Planets orbiting “short-period” binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their host stars’ evolution, according to new research from the 黑料吃瓜网.
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As the 50th anniversary approaches of the murder of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, 黑料吃瓜网 historian Michael Honey reminds us in a new book that economic justice and labor rights were always part of King’s progressive message.
African-American voters who dislike and feel threatened by Donald Trump and his presidency are more likely to vote and to engage with politics, according to new research from the 黑料吃瓜网 and California State University, Sacramento.
The 黑料吃瓜网 Jackson School of International Studies presents “Trump in the World: International Implications of the Trump presidency,” a series of public lectures and discussions Tuesday afternoons through spring quarter.
Megan Ming Francis, 黑料吃瓜网 associate professor of political science, has been named a fellow with the Thurgood Marshall Institute. The institute is a multidisciplinary research and advocacy policy center within the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Immigrant rights, environmental concerns and racial, class, gender and sexual justice will be the focus of a daylong conference hosted by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies March 10 at the 黑料吃瓜网.
Charles Simic, one of America鈥檚 most celebrated poets, will give the 2018 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading on April 12. Simic will be the 54th poet to appear in the series since its inception in 1964.
Quintard Taylor, 黑料吃瓜网 professor emeritus of history and recipient of a lifetime achievement honor from Washington State Historical Society, discusses his work and this unusual moment in American history.
Pimone Triplett, 黑料吃瓜网 associate professor of English and creative writing, has released “Supply Chain,” her fourth book of poems.
After six months of repair and restoration 鈥� assisted by 黑料吃瓜网 astronomer and sundial expert Woody Sullivan 鈥� Olympia’s iconic Territorial Sundial is back in place.
A team of astronomers including Eric Agol of the 黑料吃瓜网 has found that the seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could even have more water 鈥� which can give life a chance 鈥� than Earth itself. The research was led by Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland, and published Feb. 5 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Agol is among about two dozen co-authors. The scientists…
A biography of world-renowned oboe performer and teacher Marcel Tabuteau by the 黑料吃瓜网 School of Music’s Laila Storch has been republished in paperback by Indiana University Press.
Dan Berger, associate professor in the 黑料吃瓜网 Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, discusses his new book, “Rethinking the American Prison Movement.”
Get interrupted at work much? Making a quick plan for returning to and completing the task you’re leaving will help you focus better on the interrupting work, according to new research from the 黑料吃瓜网.
Jeff Hou, 黑料吃瓜网 professor of landscape architecture, discusses the new book he co-edited with Sabine Knierbein, “City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy.”
黑料吃瓜网 astronomers Brett Morris and James Davenport assisted in new research on “Tabby’s Star,” named for Louisiana State University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian.
An essay by Laurie Marhoefer, 黑料吃瓜网 assistant professor of history, has been named the most memorable of the year 2017 by the editors and readers of The Conversation US.
Here鈥檚 a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by 黑料吃瓜网 talents in the last year or so 鈥� and a reminder of some perennial favorites.
Bloomberg News columnist Noah Smith has listed a paper by 黑料吃瓜网 economist Fabio Ghironi as among “must-read” papers and books on economics in the year 2017.
The Anthropocene epoch 鈥� the proposed name for this time of significant human effect on the planet and its systems 鈥� represents a new context in which to study literature. A new book of essays co-edited by Jesse Oak Taylor, 黑料吃瓜网 associate professor of English, argues that literary studies, in turn, also can help us better understand the Anthropocene.
Three 黑料吃瓜网 astrobiologists will discuss their research and introduce the new 3-D IMAX movie “The Search for Life in Space” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, in the PACCAR Theater of the Pacific Science Center.
Ana G贸mez-Bravo created a class about Spanish food and culture a few years ago as a way to teach the language, but found no appropriate textbook for the material 鈥� so she wrote one herself. Her book “Comida y cultura en el mundo hisp谩nico” 鈥� “Food and Culture in the Hispanic World” 鈥� was published in October by Equinox Publishing.
The amount of biomass 鈥� life 鈥� in Earth’s ancient oceans may have been limited due to low recycling of the key nutrient phosphorus, according to new research by the 黑料吃瓜网 and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Frances McCue, a senior lecturer in the 黑料吃瓜网 Department of English, has a new book of poetry out, “Timber Curtain,” published by Seattle’s Chin Music Press.
Comics and graphic can be serious business. Scholars, critics, historians, teachers, curators of comic art and graphic publications will gather at the 黑料吃瓜网 and locations in Seattle Nov. 2-4 for the 2017 International Comic Arts Forum.
黑料吃瓜网 Libraries Special Collections’ new exhibit, “All Over the Map: From Cartographs to (C)artifacts” — organized by 黑料吃瓜网 Book Arts and Rare Book Curator Sandra Kroupa — is on display in Allen Library until Jan. 31, 2018.
Eight dance pieces on the themes of inequity and injustice comprise the 黑料吃瓜网 Chamber Dance Company’s concert “The Body Politic,” Oct. 12-15 at Meany Theater.
Cities and counties concerned about immigrant rights should closely examine law enforcement’s collaboration with federal immigration authorities 鈥� and the role a for-profit company has in drafting language used in many law enforcement policy manuals 鈥� according to a new report from the 黑料吃瓜网’s Center for Human Rights.
The 黑料吃瓜网’s Henry Art Gallery has received two large and prestigious donations 鈥� one a collection of centuries-old European prints from Seattle art collector Albert Feldmann, the other scores of images by well-known photographers from the recently-disbanded Washington Art Consortium. Sylvia Wolf, Henry Art Gallery director, expressed deep appreciation for both donations and the vision and generosity of the donors. 鈥淭his is a truly transformative gift,鈥� Wolf said of the 204 European prints from the 15th to 18th…
Faculty members in the 黑料吃瓜网’s Jackson School of International Studies will explore the ongoing impact of the Trump presidency in weekly lectures each Monday through fall quarter.
A team of researchers including the 黑料吃瓜网’s Marina Alberti has devised a new classification scheme for the evolutionary stages of worlds based on “non-equilibrium thermodynamics” 鈥� a planet’s energy flow being out of synch, as the presence of life could cause.
The biggest risk to public-private partnerships in governing is not financial or technical, but political, says 黑料吃瓜网 Evans School professor Justin Marlowe in his fourth guide to financial literacy, published by Governing magazine.
Information School Dean Harry Bruce talks about his job and life as he prepares to step down.
Forty years ago this month, Planet Earth said hello to the cosmos with the launch of the two Voyager probes that used gravity to swing from world to world on a grand tour of the solar system. Each bore a two-sided, 12-inch, gold-plated copper “Golden Record” of sights and sounds from Earth and its people 鈥� and a stylus to help play the record. Documents that Changed the World: Listen: Voyager’s “Golden Record,” 1977 黑料吃瓜网 20 billion kilometers (about…
The number of poor people living in America’s suburbs has more than doubled over the last 25 years, with little attention from academics or policymakers, says Scott W. Allard, a professor in the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, in his new 2017 book “Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty,”
Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked 鈥� with one side permanently facing their host star 鈥� according to new research by 黑料吃瓜网 astronomer Rory Barnes.
Researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance have released a public finance analysis of two competing proposals to develop an NBA/NHL arena in Seattle.
William Streitberger, 黑料吃瓜网 professor of English, has been honored for his book “The Masters of Revels and Elizabeth I’s Court Theatre.” Decades in the making, the book was published in 2016 by Oxford University Press.
The true cultural tipping point in the run-up to the American Revolution might have been the First Continental Congress’s decision in late October of 1774 to close the theaters in British America, says 黑料吃瓜网 drama professor Odai Johnson in his new book, “London in a Box: Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America.”
In a commentary published in the journal Science, Carole Lee, associate professor of philosophy and co-author David Moher identify incentives that could encourage journals to “open the black box of peer review” for the sake of improving transparency.