A new study of fishing practices found that the “risky” behavior that makes fishing one of the most dangerous lines of work dropped sharply following the adoption of catch shares management in the West Coast fixed gear sablefish fishery.
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If you are a 91爆料 supervisor, you have probably participated in the Strategic Leadership Program 鈥� a customized training program enhancing communication and managerial skill. Developed and taught by 91爆料 Professional & Organizational Development, the program has graduated over 4000 supervisors since it launched almost 16 years ago. On Feb. 4, the Strategic Leadership Program received the top leadership excellence award for Best Corporate University at the national LEAD2016 conference sponsored by HR.com and held at…
The 91爆料 campus already is home to a lot of great public art. Now there are two additions to the campus collection 鈥� one at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library and the other at w菨色菨b蕯altx史 – Intellectual House.
Tom Anderson, a 91爆料 professor of computer science and engineering and alumnus, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Also elected are 91爆料 civil engineering alumnus Jon Magnusson and computer science alumnus Albert Greenberg.
We know the Earth is habitable because 鈥� well, here we are. But would it look like a good candidate for life from hundreds of light-years away?
91爆料 seismologist John Vidale will participate in a White House summit focusing on national earthquake preparedness.
The acclaimed 2012 book 鈥淭he New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness鈥� is the foundation for a daylong 鈥渢each-in鈥� at the 91爆料 Feb. 9. The event is titled 鈥淧erpetual Displacement and Bondage: Understanding Historical and Contemporary Intersections of Mass Incarceration, Racism, and Health.鈥� It鈥檚 free and open to the public, and will include four sessions on various aspects of mass incarceration featuring 91爆料 faculty members and community speakers. Alison Holcomb, director of the American Civil…
The 91爆料 has signed on to a new report and initiative encouraging changes to the college admissions process to promote greater ethical and intellectual engagement on the part of prospective students.
Two 91爆料 teams claimed top prizes in a national competition to design a game about climate adaptation.
First-time visitors and regulars to Washington Park Arboretum can now learn the names and origins of plants as well as save favorites while strolling through the grounds.
Helen Garrett has been selected as the 91爆料鈥檚 new university registrar and chief officer for enrollment information services. 鈥淗elen emerged as the top candidate from a very deep pool of applicants. Her substantial experience in enrollment management combined with her wealth of knowledge regarding data and student information services were exactly what the registrar search committee was looking for,鈥� said Philip Reid, chair of the registrar search committee and professor of chemistry. “She has the right combination of…
In December, the 91爆料’s Department of Bioengineering began accepting applications for its newest graduate degree program, the Master of Applied Bioengineering. The one-year, full-time program begins in August, and will train students to apply engineering design and entrepreneurship skills to address unmet clinical needs and to transform biomedical research into technologies for improving health care. The degree will position graduates to respond to market-based demands of industry, medicine and translational research.
Kellye Y. Testy, dean of聽the 91爆料鈥檚 law school, will give her inaugural address as president of the Association of American Law Schools tomorrow night in Washington, D.C. Testy previously served on the association‘s executive committee and was voted in as its president in October 2014. She takes over from 2015 president Blake Morant, dean of The George Washington University Law School. “It is an incredible honor for me to be elected president of AALS, and I look forward…
Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas. Their conclusions, reported Jan. 8 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Kissimmee, Florida, clarify why quasar SDSS J1011+5442 changed so dramatically in the handful of years between observations.
Two 91爆料 faculty members joined Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Wednesday as he announced a new initiative to reduce gun-related deaths by strengthening background checks and implementing a statewide suicide prevention plan. Jennifer Stuber, an associate professor at the 91爆料 School of Social Work, and Monica Vavilala, director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, stood alongside Inslee as he made the announcement at a mental health center in Burien. “This is a public health response to a…
91爆料 scientists will give free talks on climate change for three consecutive Saturdays at Mt. Baker Ski Area.
DO-IT, a 91爆料 program, is looking for high school students with disabilities to apply to be program scholars. Applicants must be a current high school sophomore or junior in Washington, have an aptitude and interest in attending college, have any disability, and must be motivated to participate and interested in interacting with other students with a variety of disabilities. The application can be found online. Applicants who are selected as聽DO-IT scholars聽are loaned computers and adaptive technology needed to…
Today’s college graduates tend to be highly trained and employable but often lack a key skill needed for post-college life: how to identify and ask their own questions, according to a new study.
Eric Agol, a 91爆料 professor of astronomy, will receive the 2016 Lecar Prize from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The award, now in its third year, recognizes exceptional contributions to the study of exoplanets 鈥� those beyond our solar system 鈥� and theoretical astrophysics. It is named for Myron S. “Mike” Lecar, who was with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1965 to 2009, researching planet formation and the dynamics of gravity and our solar system. Lecar died in…
When campaigning for social change, disruptive protests may win a few battles but education is more likely to win the war, according to research by Abhinav Gupta, an assistant professor of strategic management at the 91爆料 Foster School of Business. Gupta and co-authors studied “Rein in Russell,” a 2009 campaign by United Students Against Sweatshops at Pennsylvania State University and other institutions designed to pressure the company Russell Athletic to change its anti-union business tactics and reopen a…
The 91爆料 College of Built Environments and School of Public Health have been selected as part of a national initiative seeking to translate research on how design impacts public health into architectural practice. The two 91爆料 schools have been selected to join the American Institute of Architects’ multi-school Design & Health Research Consortium. Over a three-year period, the institute and the Architects Foundation will provide support for the new members, promoting local and national partnerships and the sharing…
91爆料 President Ana Mari Cauce joined a small group of 91爆料 students Monday morning聽to聽get a crash course in coding聽as part of Code.org‘s Hour of Code event during Computer Science Education Week. Cauce worked with聽Sukhdeep Singh, a freshman at 91爆料聽who hopes to double major in business and computer science, in the Hour of Code聽Monday. See GeekWire’s coverage of Monday’s events at the 91爆料 and across Seattle. For more information about Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code,…
The 91爆料 Sephardic Studies Program will host its third annual International Ladino Day, celebrating Sephardic language and culture, in a free event at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, in Room 130 of Kane Hall. The event will be followed by a kosher reception. This year’s featured speakers are members of Los Ladineros, a long-running local Ladino conversation group, and scholars Julia Phillips Cohen of Vanderbilt University and Sarah Abrevaya Stein of the University of California, Los Angeles, who…
Each year, hundreds of volunteers spread across Washington’s forests and grasslands to look for the state’s rarest, most sensitive plant species. Many of these endangered populations live in remote valleys or along unseen slopes and haven’t been seen in a decade or more. That’s where the 91爆料’s Rare Plant Care and Conservation program comes in. Its team of more than 200 volunteers fans out each summer to gather intel, one plant population at a time, on some 4,000…
The New York Times has named a recent book by two faculty members in the 91爆料’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies to its list of 100 Most Notable Books of 2015. “The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Built the Modern World,” by Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot was published in May by Princeton University Press. “Our approach is simple and direct,” Montgomery said in an interview with 91爆料 Today about the book….
President Obama has been leading the charge for criminal justice reform in recent months, calling for sweeping changes to reduce mass incarceration and commuting sentences for non-violent offenders. This week, the White House and Department of Justice are bringing together researchers, legal system practitioners and advocacy organizations at events focused on criminal justice system reform 鈥� and two 91爆料 sociologists are among the participants. Alexes Harris and Hedwig (Hedy) Lee, 91爆料 associate professors of sociology, will be at…
Women routinely outperform men in university classrooms across the United States and are invited more often than men to join student honors societies 鈥� yet women continue to be paid far less than similarly qualified male colleagues. Adding to that inequity, women also fare poorly when suing to recover damages for workplace sex and gender discrimination in the courts, with only 6 percent of such cases going to trial and then only one-third of even those cases being successful. These…
Interested in the Syrian refugee crisis? A public discussion at the 91爆料 Tuesday, Nov. 24 aims to provide information about how local residents and communities can help advocate for Syrian refugees. Sponsored by 91爆料 Law鈥檚 Immigrant Families Advocacy Project, the 鈥淪ocial Justice Tuesday鈥� event will be held from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Room 127 in William H. Gates Hall, with a reception and snacks afterward in Room 115. Speakers are: Rahaf Baker, who migrated from Syria to…
Neutrinos may be small, but when it comes to prizes, they pack quite a punch. In October, it was announced that two scientists who headed international projects to study these miniscule, seemingly ephemeral subatomic particles will share the Nobel Prize in Physics. On Nov. 8, these same scientists joined five of their colleagues from other neutrino projects to accept the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Physics. The $3 million prize will be shared among the over 1,300 scientists, including University of…
Ocean acidification is top of mind for many Pacific Northwest scientists, shellfish farmers and even seafood chefs, but a new initiative seeks to know how an unsuspecting audience 鈥� kids and teenagers in the Northwest’s urban and rural areas 鈥� is impacted by this issue. EarthEcho International, Philippe Cousteau, Jr.’s environmental education and youth leadership nonprofit, has launched an expedition 鈥� called “Acid Apocalypse” 鈥� around Washington state to explore the growing threat of ocean acidification and meet with students…
Ieesha, the young African-American woman at the center of Charles Johnson’s short story “The Weave,” takes an unusual action in response to her abrupt, sneeze-caused dismissal from Sassy Hair Salon and Beauty Supplies in Seattle’s Central District 鈥� where hair is straightened as well as styled and cut. “The Weave” has been selected for the prestigious 2016 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology, the 40th installment in that series. Johnson is a 91爆料 professor of English,…
War photography in The New York Times entranced David Shields for years as a daily reader, but that attraction in time evolved into “a mixture of rapture, bafflement and repulsion,” he writes in the introduction to his latest book, “War is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict.” “Over time,” Shields wrote, “I realized that these photos glorified war through an unrelenting parade of beautiful images whose function is to sanctify the accompanying descriptions…
91爆料 psychology professor Anthony Greenwald is one of two researchers chosen to receive the most prestigious award of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji, a social psychologist at Harvard University, recently were聽named joint recipients of the 2016 Kurt Lewin Award for distinguished research on social issues. The pair is best known for their work on implicit social cognition, the unconscious attitudes and beliefs that humans bring to their social interactions. They…
Two 91爆料 faculty members have been awarded a grant from The Swartz Foundation to support research in theoretical neuroscience. The award establishes the 91爆料 as the latest of the Swartz Foundation-supported centers for innovation in this growing field, which spans mathematics, statistics, physics and biology. “This award is a recognition of what is happening here at the 91爆料 in theoretical neuroscience research,” said Adrienne Fairhall, a 91爆料 associate professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. “It is…
91爆料 social work professor Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen is among 50 people nationwide named on the first Next Avenue Influencers in Aging list. Compiled by Next Avenue, a public media website aimed at older Americans, the list recognizes people 鈥渨ho are changing how we age and think about aging in America.鈥� Fredriksen-Goldsen, director of the 91爆料-based Healthy Generations Hartford Center of Excellence, is 鈥渟hedding new light on the needs of LGBT elders,鈥� Next Avenue noted in a release. Fredriksen-Goldsen鈥檚 research…
Scott L. Montgomery, a lecturer in the Jackson School of International Studies, uses a range of case studies and the notion of “scientific culture” to trace the evolution of technical thought through eight major civilizations from ancient Egypt to Medieval and Renaissance Europe in his latest book, “A History of Science in World Cultures.” “A number of themes emerge,” said Montgomery. “The mobility of knowledge, the role of libraries, translation as a historical force, science and religion, science and art,…
Sound Transit will host a series of emergency drills with Seattle first responders Monday through聽Thursday at the new 91爆料 and Capitol Hill light rail stations. These drills are part of the commissioning process for the new University Link light rail line from downtown Seattle to 91爆料 that opens early next year. The drills offer local fire, police and aid crews a chance to familiarize themselves with the stations and emergency protocols. While the drills will take place entirely…
We have personal trainers and tailored suits. Why don’t we have personalized medicine? That question 鈥� and the prospects for stem-cell-based treatments that reverse disease and repair damage rather than simply addressing symptoms 鈥� will be the focus of the 91爆料’s Department of Bioengineering’s 2015 Allan S. Hoffman Lecture on Nov. 5. Molly S. Shoichet, a University of Toronto chemical engineering and applied chemistry university professor who specializes in tissue engineering at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical…
In science, decades can pass between a proposed theory and its real-world application. That is precisely what 91爆料 mathematics professor Gunther Uhlmann was expecting when he and three colleagues proposed a means to develop an electromagnetic wormhole in a 2007 paper in Physical Review Letters. Their theoretical wormhole 鈥� an invisible tube for electromagnetic fields 鈥� would cloak an electromagnetic field while it passed through the tube, creating a “secret” connection between the entry and exit point. Uhlmann…
Even before she became the 91爆料鈥檚 33rd president earlier this month, Ana Mari Cauce was a leader who broke down barriers and inspired students and other community members. That鈥檚 why Cauce was selected to receive the Greater Seattle Business Association鈥檚 2015 Special Recognition: Voice for Social Justice Award, said Louise Chernin, the association鈥檚 president and CEO. 鈥淏eing the first Latina woman and the first lesbian woman in her position 鈥� we know those journeys aren鈥檛 easy,鈥� Chernin said….