August 17, 2016
“Interscatter” communication developed by 91±¬ΑΟ engineers allows power-limited devices such as brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards and smaller wearable electronics to talk to everyday devices such as smartphones and watches.
August 16, 2016
Large, carnivorous fish excrete almost half of the key nutrients, phosphorus and nitrogen, that are essential for the survival of coral reefs.
August 15, 2016
A detailed look at how sound waves bounce off a flying moth’s body offers new clues for how its long, twisted tail might help it evade predatory bats.
91±¬ΑΟ biologist Peter Ward’s body of research has helped policymakers recognize the impact nautiluses have on ocean ecosystems, as well as how they can β and cannot β replenish their numbers in the face of unrestricted, unregulated fishing. At a CITES meeting in September, Ward and his team hope nautiluses will get much-needed protections from trade and harvesting.
At the USENIX Security Conference in Austin, Texas, a team of 91±¬ΑΟ researchers on Aug. 12 presented the first-ever comprehensive analysis of third-party web tracking across three decades and a new tool, TrackingExcavator, which they developed to extract and analyze tracking behaviors on a given web page. They saw a four-fold increase in third-party tracking on top sites from 1996 to 2016, and mapped the growing complexity of trackers stretching back decades.
August 12, 2016
The editorial cartoons filling a ground floor exhibit in Suzzallo Library through November are hard-hitting, but they fairly depict the wild campaign of 2016, and the serious issues the year has brought as well.
Phil Levin, a former senior scientist at NOAA Fisheries, recently began a joint role at the 91±¬ΑΟ and The Nature Conservancy. 91±¬ΑΟ Today sat down with Levin to find out why he took this job and what he hopes to accomplish.
August 9, 2016
Charles Eriksen, Deborah Kelley and Stephen Warren are among 60 newly elected fellows from U.S. and international institutions.
What does it mean for a city to “think like a planet”? Marina Alberti of the 91±¬ΑΟ College of Built Environments discusses her new book, “Cities that Think Like Planets,” published by 91±¬ΑΟ Press.
August 8, 2016
Simon Stevenson of the United Kingdom’s University of Reading will be the next director of the 91±¬ΑΟ’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies, in the College of Built Environments.
August 5, 2016
91±¬ΑΟ employees are invited to attend an open forum either Monday, Aug. 15, 1:30-2:30 p.m.Β in Odegaard 220 or Wednesday, Aug. 17, 1:30-2:30 p.m.Β in the HUB, Room 250, to learn more about the design of the HR/Payroll Integrated Service Center.Β Β The goal of the centerβ―is to provide a single point of contact to effectively support faculty, staff and student employees with their human resources, academic human resourcesβ―and payroll-related questions and service needs. Data input sessions last winter garnered more…
August 4, 2016
A Science commentary written by 91±¬ΑΟ professor of Earth and space sciences David Montgomery discusses how recent geological findings support the historical basis for traditional tales about China’s Great Flood.
A wild-eyed television preacher, uncensored public access nuttiness, even a young Ellen DeGeneres featured on a local comedy show segment β when Stephen Groening had students explore the history of local television for a class, they sure found a lot of good stuff.
August 2, 2016
Justin Camputaro, with more than 15 years of experience in higher education administration, joined the 91±¬ΑΟ as the new director of the Husky Union Building, effective July 18.
August 1, 2016
A dozen scientists and engineers from the 91±¬ΑΟ have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. According to a statement released by the organization, the new members were selected for “their outstanding record of scientific achievement and willingness to work on behalf of the academy in bringing the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.” Three of the new members from 91±¬ΑΟ were chosen because they had been elected recently to…
Bernard Dean, who brings two decades of state and local government experience, has been appointed director of state relations at the 91±¬ΑΟ, effective Sept. 1.
July 31, 2016
The following is a statement from 91±¬ΑΟ President Ana Mari Cauce on the shooting of four individuals in Mukilteo this weekend, three of whom β Anna Bui, Jordan Ebner, and Jake Long β were killed, and one of whom β Will Kramer β was wounded and is at Harborview Medical Center. Bui was a student at 91±¬ΑΟ Bothell, while Kramer is a student on the 91±¬ΑΟβs Seattle campus. βWords are inadequate to address the bloodshed that occurred this…
July 28, 2016
A new study from the 91±¬ΑΟ’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies suggests that Seattle and Washington state could invite development of more affordable housing by easing the legal risk β or the appearance of risk β in condominium development, construction, liability and insurance.
July 27, 2016
A study of the the first clean cookstove intervention in India financed through the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism found expected benefits from newer, more “efficient” stoves β based on their performance in lab tests β did not materialize in the field.
Middle school students tried their hands at designing and building underwater robots this week during a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration science summer camp in Seattle. The ROV workshop was a joint project by 91±¬ΑΟ-based Washington Sea Grant, NOAA and Atlantis STEAM.
July 25, 2016
The lot of Seattle’s lowest-paid workers improved following the city’s minimum wage increase to $11 in 2015, but that was more due to the robust regional economy than the wage hike itself, according to a research team headed by the 91±¬ΑΟ Evans School.
Polar oceans pump organic carbon down to the deep sea about five times as efficiently as subtropical waters, because they can support larger, heavier organisms. The finding helps explain how the oceans may function under climate change.
July 21, 2016
The 91±¬ΑΟ received a record $542.4 million in the 2016 fiscal year, ending June 30, breaking the previous record of $482.5 million set in 2013-14. The funds came in the form of private gifts and grants earmarked by individuals, corporations and foundations for specific areas of research, labs, faculty, and student scholarships and programs.
A team of researchers from the 91±¬ΑΟ and the University of Trento in Italy unveiled an engineered protein that they designed to repress a specific cancer-promoting message within cells.
A chance meeting with a fellow scientist 27 years ago forever changed Randy Kyesβ life β catapulting him from North Carolina to Indonesia and beyond. As the founding director of the 91±¬ΑΟβs Center for Global Field Study and head of the Division of Global Programs at the Washington National Primate Research Center, Kyes has spent almost three decades leading field courses on environmental and global health in a dozen countries. Often accompanied by students from the 91±¬ΑΟ and…
A personalized image search engine developed by a 91±¬ΑΟ researcher lets a person imagine how they would look a with different a hairstyle, if they lived in a different time period or any other appearance change that can be synthesized with internet photos.
July 19, 2016
91±¬ΑΟ professor Adam Summers is scanning and digitizing all 25,000 species of fish that live on Earth. Each species soon will have a high-resolution, 3-D visual replica online, available to all and downloadable for free.
A 91±¬ΑΟ team has shed new light on a common but poorly understood bacteria known to live in low-oxygen areas in the ocean. By culturing and sequencing the microbe’s entire genome, the oceanographers found that it significantly contributes to the removal of life-supporting nitrogen from the water in new and surprising ways.
July 18, 2016
The 91±¬ΑΟ has been recognized as a βGreat College to Work Forβ by the Chronicle of Higher Education for the third consecutive year.
July 15, 2016
The Geological Society of America has honored two 91±¬ΑΟ professors and other authors of a 186-page report on the causes and consequences of the deadly March 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington.
July 14, 2016
At a time of intense national attention on law enforcement and race, a new 91±¬ΑΟ study suggests that racially based fear plays a role in public support for policing reforms. The research, conducted by 91±¬ΑΟ postdoctoral researcher Allison Skinner and published online July 12 in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology, used a series of experiments to gauge participantsβ level of support for policing reforms in relation to whether they felt threatened by police officers or black men….
A research team including 91±¬ΑΟ’s Laura Prugh has found that within 30 years of cougars recolonizing the Eastern U.S., large cats could thin deer populations and reduce vehicle collisions by 22 percent β each year preventing five human fatalities, 680 injuries and avoiding costs of $50 million.
July 13, 2016
At meetings with Native American community leaders, educators in the 91±¬ΑΟβs College of Education repeatedly heard the same question β what can be done to improve educational outcomes among Native learners? Those discussions led to the creation of the 91±¬ΑΟβs new two-year Native Education Certificate program, which launches in August. The 10-unit curriculum mixes online learning with hands-on projects in participantsβ communities, with the goal of providing more meaningful and culturally relevant education for Native students. “There is…
In a three-page commentary in the journal Nature, fisheries professor Ray Hilborn argues that establishing marine protected areas is not as effective at protecting marine biodiversity as properly managing recreational and commercial fisheries.
July 12, 2016
When editors at Time magazine compiled a list of expert picks for “25 Moments that Changed America,” 91±¬ΑΟ Bothell’s Dan Berger was among the historians they reached out to for a contribution. An assistant professor in Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Berger was asked to choose a “moment” β trends and social movements were not allowed β and write something brief about it. The article ran on June 28 on the Time’s website and in its many social…
July 11, 2016
Scientists from the 91±¬ΑΟ recently reported a relatively simple method swell the tiny, complex structures within cells, bringing them within range of a common microscope’s resolving range.
July 8, 2016
A 91±¬ΑΟ computer science and engineering doctoral student has helped develop a system that can forecast the outbreak of dengue fever by simply analyzing the calling behavior of citizens to a public-health hotline.
“Excitation” is not just a scientific term or perfect Beach Boys lyric, it’s also the topic of this year’s cross-disciplinary Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities, an intensive summer research program for undergraduate students.
July 7, 2016
With Arctic sea ice roughly tied with previous record-low years, a 91±¬ΑΟ tool that tallies the total volume of ice in the Arctic Ocean is attracting attention.
91±¬ΑΟ and Microsoft researchers have broken what they believe is the world record for the amount of digital data successfully stored β and retrieved β in DNA molecules by encoding, among other things, an OK Go video.