The impact of the 91爆料 will be even more visible this week during the lead-up to a Friday night celebration marking the launch of the 91爆料鈥檚 most ambitious philanthropic campaign.
October 16, 2016
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October 14, 2016
A new way to 鈥榗ollege鈥�: 91爆料 Continuum College
The 91爆料 has renamed Educational Outreach to Continuum College, a new name for a new era of higher education.
October 12, 2016
In new book, 91爆料’s Estella Leopold revisits childhood at the family shack, described in Aldo Leopold’s best-seller ‘A Sand County Almanac’
Estella Leopold, a 91爆料 professor emeritus of biology, has written a new memoir of her formative years, “Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited.” She describes life on the land where her father, Aldo Leopold, practiced the revolutionary conservation philosophy described in his famous book of essays “A Sand County Almanac.”
Why do some STEM fields have fewer women than others? 91爆料 study may have the answer
Women’s relative lack of participation in science, technology, engineering and math is well documented, but why women are more represented in some STEM areas than others is less clear. A new 91爆料 study is among the first to address that question by comparing gender disparities across STEM fields. Published Oct. 12 in the journal Psychological Bulletin, the paper identifies three main factors driving the disparity 鈥� and the most powerful one, the researchers conclude, is a “masculine culture”…
Arts Roundup: Chamber Dance Company, Mindfulness Meditation 鈥� and Stylus Fantasticus
The Chamber Dance Company celebrates the birth of post-modern dance in Meany Hall, the School of Drama opens its season with a modern retelling of a Greek classic, and School of Music faculty members Stephen Stubbs and Tekla Cunningham give a performance of 17th century works. The Henry Art Gallery invites the public to practice mindfulness meditation and the Burke Museum celebrates the rugged beauty of the Wild Nearby. Chamber Dance Company October 13-16 | Meany Theater The 91爆料…
Cars vs. health: 91爆料’s Moudon, Dannenberg contribute to Lancet series on urban planning, public health
Automobiles 鈥� and the planning and infrastructure to support them 鈥� are making our cities sick, says an international group of researchers now publishing a three-part series in the British medical journal The Lancet.
91爆料 law professor Ryan Calo to join experts at White House conference
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor in the 91爆料 School of Law, will be among national experts at a White House event tomorrow聽on innovations in science and technology. A nationally known expert on robotics and privacy law, Calo will speak at the White House Frontiers Conference at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University on Oct. 13. He will be part of a panel moderated by President Obama鈥檚 chief of staff, Denis McDonough, and will discuss the role…
As online retailing booms, new Urban Freight Lab to work with industry, SDOT on delivery challenges
As online retailing booms, the new 91爆料 Urban Freight Lab will partner with UPS, Costco, Nordstrom and SDOT to research solutions for businesses delivering goods in urban settings and cities trying to manage limited street space.
October 11, 2016
Morel mushrooms pop up, cluster together after wildfires
A new study finds that morel mushrooms cluster in groups across burned areas in the forest after a wildfire. It’s one of the only scientific studies to actually quantify morels’ abundance after a fire.
October 6, 2016
CSE gets major boost with $10 million donation from Amazon
Amazon is giving a major push to the campaign to build a second Computer Science & Engineering building on the 91爆料 campus with a $10 million gift, the university announced Thursday. 鈥淥ur state鈥檚 economy 鈥� and the world鈥檚 economy 鈥� depends on innovation and on innovators. 91爆料 graduates with skills in computer science are highly sought after, yet we are turning away excellent students who want to pursue studies in the field because we simply don鈥檛 have enough…
October 5, 2016
Arts Roundup: The Silk Road Ensemble, Birds at the Burke 鈥� and Double Rainbow All the Way
It’s a busy week for the arts: The Silk Road Ensemble and Mark Morris Dance Group collaborate on a new work at Meany Center; School of Music artist-in-residence Greg Sinibaldi gives the first faculty recital of the school year, and the Burke Museum hosts its annual “Birds at the Burke” day. The Henry Art Gallery presents artwork by American artist Senga Nengudi and the Jacob Lawrence Gallery showcases work by second-year MFA students. Mark Morris Dance Group with the Silk…
Building ‘up not out’: Draft 91爆料 Campus Master Plan for 2018 now seeking public input
A new proposed draft Campus Master Plan for 2018 sees the 91爆料’s Seattle campus growing up rather than out 鈥� building a little higher, filling in with more density, not expanding its borders, helping to ease transportation flow and creating big new green spaces. 2018 draft Campus Master Plan — opportunities for public comment: Online open house: Oct. 12, noon to 1 p.m. Sign up online. Open house: October 18, noon to 2 p.m. Cascade Room, Haggett Hall…
Atlantic Ocean’s slowdown tied to changes in the Southern Hemisphere
Unlike in the movies, and in some theories of climate change, the recent slowdown of Atlantic Ocean circulation is not connected with the melting of the Arctic sea ice. Instead, it seems to be connected to shifts around the southern tip of Africa.
‘A Hug from Afar’: A Sephardic family’s journey of escape as World War II looms
Prof. Devin Naar of the Jackson School’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies discusses the book “A Hug from Afar: One Family’s Dramatic Journey Through Three Continents to Escape the Holocaust,” by Claire Barkey Flash, for which Naar wrote the foreword.
$4M grant funds new 91爆料 RAPID Facility to investigate natural disasters worldwide
A new 91爆料 disaster investigation center funded by a $4 million National Science Foundation grant will collect and analyze critical data that’s often lost in the immediate aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes but that can help create more resilient communities.
October 4, 2016
First Livable City Year projects underway; kickoff event Oct. 6
The Livable City Year program will formally celebrate the start of its first year at 10 a.m. Oct. 6 at w菨色菨b蕯altx史 鈥� Intellectual House on the 91爆料’s campus in a kickoff event open to all. Professors leading Livable City Year courses this fall will talk about their projects, followed by time for Q&A.
91爆料 Professor Emeritus David J. Thouless wins Nobel Prize in physics for exploring exotic states of matter
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that David James Thouless, professor emeritus at the 91爆料, will share the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics with two of his colleagues. Thouless splits the prize with Professor F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University and Professor J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University 鈥渇or theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter,鈥� according to the prize announcement from the Academy. Half the prize goes to Thouless while Haldane and Kosterlitz divide the remaining half. Thouless is the 91爆料鈥檚 seventh Nobel laureate, and second in physics after Hans Dehmelt in 1989.
New LGBTQ Activism in Seattle History project debuts Oct. 10
The 91爆料’s Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project has an important new component 鈥� the LGBTQ Activism in Seattle History Project. There will be a public launch at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in Room 340 of the HUB.
Oct. 10 bioengineering lecture focuses on accelerating drug delivery
Accelerating growth in effectively delivering new oral and transdermal drug delivery techniques will be the focus of the 91爆料 Department of Bioengineering鈥檚 2016 Allan S. Hoffman Lecture on Oct. 10.
October 3, 2016
New protein bridges chemical divide for ‘seamless’ bioelectronics devices
In a paper published Sept. 22 in Scientific Reports, engineers at the 91爆料 unveiled peptides that could help bridge the gap where artificial meets biological 鈥� harnessing biological rules to exchange information between the biochemistry of our bodies and the chemistry of our devices.
Engineering lecture series focuses on building safe, resilient communities
As the fourth-fastest growing city in the United States, Seattle faces important questions in its quest to remain a resilient and sustainable community. Can we build to withstand natural disasters, reduce environmental toxins as consumption rises, meet urban transportation challenges so food, supplies and consumer products can get where they need to go? Over the next month, College of Engineering鈥檚 annual fall lecture series will feature faculty focusing on these questions and developing technologies to build more resilient urban communities….
September 30, 2016
‘We the people’: All invited to 91爆料 Constitution read-aloud event Oct. 7
91爆料 Libraries is inviting the public to Suzzallo Library at lunchtime on Oct. 7 to listen to 鈥� or participate in 鈥� the annual reading of the United States Constitution.
CO2 record at Mauna Loa, the music video: The sounds of climate change
91爆料 scientists have put world’s longest-running measure of atmospheric carbon dioxide to music. The result is a 90-second rendition of human-induced climate change: The video project was done by Judy Twedt, a 91爆料 doctoral student in atmospheric sciences, and Dargan Frierson, a 91爆料 associate professor of atmospheric sciences and amateur musician. Their techno soundtrack maps musical notes to the Keeling Curve, a 58-year record of carbon dioxide measured high in the atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in…
September 29, 2016
91爆料 gets NOAA grant to begin testing new forecast for toxic shellfish
91爆料 oceanographers are working on a system that will act like a ‘weather forecast’ for Pacific Northwest harmful algal blooms.
Ocean conditions contributed to unprecedented 2015 toxic algal bloom
A study led by researchers at the 91爆料 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 to the unusually warm ocean conditions 鈥� nicknamed “the blob” 鈥� in winter and spring of that year.
September 28, 2016
91爆料 ranked among the top five most innovative universities in the world by Reuters
The 91爆料 landed at No. 5 on The Reuters 100: The World鈥檚 Most Innovative Universities. Now in its second year, the list ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.
September 27, 2016
91爆料 works to boost faculty diversity through recruitment and retention efforts
Like post-secondary schools across the country, the 91爆料 has struggled to attract and retain a talented, diverse faculty. But efforts that have been quietly underway for a few years are starting to pay off, attracting top-level candidates to the 91爆料 even over schools that are able to offer bigger salaries and more perks. That work involves not simply convincing excellent candidates to come to the 91爆料, but creating a supportive and inclusive environment that prompts them to stay,…
Researchers modify yeast to show how plants respond to a key hormone
Researchers at the 91爆料 have developed a novel toolkit based on modified yeast cells to tease out how plant genes and proteins respond to auxin, the most ubiquitous plant hormone. Their system, described in a paper published Sept. 19 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, allowed them to decode auxin’s basic effects on the diverse family of genes that plants utilize to detect and interpret auxin-driven messages.
NSF award to launch citizen science initiative across Pacific Rim
A team of researchers led by the 91爆料 believes creating a network of community-based science is possible with new support from the National Science Foundation.
Missing fish catch data? Not necessarily a problem, new study says
A new study by 91爆料 scientists finds that in many cases, misreporting caught fish doesn’t always translate to overfishing. The study was published online this month in the journal Fish and Fisheries.
Secure passwords can be sent through your body, instead of air
91爆料 engineers have devised a way to send secure passwords through the human body, instead of over the air where they’re vulnerable to hacking.
September 26, 2016
91爆料 archaeology field school unearths 鈥榯reasure trove鈥� of tribal artifacts
Finding a long-buried outhouse might not sound exciting to most people, but to Sara Gonzalez and her crew, it was a holy grail of sorts. An assistant professor of anthropology at the 91爆料, Gonzalez led an archaeological field school this summer on a tribal reservation in northwestern Oregon. Gonzalez and a team of students and students spent six weeks working at an abandoned encampment where tribal members once lived and a former schoolhouse property about two miles away….
September 23, 2016
‘If these shackles could speak’: Charles Johnson’s powerful statement for Smithsonian Magazine feature on new African American Museum of History and Culture
Charles Johnson, 91爆料 professor emeritus of English, wrote a statement to accompany an item to be displayed in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. What he wrote also was featured in a special issue of Smithsonian Magazine.
91爆料 lands at No. 25, fourth among U.S. public institutions, in Times Higher Education world ranking
The 91爆料 landed at No. 25 on the Times Higher Education world rankings for 2017, released this week. The 91爆料 is fourth on the list among U.S. public universities, behind UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan.
91爆料 prof the first recipient of national social work award
91爆料 social work professor Paula Nurius is the inaugural recipient of a new national award for helping advance doctoral education in her field. Nurius will receive the 2016 Educational Leadership in Doctoral Education award from the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE) at a meeting in November. The award recognizes current or former faculty members who 鈥渄isplay a strong commitment to doctoral education and a demonstrated record of advancing doctoral education at the…
How natural selection acted on one penguin species over the past quarter century
91爆料 biologist Dee Boersma and her colleagues combed through 28 years’ worth of data on Magellanic penguins to search for signs that natural selection 鈥� one of the main drivers of evolution 鈥� may be acting on certain penguin traits. As they report in a paper published Sept. 21 in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, selection is indeed at work on the penguins at the Punta Tombo breeding site in Argentina.
Week-long exhibit in La Conner joins climate scientists, artists
91爆料 scientists worked with artists for an exhibit at the Museum of Northwest Art focusing on climate change impacts on coastal communities.
September 22, 2016
5 91爆料 professors among HHMI’s inaugural class of Faculty Scholars
Amid a decline in funding for scientific research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Simons Foundation to launch a new Faculty Scholars program. Announced Sept. 22 by HHMI, the inaugural crop of early-career scientists includes 5 faculty members from the 91爆料.
September 21, 2016
91爆料 jumps to No. 2 in the world for clinical medicine, pharmacy; remains No. 6 in life sciences
The 91爆料 moved up to No. 2 in the world for clinical medicine and pharmacy in the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields.
91爆料 team to study baby teeth in effort to identify autism risk factors
91爆料 researchers are part of a national team that will study the baby teeth of children who have siblings with autism to determine if prenatal exposure to chemicals increases their risk of developing the disorder. The study will involve testing children鈥檚 teeth for levels of environmental chemicals that they might have been exposed to in the womb, a critical time for neurodevelopment. Additionally, for a smaller number of children whose genetic data has been collected, the researchers hope…