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Recent mentions of the University of Washington in the news

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• Sanford and Joan Weill give $106 million to neuroscience research at 3 universities | The Chronicle of Philanthropy24 hours ago
  Sanford and Joan Weill announced Tuesday they are providing $106 million to bring together neuroscientists and researchers working in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry and mathematics to speed up creation of new treatments for diseases and disorders that affect the brain and nervous system. The UW is one of three universities part of the Weill Neurohub.
• Planning ahead can help curb student debt | KIRO 71 day ago
  Student debt has reached $1.6 trillion nationwide. Several UW students are interviewed.
• To stop diseases like West Nile, WSU scientists are feeding blood to mosquitoes | Crosscut1 day ago
  Mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and West Nile lack vaccines. But Washington scientists think insulin could weaken these diseases in mosquitoes before they reach people. Jennifer Hyde, an assistant professor of microbiology at the UW, is quoted.
• Novant Health and KenSci partner on AI platform to streamline patient experience | Triad Business Journal1 day ago
  Novant Health is partnering with Seattle-based artificial intelligence firm KenSci Inc., a UW Tacoma startup, to improve patient experience through the implementation of predictive systems.
• 'Smoke in the street.' Unions grapple with the complicated legacy of the WTO protests | KUOW1 day ago
  Twenty years ago, demonstrators converged on downtown Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization. It was supposed to be non-violent. But in a single day, the city was thrown into chaos. Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and governance at the UW, is quoted.
• Top 10 emerging technologies of 2019 | Scientific American1 day ago
  Scientific American details 10 world-changing technologies that are "poised to rattle the status quo." A UW research project studying data storage in DNA is referenced.
• Why this winter's forecast in the Pacific Northwest is more uncertain than usual | KING 51 day ago
  You may recall the “Blob” of unusually warm water off the Pacific coast of North America in 2013-2016. Well, it's back again and has been described by UW associate professor Nick Bond as the “Daughter of Blob.”
• Scientists have carried out the biggest ever study on transgender children — here's what they found | Newsweek1 day ago
  Trans children who live as the gender they identify with act and develop similarly to their cisgender counterparts, according to a new study. Selin Gülgöz, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at the UW, is quoted.
• Washington state minimum wage to increase to $13.50 in January | Columbia Basin Herald1 day ago
  The minimum wage in Washington state will increase from $12.00 to $13.50 per hour in January as part of a voter-approved initiative. The UW minimum wage study is referenced.
• Opinion: The cowardice behind Trump’s vaping-ban retreat | The New York Times1 day ago
  "Vaping devices have been on the market since the late 2000s, and yet the Food and Drug Administration has not examined a large majority of these products for their health or safety impact on humans. This is a failure of leadership on both sides of the political aisle," writes Dr. Vin Gupta, assistant professor of health metrics sciences at the UW.
• Editorial: End the ICE secrecy in Longview | The Seattle Times1 day ago
  "Although Cowlitz County owns the Juvenile Detention Center in Longview, a longstanding contract with ICE allows the federal agency to detain minors there by its own rules while they await deportation proceedings," writes The Seattle Times Editorial Board. Angelina Godoy, director of the UW Center for Human Rights, is quoted.
• Scientists rule out a form of ultra-light dark matter | Forbes1 day ago
  For decades, the betting scientist would have wagered that dark matter was made up of what are called WIMPs, but experiments designed to see these particles came up empty. An experiment called ADMX, hosted by the University of Washington, is using very powerful magnets to search for a candidate dark matter particle called an axion. 
• July’s Monroe earthquake is informing plans for future danger | The Everett Herald1 day ago
  The magnitude 4.6 Monroe earthquake felt by thousands of Puget Sound-area residents in July is helping scientists assess how future quakes will impact the region. Alex Hutko, a research seismologist at the UW-based Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, is quoted.
• Trans children have 'strong sense of identity' from early age, study finds | Reuters1 day ago
  Transgender children are no more or less likely than other children to conform to gender stereotypes in how they dress and play, suggesting they have a strong sense of identity from an early age, according to a study published on Monday. Kristina Olson, associate professor of psychology at the UW, is quoted.
• Ghana: Student donates solar panels to Kpantarigu basic schools in Bawku West | AllAfrica1 day ago
  Francis Abugbilla, a doctoral student in international studies at the UW, has installed four solar panels at the Kpantarigu basic schools in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The facility is to provide electricity to aid the teaching and learning of the Information and Communication Technology at the schools in the community where Abugbilla hails from.
• Early Buddhist manuscripts | Humanities1 day ago
  “Extremely fragile, do not open unless necessary” read the note that came with a two-thousand-year-old scroll acquired by the Library of Congress in 2003. Early this year, curators announced that they had at long last been able to unroll and digitize the fragile document known at the library as the Gandharan Scroll. Richard Salomon, professor emeritus of Asian languages and literature at the UW, is quoted.
• The forecast for Bristol Bay reds is stronger than ever, but some worry about when the bubble bursts | Alaska Public Media1 day ago
  Almost 49 million sockeye are forecast to return to Bristol Bay this summer. If that forecast is correct, the run would be 6% larger than the average over the past decade. Daniel Schindler, professor of aquatic and fishery sciences and of biology at the UW, is quoted.
• Arctic in hot water: Sea ice minimal in Chukchi, Bering seas | The Associated Press1 day ago
  The U.S. research vessel Sikuliaq can break through ice as thick as 2.5 feet (0.76 meters). In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely won’t be tested. Jim Thomson, an oceanographer at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory, is quoted.
• The line between researcher and activist | The Chronicle of Higher Education2 days ago
  At a moment when thousands of undocumented immigrants are kept in detention centers where conditions are described as nightmarish and children are separated from their families, the role of academics like Angelina Godoy, director of the UW Center for Human Rights, has been brought to the forefront.
• Tech moves: Ex-Microsoft legal head joins UW health initiative; Amazon mints another startup CFO | GeekWire2 days ago
  Microsoft’s longtime head lawyer Bill Neukom will chair the advisory board for the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative.

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