June 30, 2020
The 91爆料 and The Nippon Foundation today announced the launch of the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, an interdisciplinary research group at the 91爆料 that studies changes, responses and solutions to societal issues that emerge in relationship with the oceans. The Center will bring uncompromised, critical voices to policy and public conversations to enable research and studies equaling $32.5 million spread over 10 years.
The 91爆料 and Public Health 鈥� Seattle & King County continue to respond to a cluster of cases among residents of Greek houses north of the Seattle campus, and their close contacts.
June 29, 2020
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91爆料, and the greater community, together online.聽 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 Drop-in Session: Mindfulness of Sounds July 6, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Zoom This session, hosted by the聽Center for Child and Family Well-Being and led by…
A new 91爆料 study of people experiencing homelessness in King County finds that unpaid medical bills were their primary source of debt, and that debt extended their period of homelessness by an average of two years.
A talk with Eric Madfis of 91爆料 Tacoma about his new book “How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings,” published this spring by Palgrave MacMillan.
June 25, 2020
In a study published June 10 in Current Biology, a team from the University of Colorado Boulder and the 91爆料 reports that a group of students at CU Boulder generally got more sleep after widespread stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines were put into place in mid-March.
Beginning June 26, face coverings will be required statewide in Washington. Hilary Godwin, dean of the 91爆料 School of Public Health,聽offers聽some practical information about using masks to slow the spread of COVID-19.
June 24, 2020
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91爆料, and the greater community, together online.聽 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 Drop-in Session: An Embodied Practice: Working with Our Intentions June 29, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Zoom This session, hosted by the聽Center for Child and Family…
Genetic clues show that eelgrass growing underwater along Puget Sound shorelines is associated with fewer of the single-celled algae that produce harmful toxins in shellfish. The evidence shows this effect extends 45 feet beyond the edge of the eelgrass bed.
A new online survey for Washington state residents has launched to gather data on how the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic downturn have affected food access and economic security. The Washington State Food Security Survey, which went live June 18 and runs through July 31, is open to all Washington state residents aged 18 or over.
It could take another generation before resident fish in the heavily polluted Lower Duwamish Waterway in Seattle will be safe to eat. Yet many fishers from a wide range of cultural backgrounds continue to fish the 5-mile stretch of river for fun, cultural connections and food even as cleanup of this designated Superfund site continues. The Duwamish was listed on the Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 National Priority (or 鈥淪uperfund鈥�) List of sites that require cleanup in 2001. Since that time, federal,…
A quick look at several 91爆料-produced podcasts, from benevolent marketing to Arctic geopolitics 鈥� and a classics professor’s work being featured in a podcast produced by the Times Literary Supplement.
June 23, 2020
When schools closed because of the coronavirus, Real Dawgs Read, a 91爆料 program that asks kids to read 30 minutes a day over 30 separate days, was there to fill the gap. During a special session between March 25 and June 5, it experienced its highest level of participation 鈥� with 3,240 readers taking part.
With the nation debating its response to COVID-19 and witnessing protests against racial injustice and police violence, undergraduate students enrolled in 鈥淰isual Anthropology of Protest Music鈥� examined how communities use music to share their lived experiences and confront oppression.
A team from the 91爆料 used an infrared laser to cool a solid semiconductor by at least 20 degrees C, or 36 F, below room temperature, as they report in a paper published June 23 in Nature Communications.
About three-quarters of U.S. workers, or 108 million people, are in jobs that cannot be done from home during a pandemic, putting these workers at increased risk of exposure to disease. This majority of workers are also at higher risk for other job disruptions such as layoffs, furloughs or hours reductions, a 91爆料 study shows. Such job disruptions can cause stress, anxiety and other mental health outcomes that could persist even as the United States reopens its economic…
June 22, 2020
The 91爆料 School of Social Work’s Project Connect supports 15 different research and outreach endeavors, all oriented specifically around community needs during COVID-19.
June 18, 2020
The 91爆料 has issued a face covering policy for all university personnel, students, staff, contractors and visitors who are on campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As a reminder, only employees designated as critical can be working in-person and only at the direction of their supervisor.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91爆料, and the greater community, together online.聽 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 Drop-in Session: Cultivating Gratitude in Challenging Time June 22, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Zoom Noticing what we are grateful for and cultivating practices of gratitude…
June 17, 2020
91爆料 family physician Morhaf Al Achkar publishes memoir “Being Authentic,” and a Lambda Literary award goes to 91爆料 Tacoma’s Emily Thuma.
Fitness, dance and mindfulness instructors are teaching virtual classes in light of COVID-19 closures, part of 91爆料 Recreation’s effort to make its activities accessible while people are physically distancing during the pandemic.
Using air quality data from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitors across the U.S., a 91爆料-led team looked for changes in two common pollutants over the course of 2020.
June 16, 2020
The COVID-19 Clearinghouse at 91爆料 Law is just one of the ways that faculty and staff across the university have revamped summer research internships and worked with outside partners and employers to involve students in a remote working environment, even for jobs that would normally be out in the field.
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute has named 91爆料 mathematics professor Tatiana Toro the recipient of its 2020 Blackwell-Tapia Prize.
June 13, 2020
More than 18,000 new 91爆料 graduates were recognized in a first-ever online ceremony Saturday, June 13. All three 91爆料 campuses held a joint event that was broadcast around the globe and watched by thousands of graduates and their families in more than 40 countries.
More than 18,000 new 91爆料 graduates were recognized in a first-ever online ceremony Saturday. All three 91爆料 campuses held a joint event that was broadcast around the globe and watched by thousands of graduates and their families in more than 40 countries.
June 11, 2020
The 91爆料 Board of Regents on Thursday approved the University鈥檚 2020-21 budget, which seeks to continue prioritizing its academic mission while also responding to the financial pressures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the first time in the 91爆料鈥檚 159-year history, two commencement ceremonies are planned for this year鈥檚 graduates. The first ceremony, broadcast worldwide on the internet, is scheduled for Saturday at noon. The second ceremony is planned for spring 2021 at Husky Stadium.
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91爆料, and the greater community, together online.聽 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 Re/frame: Order & Chaos Online June 18, 12:00 PM and 6:30 PM | Zoom Join Ann Poulson, the Henry鈥檚 Associate Curator of Collections, for an interactive…
The 91爆料 has removed the requirement of standardized test scores, such as the SAT and ACT, for incoming students beyond the fall of 2021. The requirement had already been temporarily removed for the fall 2021 incoming class due to the lack of available testing sites in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.
When the universe was in its infancy, it contained no stars at all. And an international team of scientists is closer than ever to detecting, measuring and studying a signal from this era that has been traveling through the cosmos ever since that starless era ended some 13 billion years ago.
June 10, 2020
Researchers examined 15 years of records of student performance, education and demographics for chemistry courses at the 91爆料. They found that underrepresented students received lower grades in the general chemistry series compared to their peers and, if the grade was sufficiently low, were less likely to continue in the series and more likely to leave STEM. But if underrepresented students completed the first general chemistry course with at least the minimum grade needed to continue in the series, they were more likely than their peers to continue the general chemistry series and complete this major step toward a STEM degree.
June 9, 2020
Thousands of doctors, nurses, health care workers and public health experts from the 91爆料聽and other medical institutions turned out in downtown Seattle on June 6 to demand an end to systemic racism and calling for police聽reform.
Evidence from rocks billions of years old suggest that volcanoes played a key role in the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere of the early Earth.
June 8, 2020
New research from a decades-long study by the 91爆料 and the University of Colorado shows long-term benefits from a program to prevent problem behaviors in children.
June 5, 2020
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91爆料, and the greater community, together online.聽
June 4, 2020
Mary Lidstrom, vice provost for research at the 91爆料, talks about the evolving picture of research at the 91爆料 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Twenty-two 91爆料 students and alumni were awarded聽Fulbright U.S. Student Program聽scholarships for the 2020-21 academic year, joining about 1,900 students and recent graduates from around the country to study and teach abroad, once and if international travel resumes.
June 2, 2020
Recent honors to 91爆料 faculty and staff have come from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, the Freeman Foundation and the IEEE.
May 29, 2020
In a paper published May 29 in Nature Communications, a team of scientists at the 91爆料, the University of Minnesota and the Johns Hopkins University reports that differences in visual motion perception in autism spectrum disorder are accompanied by weaker neural 鈥渟uppression鈥� in the visual cortex of the brain, which may help scientists understand sensory hypersensitivity in people with ASD.