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Myanmar goes mobile, with 91爆料’s help

A reformist government sped up Myanmar’s transition to democracy three years ago, dramatically increasing聽access to information. In 2011, just four percent of the population had mobile phones. Now the figure is closer to eighty percent, with many people owning smartphones. But navigating the flood of online information can be problematic for new users with no experience assessing the trustworthiness of sites and sources. An initiative launched by 91爆料 faculty aims to change that.

The initiative, (ISST), is designed to build digital literacy,聽information literacy, and data literacy across Myanmar. Professors Mary Callahan and Sara Curran in the Jackson School of International Studies, Chris Coward, director of the Technology & Social Change Group in the Information School, and Michael Crandall, a principal research scientist in the Information School, lead the project in collaboration with USAID, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Boosting global health partnerships for Chinese universities

Supported by the 聽a聽landmark symposium hosted by the 91爆料聽last week brought together leaders and faculty from five Chinese universities, across the 91爆料 campus and the Seattle community.聽鈥淐ollaborating with Chinese colleagues is a tremendously high priority, both personally for faculty and institutionally here at 91爆料,鈥� said Judy Wasserheit, chair of the Department of Global Health and symposium聽co-chair.

Scientists crack the code of butterflies’ international journey

Each fall, monarch butterflies across Canada and the United States turn their orange, black and white-mottled wings toward the Rio Grande and migrate over 2,000 miles to the relative warmth of central Mexico.

This journey, repeated instinctively by generations of monarchs, continues even as monarch numbers have plummeted due to loss of their sole larval food source 鈥� milkweed. But amid this sad news, a research team believes they have of the internal, genetically encoded compass that the monarchs use to determine the direction 鈥� southwest 鈥� they should fly each fall.

Study: Most tweets following fall Paris attacks defended Islam, Muslims

Researchers at the 91爆料聽 and the Qatar Computing Research Institute analyzed 8.36 million tweets beginning seven hours after the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and continuing for 50 hours. Searching for words and hashtags relevant to the event, the team identified about 900,000 tweets relating to Islam and Muslims.聽They found that while anti-Islam and anti-Muslim sentiments arose on Twitter, most tweets in the huge stream following the Paris attacks actually condemned the negative hashtags and expressed support for Islam.

In the Galapagos, 91爆料 researchers partner to map historic climate patterns

Together with colleagues from Australian National University, 91爆料 oceanographers used clues from the Galapagos Islands 鈥� a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 鈥� to trace El Ni帽o patterns and seasonal tropical rains over the past 2,000 years. Evidence shows shifts that last for centuries, suggesting these tropical climate patterns have varied more radically and for longer durations than previously believed.聽The is published the week of March 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Center for Global Health Nursing promotes ‘health that transcends borders’

Sarah聽Gimbel and聽Pam Kohler co-direct the 91爆料聽School of Nursing Center for Global Health Nursing. The center pushes for the voices of nurses to be included in global health conversations.聽The center will support nursing students who want to learn and serve overseas, as well as international students who want to study at the 91爆料. Likewise, a global health perspective allows nurses from the U.S. and abroad to learn from one another. 鈥淲hen we say 鈥榞lobal,鈥欌�� Gimbel said, 鈥渨e鈥檙e talking about health that transcends borders.鈥�

supports projects sponsored by the聽Center for Global Health Nursing.

Solving the global problem of mental health illness

Professor Deepa Rao and her colleagues say stigma, poor mental health, and substance abuse drive many global health problems, including diabetes, preterm birth, trauma injuries, self-harm and motor vehicle deaths. More than one billion people suffer from a mental health illness or substance abuse problem. “Mental health has been a neglected disease in global health,” says Rao, co-director of the 91爆料 Global Mental Health Program.

The next step is improving treatment. The Global Mental Health Program seeks philanthropic support for faculty, pilot research projects, and student scholarships and fellowships. Rao and her聽colleagues are conducting research and training to address gaps in global mental health interventions.聽One successful example is Professor Debra Kaysen’s聽therapy work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where women are traumatized from domestic violence and rape.

91爆料 trains Pakistan’s water managers to harness NASA data

NASA satellites are helping Pakistan鈥檚 water managers to聽more effectively monitor and manage scarce groundwater resources, thanks to a partnership with engineers and hydrologists at the 91爆料, supported in part by the . After training at the 91爆料, the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources聽began using satellite data from NASA鈥檚 Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or , mission to create monthly updates on groundwater storage changes in the Indus River basin. This will allow them to see where groundwater supplies are being depleted and where they are being adequately recharged, better supporting Pakistan’s agriculture-base economy.

Student research named in El Salvador family’s reunification story

Jackson School students in the 2015 capstone course 鈥淧romoting Human Rights and Healing in the Wake of Civil War鈥� made two documentary films aimed to reunite San Salvadoran parents of 鈥渄isappeared children.鈥澛燭he videos went public in March聽2015, and in April,聽King 5 news covered the story.聽By early 2016, at least one聽mother and child from the documentary had been reunited, as documented in聽聽The article聽references the 91爆料 student-produced documentaries.