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窪蹋勛圖厙 political scientist Megan Ming Francis says there is a dearth of academic book series being published on topics of race, ethnicity and politics. Now, she will start to change that. An associate professor of political science, Francis will be the editor of a new series of books from Cambridge University Press called Cambridge Elements in Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Francis, on leave and at Harvard for the 2019-2020 school year, answered a few questions about the new…

Ashleigh Theberge, a 窪蹋勛圖厙 assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2019 Packard Fellow for her research on cell signaling. Every year since 1988, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering to early-career scientists to pursue the types of innovative projects that often fall outside the purview of traditional sources of funding, such as research grants from government agencies. As one of 22 fellows for 2019, Theberge will receive $875,000…

While gun violence in America kills more than 35,000 people a year and as calls for policies to stem the crisis grow, 窪蹋勛圖厙 researchers point out in a new analysis that barriers to data stand in the way of advancing solutions. Firearm data availability, accessibility and infrastructure need to be substantially improved to reduce the burden of the public health crisis of firearm violence,” said Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, lead co-author and associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology…

The new building on the 窪蹋勛圖厙s Seattle campus that will be home to some of the key departments at the center of the universitys Population Health Initiative was named in honor of Dr. Hans Rosling on Oct. 10, 2019, by the 窪蹋勛圖厙 Board of Regents. The $230 million building under construction on the universitys Seattle campus is now the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health. Rosling was a Swedish doctor, statistician, author and professor, whose work in popularizing…

Joel S. Migdal, professor in the 窪蹋勛圖厙 Jackson School of International Studies, will celebrate retirement after 39 years at the 窪蹋勛圖厙 on Oct. 3 with a daylong workshop featuring current and former students, followed by a lecture on State and Society: Then and Now.

Two 窪蹋勛圖厙 researchers Bonnie Light, a principal physicist at the 窪蹋勛圖厙’s Applied Physics Laboratory and an affiliate associate professor of atmospheric sciences, and Madison Smith, a recent 窪蹋勛圖厙 graduate who is now doing her postdoctoral research at the 窪蹋勛圖厙 will join for the fifth of the six two-month legs, in summer 2020.

Lukasz Fidkowski, an assistant professor of physics at the 窪蹋勛圖厙, is one of the winners of a 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation. The prize to early-career scientists, announced Sept. 5, recognizes Fidkowski and his three co-recipients “for incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.”

Today local community leaders welcomed 窪蹋勛圖厙 to a coalition dedicated to supporting unsheltered families across Puget Sound. The University will host three Family Resource Exchanges that will take place on its campuses in Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma, expanding the coalitions ability to help unsheltered families in the region. This commitment comes shortly after the one-year anniversary of the first exchange in King County last summer.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to the University of California, San Diego, the 窪蹋勛圖厙 and the University of California, Berkeley to develop CloudBank, a suite of managed services to simplify public cloud access for computer science research and education.

In recent years, physicians at Seattle Children’s Hospital have worked with 窪蹋勛圖厙 faculty members in design to come up with a better, safer, more reliable way to order and use drugs on an operating room’s anesthesia cart.

Her sweeping new book about the history of Silicon Valley has 窪蹋勛圖厙 history professor Margaret O’Mara on a busy national book tour this summer. The book, “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America,” was published this month by Penguin Press and is receiving many positive reviews.

Six 窪蹋勛圖厙 professors are to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, according to an announcement July 2 from the White House. The award, also known as the PECASE, is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early-career scientists and engineers “who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.”