September 7, 2021
The new Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub, led by Oregon State University and the 91爆料, will study coastal hazards and community resilience. The National Science Foundation awarded $18.9 million for the hub over five years.
September 2, 2021
91爆料 News asked Michael Motley, a 91爆料 associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, to explain how levees protect cities like New Orleans.聽
Two new rankings out this month place 91爆料 among the best schools in the nation and the world.
September 1, 2021
Mary Gresch has been named senior vice president for advancement at the 91爆料, 91爆料 President Ana Mari Cauce announced this week. Gresch鈥檚 appointment is effective Sept. 1.
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91爆料 community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through 91爆料 live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 91爆料-IT.聽 Works Cited: experiments in dismantling texts with Elaine Cameron-Weir and Amaranth Borsuk September 11, 1:00 – 3:00 PM聽| Henry…
August 25, 2021
A new analysis of 2.5-billion-year-old rocks from Australia finds that volcanic eruptions may have stimulated population surges of marine microorganisms, creating the first puffs of oxygen into the atmosphere. This would change existing stories of Earth鈥檚 early atmosphere, which assumed that most changes in the early atmosphere were controlled by geologic or chemical processes.
The 91爆料 and Carnegie Mellon University have announced an expansive, multi-year collaboration to create new software platforms to analyze large astronomical datasets generated by the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, which will be carried out by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile. The open-source platforms are part of the new LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing 鈥� known as LINCC 鈥� and will fundamentally change how scientists use modern computational methods to make sense of big data.
August 24, 2021
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91爆料 community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through 91爆料 live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 91爆料-IT.聽 Elaine Cameron-Weir: STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH Through September 12聽| Henry Art Gallery In her sculpture, Elaine Cameron-Weir (b. 1985,…
August 20, 2021
In a new series on increasingly common extreme heat waves and their impact on human health published Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet, a 91爆料 climate change and health expert joined more than a dozen international experts to warn that聽we better prepare. 鈥淭he preventable heat stress and deaths during this summer’s heat waves highlight the importance of developing a regional heat action plan. A heat wave early warning and response plan that includes all relevant services,…
August 19, 2021
A study led by Harvard and the 91爆料 surveyed children, teens and their families about the stresses of the pandemic, and ways to cope.
August 17, 2021
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91爆料 community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through 91爆料 live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 91爆料-IT.聽 A Gee’s Bend Quilt by Mary L. Bennett Through October聽3 | Henry Art Gallery This iteration of聽Viewpoints聽features聽鈥淗ousetop鈥濃�攏ine-block variation聽(1975) by…
August 16, 2021
It was wartime and food was scarce. Leaders of England鈥檚 effort to wage war and help the public survive during World War II needed to know: Were the rations in lifeboats adequate for survival at sea? And, among several experiments important for public as well as military heath, how much vitamin C did a person need to avoid the deadly disease scurvy? In one experiment at the Sorby Research Institute in Sheffield, called the 鈥渟hipwreck鈥� experiment, volunteers were fed only…
August 11, 2021
A study published Aug. 11 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by researchers at the 91爆料 and Stony Brook University reports on how bats and pepper plants in Central America have coevolved to help each other survive.
August 10, 2021
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91爆料 community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through 91爆料 live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 91爆料-IT.聽 Hostile Terrain 94 Through October聽| Henry Art Gallery Hostile Terrain 94聽(HT94)聽is a participatory art exhibition created by the聽Undocumented Migration…
August 6, 2021
With wildfire smoke forecast聽for next week in Seattle and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Oregon posting rules for keeping workers safe during increasingly smoky conditions and heat in that state, we caught up with a 91爆料 expert on worker safety for advice. Check out Professor Baker’s advice on worker safety in this video. Journalists can download the video here. Marissa Baker, an industrial hygiene program director and assistant professor in the 91爆料 Department of…
August 5, 2021
New research by scientists at the 91爆料 and Duke University is shedding light on how the nasal passage of dolphins and whales shifts during embryonic development from emerging at the tip of the snout to emerging at the top of the head as a blowhole. The findings, published July 19 in the Journal of Anatomy, are an integrative model for this developmental transition for cetaceans.
Firefighters have reported that Western wildfires are starting earlier in the morning and dying down later at night, hampering their ability to recover and regroup before the next day鈥檚 flareup. A study by 91爆料 and U.S. Forest Service scientists shows why: The drying power of nighttime air over much of the Western U.S. has increased dramatically in the past 40 years.
Astronomers have long suspected that superflares, extreme radiation bursts from stars, can cause lasting damage to the atmospheres 鈥� and thus habitability 鈥� of exoplanets. A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reports that they pose only a limited danger to planetary systems.
August 4, 2021
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91爆料 community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through 91爆料 live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 91爆料-IT.聽 Unpacking Form and Function: Ceramics August 12, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM聽|聽Online via Zoom Join Associate Curator of Collections…
Using data from two large, long-running study projects in the Puget Sound region 鈥� one that began in the late 1970s measuring air pollution and another on risk factors for dementia that began in 1994 鈥� 91爆料 researchers identified a link between air pollution and dementia. In the 91爆料-led study, a small increase in the levels of fine particle pollution (PM2.5 or particulate matter 2.5 micrometers or smaller) averaged over a decade at specific addresses in the Seattle…
August 3, 2021
Bruce Avolio, executive director of the 91爆料 Center for Leadership & Strategic Thinking and a professor of management in the 91爆料 Foster School of Business, talks about what we can learn about leadership, competition and collaboration 鈥� factors that are important in the workplace as well as the Olympics.
August 2, 2021
Seeing the urgent need for change, a team of scientists from leading research universities, conservation organizations and government laboratories across the West has produced a synthesis of the scientific literature that clearly lays out the established science and strength of evidence on climate change, wildfire and forest management for seasonally dry forests. The goal is to give land managers and others across the West access to a unified resource that summarizes the best-available science so they can make decisions about how to manage their landscapes.
A study published June 16 in Biotropica by a team of researchers at the 91爆料, the 91爆料 Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, WWF Hong Kong and the University of Colombo has provided an important road map to conserving rough-nosed horned lizards in Sri Lanka.
July 30, 2021
Washington residents continue to experience a dramatically higher level of food insecurity 鈥� from 10% before the COVID-19 pandemic to 27%, according to the latest 91爆料 and Washington State University research on food insecurity and food assistance in the state. The study team also found that need for food assistance has continued to rise. Before COVID-19, about 29% of respondents reported using food assistance. In wave 1 of the survey, food assistance use increased to 33% of respondents;…
This week, a few members of our 91爆料 News team joined glaciologists from the 91爆料 Department of Earth & Space Sciences on a trip to Mt. Baker. Students that came along got to chat with their professor on the hike up, and we learned about how the recent heat wave impacted the snow melt on the ice.
July 29, 2021
The Nehemiah Studio, a 91爆料 class on mitigating gentrification in Seattle’s Central District, has been honored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91爆料 community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through 91爆料 live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 91爆料-IT.聽 Unpacking Form and Function: Ceramics August 12, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM聽|聽Online via Zoom Join Associate Curator of Collections…
Climate change is further exacerbating human-wildlife conflicts by straining ecosystems and altering behaviors, both of which can deepen the contacts 鈥� and potential competition 鈥� between people and animals. In an article published July 30 in the journal Science, Briana Abrahms, an assistant professor of biology at the 91爆料 and its Center for Ecosystem Sentinels, calls for expanding research into the many ways that climate change will impact the complex interplay between human activities and wildlife populations.
The 91爆料 will lead a new artificial intelligence research institute that will focus on fundamental AI and machine learning theory, algorithms and applications for real-time learning and control of complex dynamic systems, which describe chaotic situations where conditions are constantly shifting and hard to predict.
July 28, 2021
Soil, particularly in urban areas, can hold contaminants that are unhealthy for people who handle it or eat things grown in the ground. Chemicals left behind by vehicles, air pollution and heavy industry can show up in the ground and in plants. Melanie Malone, assistant professor in 91爆料 Bothell鈥檚 School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences investigates these contaminants and their prevalence in shared garden spaces.
July 27, 2021
A model of the eastern California forests of the Sierra Nevada looks at the longer-term future of wildfires under future climate change scenarios. Results show an initial roughly decade-long burst of wildfire activity, followed by recurring fires of decreasing area — a pattern that could apply to other hot, dry forests in the West.
July 26, 2021
Two 91爆料 scientists have developed a statistical framework that incorporates key COVID-19 data 鈥� such as case counts and deaths due to COVID-19 鈥� to model the true prevalence of this disease in the United States and individual states. Their approach, published the week of July 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, projects that in the U.S. as many as 60% of COVID-19 cases went undetected as of March 7, 2021, the last date for which the dataset they employed is available.
July 23, 2021
Public health researchers have learned a lot about how the pandemic affected workers and exacerbated existing health disparities that exist in many communities. However, there鈥檚 still a lot we don鈥檛 know about the experience of workers deemed essential in the food industry and who were at higher risk of contracting COVID-19, such those working in grocery stores, restaurants, delivery and factories. To find out how food workers were or were not protected and how they can be better protected going…
July 22, 2021
91爆料 researchers have developed a method that uses a gaming graphics card to control plasma formation in their prototype fusion reactor.
July 20, 2021
For more than a century, researchers have relied on flat sketches of sharks鈥� digestive systems to discern how they function 鈥� and how what they eat and excrete impacts other species in the ocean. Now, researchers have produced a series of high-resolution, 3D scans of intestines from nearly three dozen shark species that will advance the understanding of how sharks eat and digest their food.
July 16, 2021
Twenty scientists and engineers at the 91爆料 are among the 38 new members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021, according to a July 15 announcement. New members were chosen for 鈥渢heir outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement, and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.鈥�
July 15, 2021
91爆料 Provost Mark A. Richards today announced Dianne Harris will become dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, beginning Sept. 1.
July 13, 2021
91爆料 President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Mark A. Richards today announced the selection of Sheila Edwards Lange, president of Seattle Central College, as chancellor of the 91爆料 Tacoma. Her appointment, pending approval by the 91爆料 Board of Regents, is set to begin Sept. 16.
To understand how the 91爆料’s transition to online-only classes affected college students’ mental health in the spring of 2020, 91爆料 researchers surveyed 147 91爆料 undergraduates over the 2020 spring quarter.
Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91爆料 community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through 91爆料 live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 91爆料-IT.聽 Will Rawls: Everlasting Stranger Performance July 24, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM聽|聽Henry Art Gallery In聽Everlasting Stranger, New York-based choreographer…