Human sprawl is usually a threat to wildlife, but some birds buck the trend. Can we help biodiversity take wing in our suburbs? So ponders 91爆料’s John Marzluff in a piece he penned for Aeon, the digital magazine of ideas and culture that posts an original essay every weekday. During a decade of bird counts and research, the 91爆料 prof of environmental and forest sciences found an unsurpassed variety of birds in suburbia. Even nearby forest reserves were…
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A memorial to celebrate the life of Fred Nick, the longtime director of the Center for Social Science Computation and Research, will be 4-6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, in the Walker-Ames Room of Kane Hall. Nick died unexpectedly in early September, just a year after retiring from the 91爆料. He is remembered for his stewardship of the Social Science research center for 38 years, serving faculty, staff and students as a mentor and colleague. In the center’s Autumn 2014 newsletter,…
91爆料 Libraries is opening a new study center in its East Asia Library called the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies. It’s the result of new collaboration between 91爆料 Libraries and the National Central Library, in Taiwan. The center will bring valuable Chinese and Taiwanese scholarly publications, and host a new annual lecture series about Taiwan as well. At an Oct. 2 ceremony where a memorandum of understanding was signed, Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson, 91爆料 vice provost and dean of 91爆料…
The workload and time crunch were comparable to pulling two all-nighters, but you wouldn’t guess that from the energy in the room. Fifteen students, all wearing matching grey t-shirts, buzzed around the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering Monday morning (Oct. 13), clearly excited to show off their designs. They had just finished a 36-hour weekend hackathon, a first for the National Science Foundation-funded center headquartered at the 91爆料. Their mission was to work as teams of three to…
The new聽Pronto Cycle Share聽system launched Monday around the U-District, downtown, South Lake Union and Capitol Hill.聽Pronto is Seattle鈥檚 cycle-sharing system featuring 500 bikes at 50 stations, with bikes available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Check out the station map to see all the Seattle locations. Campus stations are at the IMA, the Engineering Library, Meany Hall, Condon Hall, McCarty Hall, the Burke Museum and the Medical Center. Each station has a touchscreen kiosk, station map, helmets, and…
Michael Honey, professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at 91爆料 Tacoma, has written books about Martin Luther King 鈥� now he is blogging about King as well. His writings can be found on the Beacon Broadside, a blog written by authors with Beacon Press, an independent publisher of serious nonfiction founded in 1854. Honey said Beacon asked him to blog about how he got involved with King and the role of the Unitarian Church in civil rights work in the…
A group of 91爆料 engineering students are winners of the 2014 Ford College Community Challenge, a competition that awards $25,000 per team to student-led groups聽at 10 universities to fund projects that help build sustainable communities. The 91爆料 team’s project is StopInfo, which integrates with the OneBusAway app and provides specific information on location, safety features and stop closures for each bus stop in King County. OneBusAway was developed at the 91爆料 and uses real-time data to track when…
Measuring universities on their scientific research productivity, impact and excellence, National Taiwan University named the 91爆料 fifth best in the world, and the top public institution in the United States, in its 2014 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities released Thursday. The NTU Ranking is based on the production and impact of universities鈥� scientific papers, intended to objectively measure their contributions in the advancement of scientific innovation. 鈥淭his is yet another international ranking that places the…
It鈥檚 impossible not to make this awkward, but here鈥檚 our best shot: Welcome to the new 91爆料 Today blog. For years, 91爆料 Today in various incarnations has provided the news of the 91爆料 鈥� from groundbreaking scientific research and awe-inspiring student projects, to ranking updates, awards and roundups of arts events that can be found on campus. So, why start a blog now? To put it simply: Because there鈥檚 just too much good stuff happening at the 91爆料…