“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.
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How much liability do website owners and other online service providers have for content posted by other people? If someone posts content on your website that is defamatory, constitutes hate speech, disseminates child pornography or invades someone鈥檚 privacy, are you liable? The answers to such questions can be murky in developing countries. And as internet use expands around the globe, so does the potential liability for the owners of websites, search engines, social media sites and other online platforms, who…
黑料吃瓜网 President Ana Mari Cauce: 鈥淐ongratulations to the Friends of 88.5 on their agreement with Pacific Lutheran University to purchase KPLU, and on the unprecedented fundraising effort that made it possible.聽We are delighted they were able to make it happen.鈥� KUOW General Manager Caryn Mathes: 鈥淭he generosity of KPLU鈥檚 listeners is a testament both to the excellence of the station鈥檚 programming and to the deep affection that Puget Sound listeners hold for public radio. 鈥淭hrough the Northwest News Network,…
黑料吃瓜网 computer scientists have launched the “MegaFace Challenge,” the world’s first competition aimed at evaluating and improving the performance of face recognition algorithms at the million person scale.
A new study evaluates the performance of a seasonal forecast, developed by researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网 and NOAA, that predicts conditions over the coming months in the Pacific Northwest marine environment.
The outsourcing of workers at Portland International Airport has increased in recent years while those workers serve ever-more passengers and their wages remain low, according to a recent report from the 黑料吃瓜网’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.
An international team led by researchers at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) based at the 黑料吃瓜网 is one of three finalists in a race to produce an implantable wireless device that can assess, stimulate and block the activity of nerves that control organs.
The R/V Thomas G. Thompson, the 274-foot-long research vessel operated by the 黑料吃瓜网, has spent 25 years carrying researchers, students and teachers out to sea. The ship has collected material from the bottom of the deepest ocean trenches and braved storms near Antarctica. This week, the ship will begin a yearlong stay in protected waters and dry dock near Seattle’s Harbor Island for a complete overhaul of its propulsion system, navigation and many core engineering systems. The $34.5…
Public-private partnerships can be important financing tools, but public officials overseeing them must understand the risks well, says the Evans School’s Justin Marlowe, author of a multivolume Guide to Financial Literacy.
The world won鈥檛 be able to fish its way to feeding 10 billion people by midcentury, but a shift in management practices could save hundreds of millions of fish-dependent poor from malnutrition, according to a new analysis by researchers at Harvard, the 黑料吃瓜网 and other universities.
Researchers have discovered a handful of “bright spots” among the world鈥檚 embattled coral reefs, offering the promise of a radical new approach to conservation.
Rock from a common type of volcano shows surprising evidence of the descending tectonic plate. Analyses show that magnesium atoms are somehow drawn out of the crust, deep below the surface.
A new study has found that only 2 percent of the eastern U.S. provides the kind of climate connectivity required by species that will likely need to migrate, compared to 51 percent of the western U.S.
A new study by researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网 shows that the final grades that college students received in a second-language class were predicted by a combination of genetic and brain factors.
The 黑料吃瓜网 recognized and honored faculty, staff, students and alumni for their passion and dedication to the 黑料吃瓜网, the local community, the state and the world. The 46th-annual Awards of Excellence ceremony took place at Meany Hall on Thursday, June 9, 2016.
The Ecological Society of America has named 黑料吃瓜网 professor Jerry Franklin its “Eminent Ecologist” of 2016. The award, considered the organization’s most prestigious accolade, honors a senior ecologist who has made significant, long-standing contributions to the field of ecology.
More than 5,600 graduates, along with 40,000-plus family members, friends, faculty and other observers, are expected to attend the聽141st聽黑料吃瓜网 commencement ceremonies聽June 11 at Husky Stadium. 黑料吃瓜网 President Ana Mari Cauce will preside as more than 12,500 degrees are conferred, including more than 7,700 bachelor鈥檚 degrees, more than 3,500 master鈥檚 degrees, more than 500 professional degrees, 11 educational specialist degrees and more than 740 doctoral degrees. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, a 1978 graduate of the 黑料吃瓜网…
Data is now streaming from the deep sea, thanks to an observatory installed in this region by the 黑料吃瓜网 as part of a larger National Science Foundation initiative to usher in a new age of oceanographic research.
The authors of a Science perspective piece discuss the growing tension between an arguably necessary role urban areas play in society and the numbing, even debilitating, aspects of cities that disconnect humans from the natural world.
City and state officials, entrepreneurs, attorneys and others will come together June 14 for a daylong conference at the 黑料吃瓜网 on the future of marijuana policy in the state. The event, co-hosted by the Cannabis Law and Policy Project and 黑料吃瓜网 Professional & Continuing Education, will be held at the 黑料吃瓜网 School of Law and feature 30-plus speakers. The day aims to provide a comprehensive look at current and future regulations governing the retail and medical marijuana industries…
Gov. Jay Inslee named聽Austin Wright-Pettibone as the next student member of the 黑料吃瓜网 Board of Regents for the 2016-17 school year. Wright-Pettibone, a Kirkland native, is an undergraduate studying chemical engineering and becomes the first undergraduate since 2008 to be selected as the 黑料吃瓜网’s student regent. He graduated from Inglemoor High School in 2012.聽In 2015, through his role as director of AS黑料吃瓜网’s聽office of government relations,聽he lobbied state lawmakers in Olympia to lower Washington’s four-year college tuition. 鈥淎ustin has…
A team led by 黑料吃瓜网 engineers has developed a new tool that could aid in the quest for better batteries and fuel cells. Although battery technology has come a long way since Alessandro Volta first stacked metal discs in a 鈥渧oltaic pile鈥� to generate electricity, major improvements are still needed to meet the energy challenges of the future, such as powering electric cars and storing renewable energy cheaply and efficiently. The key likely lies in the nanoscale, said…
The waters surrounding Antarctica may be one of the last places on Earth to experience human-driven climate change, because of its unique ocean currents.
Electrical energy fuels our modern lives, from the computer screen that keeps us up after sunset to the coffee maker that greets us at sunrise. But the electricity underlying our 21st century world, by and large, is generated at a cost 鈥� through the unsustainable expenditure of fossil fuels. For decades this demand for cheap, fast and non-renewable electricity has promoted pollution and global warming. The key to reversing this downward spiral is deleting the “non” in “non-renewable electricity.” In…
黑料吃瓜网 President Ana Mari Cauce announced Tuesday that after a four-month national search, Jennifer Cohen, senior associate athletic director at the 黑料吃瓜网, who has been serving as the interim athletic director since January, has been named the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 new athletic director, effective June 1. 鈥淚 am very pleased to announce Jen鈥檚 appointment,鈥� said Cauce. 鈥淪he has all the skills and energy to provide exceptional leadership for Husky athletics. Her years of experience leading its fundraising program, along with…
Statisticians at the 黑料吃瓜网 have developed the first model for projecting population that factors in the vagaries of migration, a slippery issue that has bedeviled demographers for decades. Their work, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also provides population projections for all countries worldwide 鈥� and challenges the existing predictions for some, particularly the United States and Germany. 鈥淚t turns out that for quite a few countries, migration is the single…
Children who suffer traumatic brain injuries can face a difficult road to recovery, requiring services such as physical therapy and mental health treatment for months or years to get their young lives back on track. When those children come from low-income households with limited English proficiency, there can be significant barriers in getting them the care they need. A recent 黑料吃瓜网 study found that less than 20 percent of rehabilitation providers in the state accepted Medicaid and also…
In a new study, scientists found that selectively fishing for lingcod in protected areas actually avoided hampering the recovery of other fish, including rockfish species listed as overfished.
黑料吃瓜网 President Ana Mari Cauce today named Jerry Baldasty provost and executive vice president, following a 14-month term as interim provost. The appointment is to a three-year term, effective June 1, 2016, subject to approval by the Board of Regents. 鈥淛erry鈥檚 excellence as a scholar and teacher, as well as a seasoned administrative leader, makes him the ideal person to serve as 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 chief academic and budgetary officer,鈥� said Cauce. 鈥淭he Provost oversees the challenging and crucial work…
A 黑料吃瓜网 team has demonstrated that poplar trees growing in rocky, inhospitable terrain harbor bacteria within them that could provide valuable nutrients to help the plant grow.
黑料吃瓜网 President Ana Mari Cauce and Interim Provost Jerry Baldasty announced today the selection of Rickey L. Hall as the new vice president for the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity and Chief Diversity Officer, effective Aug. 1, 2016.
In a White House ceremony May 19, President Barack Obama presented the National Medal of Science to Mary-Claire King, 黑料吃瓜网 professor of genome sciences and medicine. The award, the nation’s highest recognition for scientific achievement, honors King’s more than 40 years dedicated to research in evolution and the genetics of human disease, as well as to teaching and outreach endeavors that have supported human rights efforts on six continents and reunited families.
From self-driving vehicles to social robots, artificial intelligence is evolving at a rapid pace, creating vast opportunities as well as complex challenges. Recognizing that, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is co-hosting four public workshops on artificial intelligence 鈥� the first of them May 24 at the 黑料吃瓜网. Subsequent events will take place in Washington, D.C.; in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and in New York City. Put on by the 黑料吃瓜网 School of Law and the 黑料吃瓜网…
Poet and author Alice Fulton will give the 53rd annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. Friday, May 27, in Room 130 of Kane Hall, also known as the Roethke Auditorium. The event is free and the public is invited.
A new study co-authored by a 黑料吃瓜网 mechanical engineer demonstrates how flying insect-sized robots can land and stick to surfaces, which conserves energy and extends flight times.
Heavier snowfall over Antarctica was supposed to be one of the few brakes on sea-level rise in a warming world. But that prediction is not reliable, says a new study of Antarctic snowfall over the past 31,000 years.
黑料吃瓜网 mechanical engineers have for the first time analyzed interactions between microscale granular crystals 鈥� a first step in creating novel materials that could be used for impact mitigation, signal processing, disease diagnosis, or even making more controllable solid rocket propellants.
The jelly found in the electrosensory organs of sharks, skates and rays is a remarkable proton-conducting material, with the highest proton conductivity ever reported for a biological material, 黑料吃瓜网 researchers have found.
In traditional light-harvesting methods, energy from one photon only excites one electron or none depending on the absorber’s energy gap, transferring just a small portion of light energy into electricity. The remaining energy is lost as heat. But in a paper released May 13 in Science Advances, Wu, 黑料吃瓜网 associate professor Xiaodong Xu and colleagues at four other institutions describe one promising approach to coax photons into stimulating multiple electrons. Their method exploits some surprising quantum-level interactions to give one photon multiple potential electron partners.
The amount of marijuana allowed to be grown by state-licensed producers in Washington is enough to satisfy both the medical and recreational marijuana markets, a 黑料吃瓜网 study released today finds. The state Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) tasked the 黑料吃瓜网-based Cannabis Law and Policy Project (CLPP) with calculating the 鈥済row canopy,鈥� or square footage, required to supply the state鈥檚 medical marijuana market as it becomes folded into the state鈥檚 retail system, as required by the 2015 Cannabis Patient…