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A 91±¬ÁÏ team created a mechanical eye under the ocean’s surface that could live near renewable-energy sites and use a series of sensors to watch nearby animals. On Dec. 13, the researchers put the newest version of the AMP into the waters of Seattle’s Portage Bay for two weeks of preliminary testing before a more thorough analysis is conducted in Sequim, Washington.

Kate Simonen, architect, engineer and 91±¬ÁÏ associate professor of architecture, discusses recent work by her and the Carbon Leadership Forum toward reducing embodied carbon in construction materials.

Here in what is called the Anthropocene era, humans and our urban environments appear to be driving accelerated evolutionary change in plants, animals, fungi, viruses and more — changes that could affect key ecosystem functions and thus human well-being. These interactions between evolution and ecology are called “eco-evolutionary feedback.” The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $500,000 grant to a multi-institution research network team headed by Marina Alberti, 91±¬ÁÏ professor of urban design and planning, to advance…

In a paper published Oct. 8 in the journal Nano Letters, a team from the 91±¬ÁÏ and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan announced that it has constructed functional metalenses that are one-tenth to one-half the thickness of the wavelengths of light that they focus. Their metalenses, which were constructed out of layered 2D materials, were as thin as 190 nanometers — less than 1/100,000ths of an inch thick.

When it comes to supporting and promoting the growth of minority businesses, the 91±¬ÁÏ has a long track record – 27 years to be exact. This milestone represents the 91±¬ÁÏ’s long-standing relationship with the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council (MSDC).

The 91±¬ÁÏ has distributed news to the campus community — in one form or another — since 1975. Such communication began as a way to streamline how faculty, staff and students received important administrative news and was initially published as a pamphlet of memos. In 1983, it evolved into University Week, a weekly printed newspaper with research news and feature stories. The newspaper became an online-only publication in 2008, and the first 91±¬ÁÏ Today email newsletter was sent…

The 91±¬ÁÏ will lead one of three teams that will partner with the Honda Research Institute to explore the mechanisms behind curiosity and seek advances in artificial cognition. The 91±¬ÁÏ-led team will receive $2.7 million over the next three years to generate a mathematical model of curiosity.

Jiun-Haw Chu, a 91±¬ÁÏ assistant professor of physics and faculty member at the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Clean Energy Institute, has been named a 2018 fellow by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for his research on quantum materials — substances that exhibit novel combinations of quantum-mechanical properties that could one day transform information technology.

The 91±¬ÁÏ’s Urban Freight Lab at the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center has been looking for solutions to Seattle’s traffic congestion: Parcel lockers that aren’t owned by a specific company could alleviate the strain. Now the researchers have identified five viable locker locations at three different Seattle Link light rail stations for a future pilot test.

Pablo García Borboroglu, president of the Global Penguin Society and a 91±¬ÁÏ affiliate associate professor of biology, has won the Whitley Gold Award and the National Geographic/Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation, as well as accolades from the Argentine National Congress, for his research and advocacy for penguin conservation.

A new book by 91±¬ÁÏ history professor George Behlmer seeks to improve understanding of the British colonial era by “reconsidering the conduct of islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them.”