ϳԹ

Skip to content

News releases

Whale Safe — an online tool launched Sept. 17 by scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the ϳԹ and other partner institutions — allows users to detect and better protect these endangered animals in the Santa Barbara Channel. It is a mapping and analysis tool to help prevent ships from running into whales.

Researchers at the ϳԹ, Portland State University and the University of Oregon have shown that deep-seated landslides in the central Oregon Coast Range are triggered mostly by rainfall, not by large offshore earthquakes. The open-access paper was published Sept. 16 in Science Advances. “Geomorphologists have long understood the importance of rainfall in triggering landslides, and our study is simply driving home just how important it is,” said first author Sean LaHusen, who did the work as part of…

New research shows that a wide variety of marine animals — from vertebrates to crustaceans to mollusks — already inhabit the maximum range of breathable ocean that their physiology will allow. The findings provide a warning about climate change: Since warmer waters will harbor less oxygen, some stretches of ocean that are breathable today for a given species may not be in the future.

Though Bill Gates, Sr., may have graduated from the ϳԹ nearly 70 years ago, in many ways he never really left.

Gates was a standout Husky — as a Regent for 15 years, leader of ground breaking philanthropic campaigns and a recipient of numerous accolades, including the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus Award in 2013. He loved Husky football and cheered on from Husky Stadium, Row K, Seat 32.

Gates died Monday. He was 94.

Four ϳԹ professors were among the winners of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize, which recognizes groundbreaking achievements in the life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics.

David Baker, a professor in the ϳԹ School of Medicine’s department of biochemistry, won the prize for life sciences, while a team of ϳԹ physics professors, including Eric Adelberger, Jens Gundlach and Blayne Heckel, earned the prize for fundamental physics.

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the ϳԹ, and the greater community, together online.  Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All ϳԹ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via ϳԹ-IT.  Re/frame: Tell Me a Tale/Show Me a Story September 17, 12:00 – 1:00 PM, 6:30 – 7:30 PM | Online via Zoom Join Ann Poulson, the…

The future of our health and the health of the communities we live in relies, in many ways, on students in the health sciences. The education and experiences that future doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, social workers and public health experts receive will to a large degree shape how those professionals work and work together when solving problems affecting our health. And while the ϳԹ’s highly ranked health sciences schools have long focused on interdisciplinary education and training students…

ϳԹ scientists report evidence of a hibernation-like state in Lystrosaurus, an animal that lived in Antarctica during the Early Triassic, some 250 million years ago. The fossils are the oldest evidence of a hibernation-like state in a vertebrate, and indicate that torpor — a general term for hibernation and similar states in which animals temporarily lower their metabolic rate to get through a tough season — arose in vertebrates even before mammals and dinosaurs evolved.

A new study led by researchers at the ϳԹ and the University of California, Davis, finds that the success rate of summiting Mount Everest has doubled in the last three decades, even though the number of climbers has greatly increased, crowding the narrow route through the dangerous “death zone” near the summit. However, the death rate for climbers has hovered unchanged at around 1% since 1990.

New research by the University of Minnesota and the ϳԹ finds that every six additional ICU beds or seven additional non-ICU beds filled by COVID-19 patients leads to one additional COVID-19 death over the following week. “A spike in hospitalization naturally leads to more deaths, but these deaths may not only come from those who are hospitalized, but also from those who should have been hospitalized but were not,” said co-author Anirban Basu, a ϳԹ professor of health…

For nearly 50 years, a statistical omission tantamount to data falsification sat undiscovered in a critical study at the heart of regulating one of the most controversial and widely used pesticides in America. Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide created in the late 1960s by the Dow Chemical Co., has been linked to serious health problems, especially in children. It has been the subject of many lawsuits and banned in Europe and California. The EPA itself nearly banned the chemical, but in 2017 the…

An international group of scientists has laid out an ambitious global conservation plan for parasites. A related paper led by the ϳԹ found that responses of parasites to environmental change are likely to be complex, and that a changing world probably will see both outbreaks of some parasites and a total loss of other parasite species.

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the ϳԹ, and the greater community, together online.  Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All ϳԹ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via ϳԹ-IT.  Astronomer Emily Levesque: The Last Stargazers Book Launch  August 3, 7:00-8:30 PM | Online ϳԹ professor Emily Levesque discusses her new books at (online)…

A new study led by the ϳԹ and the University of Leeds uses satellite data over the Southern Hemisphere to understand the makeup of global clouds since the Industrial Revolution. This research tackles one of the largest uncertainties in today’s climate models — the long-term effect of tiny atmospheric particles on climate change.

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the ϳԹ, and the greater community, together online.  Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All ϳԹ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via ϳԹ-IT.  Virtual Author Event: BJ Cummings, Cecile Hansen And Lynda Mapes Discuss The River That Made Seattle July 27, 7:00-8:00 PM | Online In this event sponsored…

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the ϳԹ, and the greater community, together online.  Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All ϳԹ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via ϳԹ-IT.  Burke Museum Online Mini-Exhibits: Uncovering Pacific Past View at your leisure | Online Archaeology can help us better understand our world, but it is also impactful…

Chris Petersen, former head football coach at the ϳԹ and Boise State University, has been appointed as the Edward V. Fritzky Endowed Chair in Leadership at the ϳԹ Foster School of Business for the 2020-2021 school year, officials announced today. Established in 2002, this prestigious faculty position is designed to bring distinguished leaders to campus to share their expertise with faculty and students.

Nine ϳԹ subjects ranked in the top 10 and the ϳԹ School of Oceanography held its position as No. 1 in the world on the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects list for 2020. The ranking, released June 29,  was conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the ϳԹ, and the greater community, together online.  Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All ϳԹ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via ϳԹ-IT.  Seattle Art Fair Online: New Media Artworks and Their Future Lives July 14, 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Online This Seattle Art Fair panel will explore…

The ϳԹ and The Nippon Foundation today announced the launch of the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, an interdisciplinary research group at the ϳԹ that studies changes, responses and solutions to societal issues that emerge in relationship with the oceans. The Center will bring uncompromised, critical voices to policy and public conversations to enable research and studies equaling $32.5 million spread over 10 years.