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October 4, 2019
New metasurface design can control optical fields in three dimensions
A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science Advances, their designed optical element focuses light to discrete points in a 3D helical pattern.
Tag(s): Arka Majumdar • College of Arts & Sciences • College of Engineering • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering • Department of Physics • Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems • Molecular Engineering & Sciences InstituteOctober 2, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: New Burke Opening, Marianne Stecher lectures for Scandinavian 30, Composite Gestures closing soon, and more
This week in the arts, attend a Chamber Dance Company concert, view photographs from the Henry’s collections, reflect on the race of contemporary ballet, and more. Katja Petrowskaja: A Family Story Between Memory and Forgetting October 7, 6 – 8 pm | Communications Building In conversation with Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich (Slavic, Jewish Studies), Katja Petrowskaja will discuss her 2013…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Chamber Dance Company • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Dance • Department of Scandinavian Studies • Department of Slavic Languages and Literature • Henry Art Gallery • Jackson School of International Studies • Jacob Lawrence Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music • Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
UW statement on investigation into the conduct of professor John Sahr
University of Washington statement on the investigation into the conduct of professor John Sahr.
Abigail Swann on Science News’ list of 10 young scientists to watch
The University of Washington’s Abigail Swann is honored by Science News on its list of 10 promising early- and mid-career scientists.
Tag(s): Abigail Swann • College of Arts & Sciences • College of the Environment • Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science • Department of Biology
Inspired by Northern clingfish, researchers make a better suction cup
A University of Washington team inspired by the clingfish’s suction power set out to develop an artificial suction cup that borrows from nature’s design. Their prototype actually performed better than the clingfish.
Tag(s): Adam Summers • College of Arts & Sciences • College of the Environment • Department of Biology • Friday Harbor Laboratories • Petra Ditsche • School of Aquatic and Fishery SciencesOctober 1, 2019
Engineering lecture series focuses on future of food
This fall the University of Washington’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three UW engineers and scientists who are working across disciplines to manage the quality and quantity of the food we eat and grow.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • College of the Environment • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Faisal Hossain • Gordon Holtgrieve • Rebecca Neumann • School of Aquatic and Fishery SciencesSeptember 27, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Lecture with Art History professors, dance performance, South Asian film symposium, and more
Start Fall Quarter artfully by attending a welcome back dance party, purchasing your tickets for Burke Opening Weekend, attending a concert, and more. Concert: Garrick Ohlsson October 1, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall – Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater Seattle favorite Garrick Ohlsson returns to Meany Center with a program of Brahms and Chopin. Regarded as a…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Asian Languages & Literature • Department of Dance • Department of Slavic Languages and Literature • Henry Art Gallery • Jackson School of International Studies • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • Meany Hall for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music • Stroum Center for Jewish StudiesSeptember 26, 2019
Pay, flexibility, advancement: They all matter for workers’ health and safety, study shows
The terms and conditions of your employment — including your pay, hours, schedule flexibility and job security — influence your overall health as well as your risk of being injured on the job, according to new research from the University of Washington. The analysis takes a comprehensive approach to show that the overall pattern of…
Tag(s): Anjum Hajat • Brian P. Flaherty • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences • Department of Psychology • Noah Seixas • School of Public Health • Trevor Peckham
Income gains for many, but no change in poverty rates for Seattle and King County
The share of Washingtonians living below the federal poverty threshold declined from 11.0 to 10.3 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to new Census data released Thursday.
Tag(s): Jennifer Romich • School of Social Work • West Coast Poverty Center
Galaxy found to float in a tranquil sea of halo gas
An international team of astronomers has analyzed the signal from a fast radio burst — an enigmatic blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond — to characterize the diffuse gas in the halo of a massive galaxy.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Astronomy • Matthew McQuinnSeptember 25, 2019
Fish micronutrients ‘slipping through the hands’ of malnourished people
Millions of people are suffering from malnutrition despite some of the most nutritious fish species in the world being caught near their homes, according to new research published Sept. 25 in Nature.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Edward Allison • School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Joel Migdal, founder of International Studies Program, to mark UW retirement with public lecture, workshop, Oct. 3
Joel S. Migdal, professor in the UW Jackson School of International Studies, will celebrate retirement after 39 years at the UW on Oct. 3 with a daylong workshop featuring current and former students, followed by a lecture on “State and Society: Then and Now.”
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Political Science • Jackson School of International Studies • Joel MigdalSeptember 23, 2019
Soundbites: UW convocation 2019
Convocation welcomes the entering class and officially marks the beginning of the academic year, with classes starting Sept. 25. More than 6,000 people were expected to attend this year’s event.
Tag(s): Ana Mari Cauce
Video: New UW students welcomed at 2019 convocation
Convocation welcomes the entering class and officially marks the beginning of the academic year. UW classes begin Sept. 25. More than 6,000 people were expected to attend this year’s event.
Tag(s): Ana Mari Cauce • Denzil Suite • Mark Richards • UW convocationSeptember 20, 2019
Video: 2019 move-in days for campus Huskies
The University of Washington welcomed nearly 10,000 students during Husky move-in days Sept. 18-20.
Tag(s): Denzil Suite • Move-in day • Office of Student life
Two UW ice researchers to participate in year-long drift across Arctic Ocean
Two UW researchers — Bonnie Light, a principal physicist at the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory and an affiliate associate professor of atmospheric sciences, and Madison Smith, a recent UW graduate who is now doing her postdoctoral research at the UW — will join for the fifth of the six two-month legs, in summer 2020.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • Bonnie Light • climate change • College of the Environment • Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science • polar science • Polar Science Center
Soundbites: 2019 move-in days for Huskies
The University of Washington is welcoming nearly 10,000 students who will live on campus this fall during Husky move-in days Sept. 18-20.
ArtsUW Roundup: Visit Arts Buzz at Dawg Daze, buy tickets to the Burke Opening Weekend, and more
In the arts, attend an opening reception at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, hear from School of Art + Art History + Design faculty, visit the Allen Library for a concert, and more! School of Art + Art History + Design Faculty Lectures Six faculty members will each give presentations during autumn quarter as part of the…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Dance • DXARTS • Henry Art Gallery • Jacob Lawrence Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music • UW LibrariesSeptember 19, 2019
New student convocation Sept. 22 opens UW’s 2019-2020 school year
University of Washington communication professor Matt McGarrity, founder of the UW Speaking Center, will be the featured speaker at the university’s 36th annual Convocation. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, in the Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
Tag(s): UW convocation
Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies receives $1.8M grant
The UW Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies has received a $1.8 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will fund four years of work at the UW around Native student support, academics, research and cultural programs.
Tag(s): Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies • Chadwick Allen • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of American Indian Studies • Jean Dennison
Introducing VPLanet: A virtual planet simulator for modeling distant worlds across time
UW astrobiologist Rory Barnes and co-authors have created software that simulates multiple aspects of planetary evolution across billions of years, with an eye toward finding and studying potentially habitable worlds.
Tag(s): astrobiology • Astrobiology Program • Benjamin Guyer • Caitlyn Wilhelm • Cecilia Bitz • College of Arts & Sciences • David Fleming • Department of Astronomy • Diego McDonald • Hayden Smotherman • Pramod Gupta • Rodolfo Garcia • Rory Barnes • Tom Quinn • Victoria Meadows • Virtual Planetary Laboratory
Plasma flow near sun’s surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena
A new model for plasma flow within the sun provides novel explanations for sunspots, the 11-year sunspot cycle, solar magnetic reversals and other previously unexplained solar phenomena.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics • space science • Thomas JarboeSeptember 16, 2019
UW is a ‘Great College to Work For’
The University of Washington has been recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for the sixth consecutive year, according to a new survey from The Great Colleges to Work For program.
Tag(s): University of Washington
Americans would rather drive themselves to work than have an autonomous vehicle drive them, study says
Are you willing to ride in a driverless car? Researchers at the University of Washington studied how Americans’ perceived cost of commute time changes depending on who’s driving.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • Don MacKenzie • Sustainable Transportation Lab
KATRIN cuts the mass estimate for the elusive neutrino in half
An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe. At the 2019 Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics conference in Toyama, Japan, leaders from the KATRIN experiment reported Sept. 13 that the estimated range for the rest mass of the neutrino is no larger than 1 electron volt, or eV.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Physics • Hamish Robertson • Peter Doe • physicsSeptember 12, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Hugo House documentary, exhibition opening at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, concert in the library, and more!
In the arts, attend a film screening about Hugo House produced by Frances McCue and directed by Ryan K. Adams, go to an exhibition opening at Jacob Lawrence Gallery, buy tickets for the New Burke Opening, and more! Hugo House documentary “Where the House Was” September 21, 7:30 pm | Northwest Film Form For almost…
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Continuum College • Department of English • Jacob Lawrence Gallery • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Music • UW Libraries
Enhancing the way epilepsy is managed by engaging community pharmacists
The University of Washington’s School of Pharmacy announced on Thursday, Sept. 12, a collaboration with global biopharmaceutical company UCB to improve access to care for people living with epilepsy.This interdisciplinary project will explore ways in which community pharmacists can better support people living with this neurological disorder. The roughly 3.4 million people nationally and 75,000…
Tag(s): Andy Stergachis • Bryan Weiner • Edward Novotny • Jennifer Bacci • John Miller • Population Health Initiative • Sabra Zarâa • School of Pharmacy • Steve WhiteSeptember 11, 2019
UW at No. 26 in the world, fourth among U.S. public institutions, on Times Higher Education ranking list
The University of Washington has been ranked No. 26 on the Times Higher Education world rankings for 2020, released Wednesday. The UW moved up two places from 2019.
Tag(s): RankingsSeptember 10, 2019
Hugo House documentary ‘Where the House Was’ to debut Sept. 21 at Northwest Film Forum
“Where the House Was,” a new, 58-minute documentary produced by France McCue, UW senior lecturer in English, tells of the old location for Hugo House, the place for writer, and its subsequent demolition.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of English • Frances McCue • Ryan K. Adams • Simpson Center for the Humanities
New coalition to address lack of access, resources for youth physical activity in King County
A report released Sept. 10 — the product of research led by the University of Washington — gives Seattle and King County a “D” in getting youth active through sport, play and outdoor recreation.
Tag(s): Center for Leadership in Athletics • College of Education • Julie McCleery
Tides don’t always flush water out to sea, study shows
Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Strathclyde report that, in Willapa Bay in Washington state, the water washing over the tidal flats during high tides is largely the same water that washed over the flats during the previous high tide. This “old” water has not been mixed in with “new” water from deeper parts of the bay or the open Pacific Ocean, and has different chemical and biological properties, such as lower levels of food for creatures within the tide flats.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • Jennifer Ruesink • oceanographySeptember 9, 2019
UW-GU Regional Health Partnership announces new center in Spokane
McKinstry to design and construct $60 million ‘leap forward’ for medical education, health sciences research and innovation.
Tag(s): Regional Health Partnership • UW Medicine
Breakthrough Foundation honors UW researcher studying ‘exotic’ states of matter
Lukasz Fidkowski, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Washington, is one of the winners of a 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation. The prize to early-career scientists, announced Sept. 5, recognizes Fidkowski and his three co-recipients “for incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.”
Tag(s): awards • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Physics • Lukasz Fidkowski
Lightning ‘superbolts’ form over oceans from November to February
A study of superbolts, which release a thousand times more electrical energy in the low-frequency range than regular lightning bolts, finds they occur at very different times and places than regular lightning. Superbolts tend to strike over particular parts of the oceans, while regular lightning strikes over land.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • lightning • Michael McCarthy • Robert Holzworth • weatherSeptember 5, 2019
Study shows exposure to multiple languages may make it easier to learn one
A new study from the University of Washington finds that, based on brain activity, people who live in communities where multiple languages are spoken can identify words in yet another language better than those who live in a monolingual environment.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Psychology • I-LABS • Kinsey Bice
University of Washington Magazine takes the UW’s anchor publication to a broader audience
One of the Pacific Northwest’s largest-circulation magazines is changing its name and look.
University of Washington Magazine – the new quarterly publication from the University of Washington Alumni Association – is out for home delivery next week replacing what since 1989 has been known as Columns.
Tag(s): UW Alumni AssociationSeptember 4, 2019
New study tracks sulfur-based metabolism in the open ocean
UW oceanographers used lab experiments and seawater samples to learn how photosynthetic microbes and ocean bacteria use sulfur, a plentiful marine nutrient.
Tag(s): Anitra Ingalls • College of the Environment • Ginger Armbrust • marine microbiology • oceanography • School of OceanographySeptember 3, 2019
UW colleges, offices share three-year NSF grant to make ‘internet of things’ more secure
Several UW schools and offices will team up to research how organizational practices can affect the interagency collaboration needed to keep the “internet of things” — and institutional systems — safe and secure.
Tag(s): Carrie Dossick • Center for Education and Research in Construction • Chuck Benson • College of Arts & Sciences • College of Built Environments • Department of Construction Management • Jackson School of International Studies • Jessica Beyer • Laura Osburn • UW FacilitiesAugust 29, 2019
Crowdsourced archaeology shows how humans have influenced Earth for thousands of years
A new map synthesized from more than 250 archaeologists worldwide, including from the University of Washington, argues that the human imprint on our planet’s soil goes back much earlier than the nuclear age.
Tag(s): Ben Marwick • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of AnthropologyAugust 27, 2019
Pregnant women of color experience disempowerment by health care providers
A new study finds that women of color perceive their interactions with doctors, nurses and midwives as being misleading, with information being “packaged” in such a way as to disempower them by limiting maternity health care choices for themselves and their children.
Tag(s): Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon • Molly Altman • School of Nursing« Previous Page Next Page »
