significance.
New method shows today’s warming ‘unprecedented’ over past 24,000 years
A new effort to reconstruct Earth’s climate since the last ice age, about 24,000 years ago, highlights the main drivers of climate change, and how far out of bounds human activity has pushed the climate system.
Tag(s): climate change • College of the Environment • Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science • Gregory HakimNovember 8, 2021
US Department of Education renews five-year, $1.9M grant for University of Washington Educational Talent Search program
As students resume in-person classroom education, University of Washington staff with the Educational Talent Search (ETS) program also move back into 14 partner middle and high schools in six Washington school districts, helping them gain the skills and confidence to pursue a college degree.
Tag(s): Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
Creating a supportive environment for veterans, UW pauses to recognize those with military service
Arriving at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, Brandon Green had a familiar feeling of disorientation.
Green, 33, who transferred to the UW from Everett Community College after spending seven years as a U.S. Army medic, had travelled the U.S. and the globe, including two tours in Afghanistan. He’d undergone rigorous training and knew what it was like to deploy to foreign, often dangerous places.
Even with all that experience, college life was different.
Tag(s): Student Veteran Life • UW Bothell • UW Tacoma • veterans
Political ads during the 2020 presidential election cycle collected personal information and spread misleading information
University of Washington researchers looked at almost 56,000 political ads from almost 750 news sites between September 2020 and January 2021.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • elections & government • Eric Zeng • Franziska Roesner • Miranda Wei • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering • Tadayoshi KohnoNovember 5, 2021
From the land of the Reindeer People to Red Square: Teacher brings the Mongolian language to the UW
Azjargal Amarsanaa, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, is teaching the Mongolian language to UW students for the 2021-22 academic year. It’s the first chance UW students have had to learn Mongolian in 15 years.
Tag(s): Azjargal Amarsanaa • College of Arts & Sciences • East Asia Center • Jackson School of International Studies • Paul Carrington
ArtSci Roundup: DXARTS Fall Concert: Real & Imagined Soundworlds, The Importance of Being Earnest, and More
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week! This week, attend lectures, concerts, and more. Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. DXARTS Fall Concert: Real & Imagined Soundworlds November 9, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall–Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of English • Department of Political Science • Department of Sociology • Department of Statistics • DXARTS • Henry Art Gallery • Jackson School of International Studies • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • Meany Hall for the Performing Arts • School of Drama • UW Honors ProgramNovember 4, 2021
Video: Standard time is better for us, UW expert says
On Sunday, Nov. 7 we switch from daylight saving time to standard time. A University of Washington expert in circadian rhythms says that’s a good thing.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • Horacio de la IglesiaNovember 2, 2021
UW wins funding for ‘clinic’ to help community navigate technology
When people need legal advice but can’t afford a lawyer, they often turn to legal clinics where law students can offer representation and advocacy. When community organizations need advice on technology, they soon will be able to turn to a similar type of clinic at the University of Washington.
Tag(s): Information School • Jason Young • Nicholas Weber • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & EngineeringNovember 1, 2021
UW receives $2M from National Science Foundation to design an ‘adaptable society’
A team led by the University of Washington has received a nearly $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to further research into how urban societal systems can be organized to be both efficient and resilient.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Cynthia Chen • Department of Civil & Environmental EngineeringOctober 29, 2021
UW oceanographer will study how glacial particles remove CO2 from atmosphere
An oceanographer at the University of Washington is part of a new project to study how glacial dust, created as glaciers grind the rock beneath them into a powder, reacts with seawater to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Tag(s): Alex Gagnon • climate change • College of the Environment • oceanography • School of Oceanography
ArtSci Roundup: Global Month
November is UW Global Month! UW Global Month celebrates our University’s global impact and community. During the month of November, we highlight the connections and relationships the UW has all over the world and the impact of our University’s global engagement. Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have…
Tag(s): Ana Mari Cauce • ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Comparative History of Ideas Program • Department of English • Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies • Henry Art Gallery • Jackson School of International Studies • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • Meany Hall for the Performing Arts • Middle East Center • Population Health Initiative • Simpson Center for the Humanities • South Asia Center • Space Policy and Research Center
How public pension funds can help address climate change
Ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference that begins Oct. 31, the University of Washington’s Michael McCann and Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer talk about the extensive investment of public pension funds — the retirement plan of millions of U.S. workers — in fossil fuels.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Political Science • Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies • Michael McCann • Riddhi Mehta-NeugebauerOctober 28, 2021
Video: UW Farm’s Perry Acworth talks about pumpkins large and small
Perry Acworth, UW Farm manager, talks about different varieties of winter squash — from the palm-sized pie pumpkin to Cucurbita maxima, which can produce giant pumpkins.
Tag(s): Perry Acworth • UW Botanic Gardens • UW Farm
Video: Great ShakeOut drill tests new earthquake early warning system
At 10:21 a.m. on Oct. 21, teacher Wade Johnson’s science class at Port Susan Middle School scrambled under their desks as part of the annual Great American ShakeOut. It was Stanwood Camano School District’s first live test of its earthquake early warning system with all 13 of its schools participating in a “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” drill.
Tag(s): Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
Countermarketing based on anti-smoking campaigns reduces buying of sugary ‘fruit’ drinks for children
Public health messages such as in the image below — designed to reduce parents’ purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages marketed as fruit drinks for children — convinced a significant percentage of parents to avoid those drinks, according to a study by researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania. The UW-led study set…
Tag(s): Health Systems and Population Health • Jim Krieger • Lina Pinero Walkinshaw • School of Public Health
How Dungeness crabs’ complex lifecycle will be affected by climate change
Results show that by the end of this century, lower-oxygen water on the Pacific Northwest coast will pose the biggest threat to Dungeness crabs. And while these crabs start as tiny, free-floating larvae, it’s the sharp-clawed adults that will be most vulnerable.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • climate change • College of the Environment • Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies • Jan Newton • oceanography • Samantha Siedlecki
After California’s 3rd-largest wildfire, deer returned home while trees were ‘still smoldering’
In a rare stroke of luck, researchers from the University of Washington, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, were able to track a group of black-tailed deer during and after California’s third-largest wildfire, the 2018 Mendocino Complex Fire. The megafire, which torched more than 450,000 acres in northern California, burned across half of an established study site, making it possible to record the movements and feeding patterns of deer before, during and after the fire.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Samantha Kreling • School of Environmental and Forest SciencesOctober 27, 2021
Rankings: UW among the best academic universities in the world, according to Times Higher Education
The University of Washington tied for No. 28 on the Times Higher Education annual reputation ranking, released Wednesday. The UW moved up one place from 2020.
Tag(s): Rankings
Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved
Many animals have tusks, from elephants to walruses to hyraxes. But one thing tusked animals have in common is that they’re all mammals — no known fish, reptiles or birds have them. But that was not always the case. In a study published Oct. 27 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of paleontologists at Harvard University, the Field Museum, the University of Washington and Idaho State University traced the first tusks back to dicynodonts — ancient mammal relatives that lived before the dinosaurs.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Christian Sidor • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • evolution • paleontologyOctober 26, 2021
UW rises to No. 7 in US News’ Best Global Universities ranking
The University of Washington climbed one spot to No. 7 on the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities rankings, released on Oct. 26. The UW maintained its No. 2 ranking among U.S. public institutions.
Tag(s): RankingsOctober 25, 2021
‘Self-care and resilience’ — UW’s Elaine Walsh discusses burnout among nurses
The pandemic has left nurses around the country feeling burned out. Their top four feelings, according to a recent survey? Exhausted, overwhelmed, irritable and anxious or unable to relax. UW News spoke with Elaine Walsh, a UW School of Nursing associate professor and a Nurse Scientist in Resiliency at Seattle Children’s Hospital, to learn more about the…
Tag(s): Elaine Walsh • School of Nursing • Seattle Children's HospitalOctober 21, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Maysoon Zayid – Survival of the Unfittest, BOOK TALK: Automation and Autonomy, and More
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week! This week, attend lectures, book talks, and more. Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. Maysoon Zayid – Survival of the Unfittest October 26, 6:30 PM | Meany Performing Arts…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Comparative Literature • Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies • Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies • Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • Meany Hall for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • UW Libraries
UW welcomes robust and diverse 2021 entering class
The University of Washington’s newest class of undergraduate students is robust and diverse, according to the finalized fall 2021 census of enrolled students.
October 20, 2021
Video: Highlights from 2021 Annual President’s Address
UW President Ana Mari Cauce delivered her 2021 annual address, sharing her perspective on the road ahead as we work together to recover from the pandemic and support equity and well-being for our community of faculty, staff and students.
Tag(s): Ana Mari Cauce
The Jackson School’s Taso Lagos reflects on becoming American at his family’s restaurant, the Continental
In 2013, Seattle’s U District neighborhood lost one of its most cherished businesses. The Continental Greek Restaurant and Pastry Shop, owned by the family of the Jackson School’s Taso Lagos, sat on University Way for nearly 40 years before closing its doors that June. Lagos looks back on the restaurant and what it meant to his family in a memoir due to be released this fall.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Jackson School of International Studies • Taso Lagos
UW students designed a rover to inspect culvert conditions to help fish
UW students created a rover that can inspect sewer pipes or culverts for any damage that could prevent fish from using them during migration.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • COVID-19 • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering • Faisal HossainOctober 15, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Frontiers of Physics Lecture, Chamber Dance Company: 30th Anniversary Season, and More
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week! This week, attend performances, lectures, and more. Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. Frontiers of Physics Lecture: Gravity: The Biggest Open Question in Fundamental Physics October 20, 7:30 – 9:00…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Chamber Dance Company • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Dance • Department of Physics • Department of Political Science • Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies • Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • Meany Hall for the Performing Arts • Stroum Center for Jewish StudiesOctober 13, 2021
Rankings: UW among best in world for education, social sciences, business and law
The University of Washington is among the best universities in the world for the studies of education, social sciences, business and law, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2022.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • College of Education • Department of Communication • Department of Economics • Department of Geography • Department of Political Science • Department of Sociology • Foster School of Business • Jackson School of International Studies • Rankings • School of LawOctober 11, 2021
UW Resilience Lab aims to change campus culture toward compassion and mindfulness
Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Ed Taylor chats with Director of the UW Resilience Lab Megan Kennedy about how students, faculty and staff can create a more supportive, compassionate environment in which to learn and discover as the University of Washington community comes back to the campuses and recovers from the traumas of the last two years.
Tag(s): Brooke Sullivan • Center for Child and Family Well-Being • Ching-In Chen • Department of Communication • Ed Taylor • Megan Kennedy • Ralina Joseph • Resilience LabOctober 6, 2021
Rankings: UW among best in world for computer science and engineering
The University of Washington is among the best universities in the world for the studies of computer science and engineering, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2022.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering • Rankings
How ‘ice needles’ weave patterns of stones in frozen landscapes
A University of Washington researcher is part of an international team that has used modern tools to explain repeating patterns of stones that form in frost-prone landscapes.
Tag(s): Bernard Hallet • College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space SciencesOctober 5, 2021
Education should focus on ‘heads and hearts,’ UW researcher says
In a Policy Forum piece published Oct. 1 in Science, a group led by Nesra Yannier at Carnegie Mellon University is advocating for a fresh look at active learning and its potential as classrooms and lecture halls again fill with students. Two co-authors from the University of Washington’s Department of Biology — assistant teaching professor Elli Theobald and lecturer emeritus Scott Freeman — highlight the role that active learning methods have in promoting equity STEM education.
Tag(s): Biology Education Research Group • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • Elli Theobald • Q&A
UW joins USAID’s $125M project to detect emerging viruses with pandemic potential
To better identify and prevent future pandemics, the University of Washington has become a partner in a five-year global, collaborative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development. The newly launched Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens – Viral Zoonoses, or DEEP VZN project, has approximately $125 million in anticipated funding and will be led…
Tag(s): Alex Greninger • Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences • Department of Epidemiology • Department of Global Health • International Training and Education Center for Health • Judith Wasserheit • Peter Rabinowitz • population health • School of MedicineOctober 4, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Math Bass: a picture stuck in the mirror, The World of Noh Drama with Takeda Munenori, and More
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, lectures, and more. Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT. Math Bass: a picture stuck in the mirror October 16 – March 6 | Henry…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Asian Languages & Literature • Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • Meany Hall for the Performing Arts • Stroum Center for Jewish Studies« Previous Page Next Page »
