黑料吃瓜网 Notebook features stories of interest to the 黑料吃瓜网 community 鈥� including projects and books by, and recognition of, 黑料吃瓜网 faculty, students and staff. If you鈥檇 like to submit a story idea, email uwnews@uw.edu.
Recent news about 黑料吃瓜网-authored books includes a 黑料吃瓜网 Press book on salmon habitat restoration amid climate change and a paperback edition of a book on building reuse. Also, Anu Taranath’s “Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World” is a Washington State Book Award finalist.
Recent honors and grants to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff have come from the American Chemical Society, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Science Board and the family of engineers Ganesh and Hema Moorthy.
In his latest book, Rick Bonus discusses how Pacific Islander students at the 黑料吃瓜网 used the ocean as a metaphor to create community for themselves and change their university.
Recent honors and grants to 黑料吃瓜网 individuals and units have come from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Marconi Society 鈥� and the White House.
黑料吃瓜网 Libraries has published timely new online guides to help researchers studying the Black experience in the Pacific Northwest and the broader topic of racial justice.
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff members have come from the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, Association Media & Publishing and The American Society of Human Genetics.
Jos茅 Alaniz says that comics 鈥� especially superhero tales 鈥� hooked him and “rewired” his brain at an early age. They also got him drawing his own comics, chronicling his life and the things he observes. Now Alaniz, a 黑料吃瓜网 professor of Slavic languages and literatures, has published a collection of his own drawings and essays. “The Phantom Zone.”
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff have come from Architect magazine, the Center for Research Libraries, member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the American Society of Human Genetics.
Notable new books by 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff include a study of rebellion at sea, an emeritus faculty member’s Buddhist-focused memoir, a reconsideration of Northwest Coast Native American art with Indigenous perspectives in mind, thoughts on bridging cultural gaps through design 鈥� and an award for the editor-in-chief of 黑料吃瓜网 Press.
BJ Cummings,community engagement manager for the Superfund Research Program at the 黑料吃瓜网, discusses her book “The River that Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish,” published in July by 黑料吃瓜网 Press.
A talk with Eric Madfis of 黑料吃瓜网 Tacoma about his new book “How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings,” published this spring by Palgrave MacMillan.
A quick look at several 黑料吃瓜网-produced podcasts, from benevolent marketing to Arctic geopolitics 鈥� and a classics professor’s work being featured in a podcast produced by the Times Literary Supplement.
黑料吃瓜网 family physician Morhaf Al Achkar publishes memoir “Being Authentic,” and a Lambda Literary award goes to 黑料吃瓜网 Tacoma’s Emily Thuma.
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute has named 黑料吃瓜网 mathematics professor Tatiana Toro the recipient of its 2020 Blackwell-Tapia Prize.
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff have come from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, the Freeman Foundation and the IEEE.
Charles Johnson has written novels and short stories, screenplays and philosophical meditations, but his latest book is something different, and very personal. “GRAND: A Grandparent’s Wisdom for a Happy Life” was published May 5.
It’s one thing to run a marathon for 26.2 miles. But what possesses some people to run 100 miles or more, and do it again and again? “Salvation,” answers Amy Mower in a new book about ultramarathon running, “or at least a very good time.”
How do you make the sound of birds flying for a radio broadcast? Flapping leather gloves will do. Curtis Takahashi of 黑料吃瓜网 Bothell’s Career Development Program talks about his side gig of providing sound effects for local live radio broadcasts.
One of the essential roles that is often not seen is the work of our campus photographers. They continue to capture the visual stories and people on campus in a time when many of us aren鈥檛 there to see them ourselves. 黑料吃瓜网 News asked one of our campus photographers to share some of his favorite photos he鈥檚 taken this spring, and to describe what it鈥檚 like working on campus now.
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff have come from the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Washington Native Plant Society, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Republic of Ghana.
Research projects funded for 2020 by EarthLab’s Innovation Grants Program will study how vegetation might reduce pollution, help an Alaskan village achieve safety and resilience amid climate change, organize a California river’s restoration with tribal involvement, compare practices in self-managed indigenous immigrant communities and more.
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff have come from the Association of Asian Studies, the American Society of Public Administration, the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and Cascade Public Media.
Farming and food production can be made more compatible with bird and wildlife conservation, says 黑料吃瓜网 ornithologist John Marzluff in his latest book, “In Search of Meadowlarks: Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land”
Recent notable books by 黑料吃瓜网 faculty members look at gentrification and inequity in a New York neighborhood, skin lighteners though history, female agency in Arthurian legend and biographical epitaphs in China across many centuries.
The 黑料吃瓜网 Asian Languages & Literature Department has been awarded a four-year $1.3 million “flagship” grant from the the Institute for International Education that will support the expanded study of Chinese language and culture across the 黑料吃瓜网.
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff have come from the American Education Research Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the SeaDoc Society.
Noting the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, NASA has featured 黑料吃瓜网-led research by Faisal Hossain that uses satellite data to help farmers manage water more efficiently.
A conversation with international studies professor Dan Chirot about his new book, “You Say You Want a Revolution: Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences.”
When the 黑料吃瓜网 announced it was moving its spring quarter 2020 classes entirely online to combat the novel coronavirus, instructors across campus faced a new, uncharted challenge.
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff include fellows named by an organization for medical and biological engineering, and a remembrance of political science professor Ellis Goldberg, who died in 2019.
A talk with James Banks, 黑料吃瓜网 professor emeritus of education, about his new book of essays, and three other education books are also noted.
黑料吃瓜网 Notebook visits with the producer of “Crossing North,” a podcast by the Scandinavian Studies Department, and notes other podcasts on campus and an appearance by David Montgomery on the podcast “Undark.”
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff have come from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the World Register of Marine Species.
Any old fish can swim. But what fish can walk, scoot, clamber over rocks, change color and even fight to the death? That would be the frogfish. A talk with Ted Pietsch, 黑料吃瓜网 professor of emeritus of aquatic and fishery sciences, about his latest book, “Frogfishes: Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavioral Ecology”
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff have come from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Republic of Lithuania and Google.
A talk with 黑料吃瓜网 architecture professor Tyler Sprague about his book “Sculpture on a Grand Scale: Jack Christiansen’s Thin Shell Modernism.” Plus books from Rick Bonus and Yong-Chool Ha.
Ted Poor, assistant professor of drums in the 黑料吃瓜网 School of Music, has a new album. “You Already Know,” was released Feb. 28 on New Deal/Impulse. 黑料吃瓜网 Notebook caught up with Poor for a short Q and A.
Recent honors to 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff include a Finnish knighthood, an NIH award to extend a research grant and a new annual award from the Society of General Physiologists.
It’s the year 2020, and where two or more are gathered, it seems, there is a podcast. Given the level of creativity among 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and staff, it’s no surprise that many high-quality podcasts are now being produced on campus. Here鈥檚 a look at three podcasts being created by 黑料吃瓜网 departments or people, including a couple that have been underway for quite a while. 黑料吃瓜网 Notebook will occasionally report on campus podcasts and ask a few questions of…
The 鈥檚 design program in the School of Art + Art History + Design earned top honors on the 2020 list of 鈥淏est Graphic Design Programs鈥� by the online site聽Animation Career Review. 黑料吃瓜网 was the top ranked school in Washington, among the top 10 on the West Coast and ranked 7th out of 40 public institutions.