The iconic cherry trees in the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Quad will likely reach peak bloom the third week of March, right in line with most years.
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Recess, for most children, is synonymous with freedom. A break from class that has nothing to do with learning and everything to do with play. For children with autism, the playground can be an isolating experience. The spontaneous soccer games, roving packs of friends and virtual buffet of activities can be chaotic, frustrating and confusing. Recess is not a time to join, but to retreat. Or is it? A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-led research team found that children with autism communicate…
What geopolitical challenges is global climate change creating for the national security of the United States and throughout the world? The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Jackson School of International Studies will host a public panel discussion of these issues on March 6, featuring Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
Fifteen scholars from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø were awarded Fulbright grants for 2018-2019 — among the leading research schools in the country and more than any other institution in the state. A list was published earlier this month in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Nick Bond, Washington’s state climatologist, comments on the unusual weather in Western Washington.
Last year, local station KIRO-TV donated thousands of hours of old news videotapes of its news broadcasts from the 1970s through about the year 2000 — about 15,000 videotapes in all — to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Libraries.
Exposure to nature, even through a brief gardening activity, can improve well-being among women in prison, a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma-led study finds.
The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, in the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Jackson School of International Studies, was well represented at the 50th annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies Dec. 16-18 in Boston.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has been recognized as one of the most sustainable higher education institutions in North America, according to the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System.
A team of ocean robots developed at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is the first group of self-guided ocean instruments to travel under an ice sheet and come back to report long-term observations.
Boeing has awarded $300,000 to Forefront Suicide Prevention and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma for work with veterans. Forefront, at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Social Work, received $205,000 to expand veteran-specific outreach, and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøT received $95,000 for career services for veterans.
Three teams led by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers — Scott Dunham, Hugh Hillhouse and Devin MacKenzie — have received competitive awards totaling more than $2.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office for projects that will advance research and development in photovoltaic materials, which are an essential component of solar cells and impact the amount of sunlight that is converted into electricity.
A new study has found that since the early 1980s, a pattern of ocean temperatures and atmospheric circulation has offset most of the impact of warming on the West’s mountain snowpack.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is part of an international program that has revolutionized ocean measurements. This fall, the program made its 2 millionth measurement, reporting temperature and salinity in the top mile of the world’s oceans.
The Labor Archives of Washington, housed in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Libraries, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Seattle General Strike with a series of events in coming weeks, as well as a new library exhibit on campus.
If Washington state were to establish a public bank, what type of bank might work best? One that can provide targeted products and services to local governments across the state, says a new report by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers from the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.
As part of a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-led project, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced a stunningly detailed portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, displaying a full spiral face aglow with the light of nearly 25 million individually resolved stars.
Bottle feeding infants is associated with left-handedness, according to a new study from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. The study found that the prevalence of left-handedness is lower among breastfed infants as compared to bottle-fed infants. This finding was identified in about 60,000 mother-infant pairs and accounted for known risk factors for handedness.
Husky football players, including Myles Gaskin and JoJo McIntosh, mentor teens each week as part of a program hosted by the Yesler Community Center in Seattle.
New analysis shows that odd winds, not warming, caused the unusual patch of open water north of Greenland last February.
The American Talent Initiative, a nationwide alliance comprising the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and more than 100 other colleges and universities, has made significant progress in improving opportunities for low- and moderate-income students, according to a new report.
A small study about a workshop to bring together students of different political persuasions found that workshop participants were able to better understand their fellow students as individuals, but their attitudes about opposing beliefs, in general, did not change.
The following is a statement from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Ana Mari Cauce in response to Gov. Jay Inslee’s proposed 2019-2021 biennial budget
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø glaciologist Ben Smith shared a first look at the NASA ICESat-2 satellite’s view of Greenland and Antarctic glaciers at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø team created a mechanical eye under the ocean’s surface that could live near renewable-energy sites and use a series of sensors to watch nearby animals. On Dec. 13, the researchers put the newest version of the AMP into the waters of Seattle’s Portage Bay for two weeks of preliminary testing before a more thorough analysis is conducted in Sequim, Washington.
A new species of whale discovered in 33-million-year-old Oregon rock has been named for Elizabeth Nesbitt, a curator at the Burke Museum and faculty member in the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences.
Russell Callender began as Washington Sea Grant’s new director this fall, and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News sat down with him recently to learn more about what he hopes to bring to the organization.
Kate Simonen, architect, engineer and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø associate professor of architecture, discusses recent work by her and the Carbon Leadership Forum toward reducing embodied carbon in construction materials.
Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers, Terrance Kavanagh and Jay Shendure, are among the 416 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, announced in November.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers contributed to the Fourth National Climate Assessment that considers impacts, risks and adaptation across the United States.
Three researchers from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Department of Psychology say existing practices overlook the importance of culture, and suggest how individuals and institutions can be more inclusive.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers in the Center for Neurotechnology are studying how brain-computer interfaces affect whether patients feel they are in charge of their own actions.
The abundance of personal smartphones in southern African countries got ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professor Sarah Gimbel thinking: What if these phones were used by front-line health workers — namely nurses — to collect and analyze data on patients living with HIV or AIDS to improve their care?
A timely new ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø political science class asks: How do we separate fact from fiction these days? How do we know what is true?
Here in what is called the Anthropocene era, humans and our urban environments appear to be driving accelerated evolutionary change in plants, animals, fungi, viruses and more — changes that could affect key ecosystem functions and thus human well-being. These interactions between evolution and ecology are called “eco-evolutionary feedback.” The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $500,000 grant to a multi-institution research network team headed by Marina Alberti, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professor of urban design and planning, to advance…
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has won a Gold Bicycle Friendly University award from the League of American Bicyclists in recognition of its achievements in promoting safe, accessible bicycling on campus.
In a paper published Oct. 8 in the journal Nano Letters, a team from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan announced that it has constructed functional metalenses that are one-tenth to one-half the thickness of the wavelengths of light that they focus. Their metalenses, which were constructed out of layered 2D materials, were as thin as 190 nanometers — less than 1/100,000ths of an inch thick.
When it comes to supporting and promoting the growth of minority businesses, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has a long track record – 27 years to be exact. This milestone represents the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s long-standing relationship with the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council (MSDC).
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has distributed news to the campus community — in one form or another — since 1975. Such communication began as a way to streamline how faculty, staff and students received important administrative news and was initially published as a pamphlet of memos. In 1983, it evolved into University Week, a weekly printed newspaper with research news and feature stories. The newspaper became an online-only publication in 2008, and the first ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Today email newsletter was sent…
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø oceanographer Jody Deming is a leader of a new, interdisciplinary effort that addresses the theme of “ocean memory.”