UW in the media
Recent mentions of the University of Washington in the news
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| Photo | Name | Title | Email / Phone | Expertise |
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| Scott Allard | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Poverty and inequality, safety net policy and urban policy |
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| Ernesto Alvarado | Research associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Forest fire ecology, fire management, prescribed fire, smoke emissions, climate change, tropical forestry, landscape, international forestry, modeling |
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| Cecilia Aragon | Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering | Human-centered data science; data visualization; visual analytics; human-computer interaction; data-intensive discovery; human-centered natural language processing. |
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| Joel Baker | Science director, Center for Urban Waters | Transport of organic contaminants in the environment, oil spills and water contamination, particularly in urban environments. |
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| Rory Barnes | Research assistant professor, astronomy | Identifying habitable planets, formation and evolution of habitable planets |
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| Erica Mills Barnhart | Director, Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy | Communications, marketing, nonprofits, philanthropy |
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| George Bergantz | Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Numerical modeling, lab experiments and field studies. |
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| Carl Bergstrom | Professor, Department of Biology | Behavior, evolution and systematics, mathematical and computational biology |
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| Elin Björling | Senior research scientist and lecturer, Human Centered Design & Engineering | Technology design to improve mental health in teens |
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| Nick Bond | Research scientist, UW Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies / Washington state climatologist | Washington’s state climatologist, can comment on recent events, historic trends and the seasonal outlook |
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| Ann Bostrom | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Risk perception, risk communication, and decision making under uncertainty |
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| Sally Brown | Research associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Contaminated soils, risks, waste (compost municipal wastewater) soil amendments, carbon accounting |
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| Benjamin M. Brunjes | Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | American political institutions and processes; Public administration – bureaucracy, management, organization theory, ethics; and Public finance and procurement – budgeting, tax policy, government contracting |
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| Karin Bumbaco | UW research scientist, Washington's assistant state climatologist | Questions or data inquiries on Washington weather trends in the context of historical data. Publishes the monthly newsletter on statewide trends and forecasts. |
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| Steve Calandrillo | Professor, law | Controversial law and public policy topics including contracts, daylight saving time, drone technology/regulation, organ donation, minimum wage legislation, instant replay, and baseball’s designated hitter rule |
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| Ryan Calo | Associate professor, law | law, technology, robotics, artificial intelligence, misinformation |
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| Shuyi Chen | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Tropical meteorology, air-sea interactions, mesoscale dynamics, numerical modeling |
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| Eric Chudler | Research associate professor, Department of Bioengineering | Behavioral neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces |
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| Alison Cullen | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Risk analysis, environmental policy, wildfire risk and management |
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| Angel Fettig | Associate professor, education | Special education, early childhood special education, developmental disabilities |
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| Karen Fredriksen Goldsen | Professor, School of Social Work | Aging and well-being, health disparities among LGBT older adults |
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| Anne Goodchild | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Freight transportation, E-commerce and online shopping, Urban Freight Home delivery, UAV or drone delivery, Goods movement, Sustainable freight transportation, Transportation logistics |
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| Mary Kay Gugerty | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Nonprofit and philanthropic policy and management; evaluation and social impact measurement; advocacy, accountability and voluntary regulation programs among nonprofit and NGOs; and community-based organizations and rural development policy in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| Crystal C. Hall | Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Judgment and decision making, poverty and social welfare policy, and psychology and behavioral economics |
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| Brian Harvey | Assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Wildfires, climate, ecology, resource management, forest disturbances |
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| Heather Hill | Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Effects of poverty and low-wage work on families and children |
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| Ines Jurcevic | Assistant professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Intersection of social psychology and public policy; stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination and diversity |
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| Reşat Kasaba | Professor, Jackson School of International Studies | State-society relations in the Middle East from a historical perspective, Turkey |
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| Deborah Kelley | Professor, School of Oceanography | Underwater volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, cabled deep-sea observatories |
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| Sharon Kioko | Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Public finance (US states/local governments), tax policy, voter referendum and tax limitations, education finance (K-12), infrastructure finance/debt management |
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| Marieka Klawitter | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Family and employment policy, gender, policy analysis, sexual orientation policy and savings and asset-building for low-income families |
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| Patricia Kramer | Professor, anthropology | Biological anthropology, evolution, human paleontology, nonhuman primates |
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| Jane Lee | Assistant professor, social work | Role of migration shaping health and wellbeing of immigrant populations |
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| Taryn Lindhorst | Professor, School of Social Work | Poverty, safety net health care settings and health equity; oncology social work; end-of-life, palliative are and grief issues |
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| Jana Mohr Lone | Director, UW Center for Philosophy for Children / Affiliate Associate Professor | Philosophical abilities of children and youth |
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| Joe Lott | Associate professor, education | Equity studies, higher education, policy and educational reform |
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| Don MacKenzie | Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Electric vehicles, shared use transportation services, energy use in transportation sector |
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| Julian Marshall | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Models and measurements of people's exposure to air pollution, investigating ways to reduce exposures, environmental justice and disparities in exposure, exposures in the United States and in low-income countries |
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| Karin Martin | Assistant professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Crime and punishment policy, criminal justice debt, courts and sentencing, criminal justice reform |
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| Scott Montgomery | Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies | Arctic and oil, oil and gas (reserves, technology, prices, politics), fracking, nuclear power, worked 25 years in the energy industry |
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| Steve Muench | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Infrastructure construction (bridges, roads, dams, etc.), Transportation infrastructure sustainability, Sustainability rating systems, Roads and pavements |
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| Devin Naar | Professor, international studies | Modern Jewish history, Jewish culture from antiquity until today, Sephardic history and culture, the history and memory of the Holocaust |
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| Jan Newton | Oceanographer, UW Applied Physics Laboratory | Ocean observing, ocean acidification and phytoplankton in Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest waters |
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| Jeffrey Ochsner | Professor, architecture | Architectural design, urban design, historic preservation, and architectural history |
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| Stephen Page | Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Public leadership, organizational culture, inter-organizational collaboration, transportation policy and projects |
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| Saadia Pekkanen | Professor, international studies | Outer space security, foreign policy, international relations, national security |
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| Franziska Roesner | Associate professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering | Computer security and privacy |
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| Ilene Schwartz | Professor, education | Early childhood special education, applied behavior analysis and interventions for autism |
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| Jeff Shulman | Professor, Foster School of Business | Marketing, pricing strategies, Seattle growth, gig economy |
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| Amy Snover | Director, Climate Impacts Group | Climate change effects in the Pacific Northwest. Co-authored numerous regional reports on effects of climate change. Works with regional communities, governments and businesses on preparing for and adapting to climate change. |
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| Hugh Spitzer | Professor, School of Law | Constitutional law, legal ethics and professional responsibility, legal philosophy and theory, legislative process, local government and municipal law |
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| Bill Steele | Director of outreach and information services, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network | Regional earthquake, volcano and tsunami hazards, risk communication, tours of the UW seismology lab, ShakeAlert earthquake early warning |
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| Harold Tobin | Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Subduction zones, Cascadia Subduction Zone, earthquakes, “ShakeAlert” earthquake early warning system |
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| Kathy Troost | Associate teaching professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Landslides, Seattle geology, Puget Lowland geology, geologic hazard mapping |
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| Denise Walker | Research associate professor, School of Social Work | Development, testing and implementation of interventions that bring about positive changes in patterns of behavior; treatment of marijuana disorders in both adolescents and adults |
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| Kathryn Watts | Professor, law | Administrative law, constitutional law, presidential powers, U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Jevin West | Associate professor, Information School | Misinformation, evolution of science, the models and science used to predict the spread of COVID-19 |
