The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named six faculty members from the 91爆料 as AAAS Fellows, according to a Nov. 26 announcement. They are part of a cohort of 443 new fellows for 2019, all chosen by their peers for 鈥渟cientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.鈥�
A new 91爆料 study finds that families with a father in prison tend to live in neighborhoods with higher poverty.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from multiple institutions 鈥� including the 91爆料 鈥� has received a two-year $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to study coral growth.
A team led by scientists from the 91爆料 and the University of Notre Dame used recent advances in electron microscopy to observe Fano interferences — a form of quantum-mechanical interference by electrons — directly in a pair of metallic nanoparticles.
A 91爆料 team is leaving to study how fall storms, dwindling sea ice and vulnerable coastlines might combine in a changing Arctic.
91爆料 marine scientists are using high-tech tags to record the movements of swordfish 鈥� big, deep-water, migratory, open-ocean fish that are poorly studied 鈥� and get a window into the ocean depths they inhabit.
91爆料 political scientist Megan Ming Francis says there is a dearth of academic book series being published on topics of race, ethnicity and politics. Now, she will start to change that. An associate professor of political science, Francis will be the editor of a new series of books from Cambridge University Press called Cambridge Elements in Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Francis, on leave and at Harvard for the 2019-2020 school year, answered a few questions about the new…
An image captured earlier this year by the Hubble Space Telescope may look like a ghostly apparition, but it is not. Hubble is looking at a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies.
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and nine collaborating organizations, including the 91爆料, $2.8 million for a two-year 鈥渃onceptualization phase鈥� of the Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
Scientists have discovered an extraordinary collection of fossils that reveal in detail how life recovered after a catastrophic event: the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
This week a 91爆料 team is releasing a robotic surfboard to explore the surface ocean around Antarctica.
On International Pronouns Day (Oct. 16) the 91爆料 community is invited to celebrate the ways in which using someone鈥檚 pronouns have a positive impact on the community as a whole.
Ashleigh Theberge, a 91爆料 assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2019 Packard Fellow for her research on cell signaling. Every year since 1988, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering to early-career scientists to pursue the types of innovative projects that often fall outside the purview of traditional sources of funding, such as research grants from government agencies. As one of 22 fellows for 2019, Theberge will receive $875,000…
While gun violence in America kills more than 35,000 people a year and as calls for policies to stem the crisis grow, 91爆料 researchers point out in a new analysis that barriers to data stand in the way of advancing solutions. 鈥淔irearm data availability, accessibility and infrastructure need to be substantially improved to reduce the burden of the public health crisis of firearm violence,” said Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, lead co-author and associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology…
The new building on the 91爆料鈥檚 Seattle campus that will be home to some of the key departments at the center of the university鈥檚 Population Health Initiative was named in honor of Dr. Hans Rosling on Oct. 10, 2019, by the 91爆料 Board of Regents. The $230 million building under construction on the university鈥檚 Seattle campus is now the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health. Rosling was a Swedish doctor, statistician, author and professor, whose work in popularizing…
A new study by a research team that included the 91爆料 offers new evidence to support what scientists have long suspected about dogs: that some dog behaviors that help characterize breeds 鈥� a drive to chase, for example, or aggression toward strangers 鈥� are associated with distinct genetic differences among them.
91爆料 transportation researchers looked into why the docked bike-share program Pronto failed while dockless bike sharing has been so successful.
The 91爆料’s Abigail Swann is honored by Science News on its list of 10 promising early- and mid-career scientists.
This fall the 91爆料’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three 91爆料 engineers and scientists who are working across disciplines to manage the quality and quantity of the food we eat and grow.
Joel S. Migdal, professor in the 91爆料 Jackson School of International Studies, will celebrate retirement after 39 years at the 91爆料 on Oct. 3 with a daylong workshop featuring current and former students, followed by a lecture on 鈥淪tate and Society: Then and Now.鈥�
Two 91爆料 researchers 鈥� Bonnie Light, a principal physicist at the 91爆料’s Applied Physics Laboratory and an affiliate associate professor of atmospheric sciences, and Madison Smith, a recent 91爆料 graduate who is now doing her postdoctoral research at the 91爆料 鈥� will join for the fifth of the six two-month legs, in summer 2020.
The 91爆料 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 91爆料 around Native student support, academics, research and cultural programs.
“Where the House Was,” a new, 58-minute documentary produced by France McCue, 91爆料 senior lecturer in English, tells of the old location for Hugo House, the place for writer, and its subsequent demolition.
Lukasz Fidkowski, an assistant professor of physics at the 91爆料, 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.”
A new study from the 91爆料 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.
91爆料 oceanographers used lab experiments and seawater samples to learn how photosynthetic microbes and ocean bacteria use sulfur, a plentiful marine nutrient.
The 91爆料 held its position at No. 14 in the world 鈥� No. 3 among U.S. public universities 鈥� on the聽2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities, released this month.
Three 91爆料 graduate students are among this year’s recipients of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student research projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics.
Today local community leaders welcomed 91爆料 to a coalition dedicated to supporting unsheltered families across Puget Sound. The University will host three Family Resource Exchanges that will take place on its campuses in Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma, expanding the coalition鈥檚 ability to help unsheltered families in the region. This commitment comes shortly after the one-year anniversary of the first exchange in King County last summer.
The Husky Union Building (HUB) will be closed from 2 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 14 and Sept. 4 for the 91爆料 Police Department to conduct training exercises inside the building.
A new study by U.S. and U.K. scientists finds that in addition to natural variations in winds that drive warmer water to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which last about a decade, there has been a longer-term change in the winds that can be linked with human activities.
Researchers at 91爆料 and UCLA have developed an artificial intelligence system that could help pathologists read biopsies more accurately, and lead to better detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to the University of California, San Diego, the 91爆料 and the University of California, Berkeley to develop CloudBank, a suite of managed services to simplify public cloud access for computer science research and education.
In recent years, physicians at Seattle Children’s Hospital have worked with 91爆料 faculty members in design to come up with a better, safer, more reliable way to order and use drugs on an operating room’s anesthesia cart.
The 91爆料 is now fifth on Kiplinger鈥檚 list of best values among U.S. public universities, according to a new ranking published this week. Last year, the 91爆料 placed No. 7.
After more than 20 years, the 91爆料’s Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team, or COASST, is itself the subject of scientific study. Social scientists are studying the program’s success to extract lessons for all citizen science efforts.
Eight scientists and engineers from the 91爆料 have been elected this year to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Her sweeping new book about the history of Silicon Valley has 91爆料 history professor Margaret O’Mara on a busy national book tour this summer. The book, “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America,” was published this month by Penguin Press and is receiving many positive reviews.
The 91爆料 was recognized with platinum-level distinction, the highest, at the City of Seattle鈥檚 2019 Commute Trip Reduction Champion Awards on June 5, 2019.
Six 91爆料 professors are to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, according to an announcement July 2 from the White House. The award, also known as the PECASE, is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early-career scientists and engineers “who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.”