Recent honors to 91爆料 faculty and staff have come from Architect magazine, the Center for Research Libraries, member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the American Society of Human Genetics.
Rick Mohler receives Architect magazine 2020 R+D award for housing access prototype ‘ADUniverse’
, 91爆料 associate professor of architecture, has won a from Architect magazine for a project designed with Seattle city planner Nick Welch to give local homeowners the information they need to plan and build on their property.
The two led a team聽at the in creating a prototype app called聽, that uses neighborhood-level demographics and GIS data to help homeowners determine the physical and financial feasibility, on a parcel by parcel basis, of building a self-contained cottage or apartment.
Mohler and Welch’s project was one of seven honored in the magazine’s , chosen from 90 submissions that, the magazine said, “are scalable, thought-provoking, and promising in achieving a more equitable and healthy built environment.”
Mohler is also a licensed architect with Mohler + Ghillino Architects and serves on the . Welch is senior planner with the Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development.
“The short-term goal is simply increasing the number of available housing units, but the longer-term goal is increasing equity,” Mohler said.
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91爆料 Libraries 2017 video exhibit ‘The Age of the Kampuchea Picture’ wins Center for Research Libraries research award
A 91爆料 Libraries video installation based on the work of New York Times journalist Elizabeth Becker has won a 2020 in research from the , an international consortium of academic and independent research libraries.
“” was an interactive video installation created in 2017 by filmmaker 鈥� who has since earned a Master’s degree in Southeast Asia Studies from the Jackson School 鈥� in collaboration with the Southeast Asia Section of 91爆料 Libraries, and , 91爆料 assistant professor of anthropology. It was among events in conjunction with a visit to campus by and French Cambodian filmmaker .
The research award is for innovation in expanding research in the social sciences or humanities. The installation was based on notes, audio and photographs from Becker’s December 1978 visit to Democratic Kampuchea just before the Vietnamese overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. Becker started donating her materials to 91爆料 Special Collections in 2007.
“The installation speaks to the question of what is allowed to be seen, what is hidden, and how we might seek the truth in that absence of seeing,” wrote Judith Henchy, 91爆料 Southeast Asia Section librarian, on the Southeast Asia Center website. . .
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College of Environment’s Chelsea Wood named runner-up for 2020 APEC ASPIRE prize
, assistant professor in the 91爆料 College of the Environment’s School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, has been named one of two runners-up for the national prize.
APEC, or , is a 21-country forum for governments in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The annual APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education 鈥� called ASPIRE 鈥� is awarded by the state departments of APEC-member countries. It recognizes young scientists committed to excellence in scientific research, based on scholarly publication and cooperation with scientists from other member economies.
As one of two runners-up for the prize, Wood will receive $1,200 from scholarly publishing firms Wiley and Elsevier, co-sponsors of the prize, and will be invited to a roundtable with senior government officials and to give a virtual public lecture along with the ASPIRE winner and fellow runner-up, probably in August. The United States, an APEC member, selects one grand prize winner and two runners-up each year from across the sciences.
Wood’s research studies the ecology of parasites and pathogens in a changing world. Watch .
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91爆料 Medicine’s Dr. Gail Jarvik begins as president-elect of American Society of Human Genetics
91爆料 Medicine’s in January began a three-year term as of the . She was elected to the position in June of 2019.
Jarvik, the Arno G. Motulsky Endowed Chair in Medicine, is a professor of medicine and genome sciences and adjunct professor of epidemiology who is also affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
The American Society of Human Genetics, or ASHG, was founded in 1948; its nearly 8,000 members include researchers, academicians, clinicians, laboratory practice professionals, genetic counselors and nurses. Jarvik has served on several of its committees and was on its board of directors from 2015 to 2018.