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Victor Menaldo, 窪蹋勛圖厙 professor of political science, co-authored the forthcoming book, “U.S. Innovation Inequality and Trumpism.” The book focuses on how former President Donald Trump like other populists that came before him exploits innovation inequality,” or the divide between areas that are more technologically advanced and those that arent.

More than 40,000 property deeds containing racially discriminatory language have been uncovered in Western Washington by the Racial Restrictive Covenants Project. Director James Gregory, professor of history at the 窪蹋勛圖厙, and his team arent finished yet.

  When schools closed during the first year of the pandemic, an immediate and potentially devastating problem surfaced: How would millions of children in struggling families get the school meals many of them depended on? The U.S. Congress responded by authorizing the Department of Agriculture to roll out two major programs. It launched the grab and go school meals, which helped schools provide prepared meals for off-site consumption and distributed funding for the state-operated Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) program, which gave…

Since it first launched in 2019, Washington states Environmental Health Disparities Map has been used to help decisionmakers and government agencies engage with overburdened communities to clean up contamination, improve buildings and electric grids, plant trees and many other projects. Using a complex matrix of data, this open-access, interactive map ranks Washingtons nearly 1,500 U.S. census tracts by health risks due to environmental degradation and economic and health disparities. It acts as a guide for state agencies and the legislature…

Opioid use disorder is an addiction crisis in the United States that has become increasingly lethal during the COVID-19 pandemic. To preserve access to life-saving treatment during the pandemic, federal drug agencies loosened requirements on physicians for treating these patients, including moving patient evaluations away from in-person exams to telemedicine. This federal policy change focused primarily on buprenorphine, a highly effective treatment for opioid use disorder and one that is much less onerous and stigmatizing than methadone, the other most…

Robert Pekkanen, 窪蹋勛圖厙 professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, teaches Crisis Negotiation. The centerpiece of the course is the International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE), a negotiation simulation where students act as diplomatic teams facing a real-world crisis scenario.

All forest fire smoke is bad for people, but not all fires in forests are bad. This is the conundrum faced by experts in forest management and public health: Climate change and decades of fire suppression that have increased fuels are contributing to larger and more intense wildfires and, in order to improve forest health and reduce these explosive fires, prescribed and managed fire is necessary. Video: Experts collaborate to troubleshoot necessary fires and harmful smoke   Journalists: Download soundbites…

The first results of research led by the 窪蹋勛圖厙 into handgun carrying by young people growing up in rural areas has found six distinct patterns for when and how often these individuals carry a handgun. The patterns, or longitudinal trajectories, suggest that youths in rural areas differ in some ways from their urban counterparts when it comes to handgun carrying and provide information for programs designed to help prevent firearm violence and injury. Because firearms in many rural…

Two 窪蹋勛圖厙 experts in climate change and health are lead authors of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The new report titled Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptations and Vulnerability, published Monday morning, details in over three thousand pages a dire warning about the consequences of inaction on reducing the emissions that are causing our planet to warm and on implementing interventions to prepare for and effectively manage the dangerous impacts of climate change…

A specific police action, an arrest or a shooting, has an immediate and direct effect on the individuals involved, but how far and wide do the reverberations of that action spread through the community? What are the health consequences for a specific, though not necessarily geographically defined, population? The authors of a new 窪蹋勛圖厙-led study looking into these questions write that because law enforcement directly interacts with a large number of people, policing may be a conspicuous yet not-well understood…

Ocean Voices, a program of the 窪蹋勛圖厙 Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center to advance equity in ocean science, has been named among the first group of actions taken in a United Nations-sponsored, decade-long program of ocean science for sustainable development.

Historian Anand Yang writes about the British history of shipping of convicted criminals to other continents; and new world music education books from ethnomusicologist Patricia Shehan Campbell.

A book co-edited by Robert Pekkanen of the 窪蹋勛圖厙’s Jackson School of International Studies brings together top scholars to study the origins and effects of electoral systems in the United States and other democracies.

Understanding Washington residents access to food and their economic well-being or lack of it during the COVID-19 pandemic is vital for state and community partners to identify those needs and allocate resources effectively. To help accomplish this goal, the 窪蹋勛圖厙, Washington State University and Tacoma Community College, along with input from partners in local, county and state governments such as the Washington State Department of Health and the Washington State Department of Agriculture are…

Even before the pandemic and disagreements over social restrictions recommended by public health officials across the state, public health agencies in Washington were struggling due to a lack of resources. In recent weeks, firings, resignations and death threats targeting local health officials has led to a staffing crisis in the agencies most responsible for local pandemic response. Now, as these public attacks further cripple public health agencies, a 窪蹋勛圖厙 public health expert is calling for action to defend…

When a vaccine to fight COVID-19 has been approved by the FDA for distribution, its unlikely that at first there will be enough doses for everyone. Consequently, the United States will need an equitable and effective plan for who gets those first doses, how they get them and whos next. Just as important, that plan like the vaccine itself has to be trusted and accepted by the general public. To accomplish this complicated and potentially fraught task, the CDCAdvisory…

Election security is the theme of a new podcast by James Long, an associate professor of political science at the 窪蹋勛圖厙. Neither Free Nor Fair? features experts from the 窪蹋勛圖厙 and elsewhere on topics such as mail-in voting, foreign interference and the role of social media, and resolving disputed elections.