December 21, 2017
Now serving its sixth cohort of students, the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship has helped more than 8,400 students attend the state鈥檚 universities and colleges. The 黑料吃瓜网 has the largest number of scholarship recipients 鈥� 1,679 across all three campuses 鈥� and has seen more than 1,300 scholars graduate.
For African-American students, data, alongside societal attitudes and stereotypes, often present a negative picture: a wide academic achievement gap separating them from their white peers. Higher rates of discipline and absenteeism. Discrimination by other students, teachers and the larger community. And just last summer, a study indicated that black girls, from an early age, are perceived as more aggressive and sexual 鈥� less innocent 鈥� than white girls. But what if, a 黑料吃瓜网 education professor reasoned,…
December 20, 2017
In all corners of the 黑料吃瓜网, staff, faculty and students are working hard to improve the lives of people around the world. This year undoubtedly embodied that passion and drive to serve the public good.
December 19, 2017
Here鈥檚 a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by 黑料吃瓜网 talents in the last year or so 鈥� and a reminder of some perennial favorites.
December 18, 2017
A new partnership between the 黑料吃瓜网 and Paul G. Allen Philanthropies will use a network of robots to observe conditions beneath a floating Antarctic ice shelf.
Recognizing that many large dams are here to stay, a 黑料吃瓜网 team is investigating an emerging solution to help achieve freshwater conservation goals by re-envisioning the ways in which water is released by dams.
December 14, 2017
Researchers from the 黑料吃瓜网, Chapman University and University of Guelph have published new research showing how hagfishes survive an initial attack from predators before they release large volumes of slime to defend themselves.
December 13, 2017
A new NSF-funded project will use findings in the Mekong River basin as an example of how three critical issues 鈥� feeding people, generating energy and maintaining functioning ecosystems 鈥� can be addressed thoughtfully and progressively in the developing world.
The 黑料吃瓜网 celebrated two major fundraising and construction milestones on Wednesday for the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering, which will allow the 黑料吃瓜网 to double its annual computer science and engineering degree production.
December 11, 2017
New faculty member Shuyi Chen answers some questions about hurricane science, hurricane forecasting and the 2017 storm season.
Bloomberg News columnist Noah Smith has listed a paper by 黑料吃瓜网 economist Fabio Ghironi as among “must-read” papers and books on economics in the year 2017.
December 7, 2017
黑料吃瓜网 is among the first schools to announce public commitments through the American Talent Initiative. The 黑料吃瓜网 aims to graduate an additional 125 low- to low-middle-income students per cohort by 2025.
The Anthropocene epoch 鈥� the proposed name for this time of significant human effect on the planet and its systems 鈥� represents a new context in which to study literature. A new book of essays co-edited by Jesse Oak Taylor, 黑料吃瓜网 associate professor of English, argues that literary studies, in turn, also can help us better understand the Anthropocene.
The 黑料吃瓜网, Arizona State University and other collaborators have proposed a method in the Dec. 8 issue of Science that allows hydroelectric dam operators to generate power in ways that protect 鈥� and possibly improve 鈥� food supplies and businesses throughout the Mekong river basin in Southeast Asia.
December 6, 2017
Alongside the political polarization that has permeated seemingly every issue in American life, there is a similar dichotomy in religion.On one side are those who suggest religion is dying, that’s it’s irrelevant, a force for ill and oppression, explains 黑料吃瓜网 sociology professor Steve Pfaff. On the other are those who say religion is under attack, that the quest for freedom and diversity has sullied the culture and undermined the integrity of faith. And into this debate Pfaff decided…
December 5, 2017
Scientists at the 黑料吃瓜网 show for the first time that the complex distribution of molecules within a membrane of a living yeast cell arises through demixing.
The 黑料吃瓜网 has launched a new institute aimed at accelerating research at the nanoscale: the Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems, or NanoES. The institute will pursue impactful advancements in a variety of disciplines 鈥� including energy, materials science, computation and medicine. Yet these advancements will be at a technological scale a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.
An interdisciplinary team is using a covert sound-based approach, worthy of an avian CSI, to study the link between crows’ calls and their behavior.
黑料吃瓜网 engineers have developed the first 3-D printed plastic objects that can connect to other devices via WiFi without using any electronics, including a laundry bottle that can detect when soap is running low and automatically order more.
December 3, 2017
Kim Nasmyth, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Oxford and former postdoctoral researcher at the 黑料吃瓜网, is one of five recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Nasmyth and other prize recipients were honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation at a ceremony December 3 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
December 1, 2017
Three 黑料吃瓜网 astrobiologists will discuss their research and introduce the new 3-D IMAX movie “The Search for Life in Space” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, in the PACCAR Theater of the Pacific Science Center.
November 30, 2017
Ana G贸mez-Bravo created a class about Spanish food and culture a few years ago as a way to teach the language, but found no appropriate textbook for the material 鈥� so she wrote one herself. Her book “Comida y cultura en el mundo hisp谩nico” 鈥� “Food and Culture in the Hispanic World” 鈥� was published in October by Equinox Publishing.
A cosmic photobomb found as a background object in images of the nearby Andromeda galaxy has revealed what could be the most tightly coupled pair of supermassive black holes ever seen.
The labor of India’s lower castes 鈥� in areas such as agriculture, transportation, construction and the sex trade 鈥� occupies about 90 percent of the country’s workforce. Many of these urban jobs draw workers from rural villages, people who struggle to make a living not only for themselves, but also for the relatives they’ve left behind. But what of the day-to-day experiences, the families, the hopes and goals of these millions of laborers? A workshop Dec. 1 and 2 at…
November 29, 2017
Project Name:聽Husky Stadium Transportation Management Plan Proponent:聽黑料吃瓜网 – Seattle Campus Description of Proposal: The University is updating the Husky Stadium Transportation Management Plan (TMP). The University’s goal is to prepare a TMP that accommodates a maximum crowd of 70,000 people; modifies mode goals and operational logistics for hosting smaller聽 events than football games (e.g. 黑料吃瓜网 Commencement, other athletic events, etc.); maximizing alternatives modes of transportation to reach stadium events; allows flexibility to incorporate future development in transit options…
The 黑料吃瓜网 welcomed the most diverse class of new students across all three campuses, and the largest number of Washington residents in 黑料吃瓜网 history, according to the finalized Fall 2017 census of enrolled students released by all three campuses.
This week in the arts, watch The School of Drama undergraduates perform an epic tale, see voice students in a one-act opera, sit in on a pre-concert lecture with the the Dean of Humanities Michael Shapiro, listen to six choral ensembles at Carolfest, and hear the Montrose Trio at their Meany Center debut.
November 28, 2017
The ocean’s deepest fish doesn’t look like it could survive in harsh conditions thousands of feet below the surface. Instead of giant teeth and a menacing frame, the fishes that roam in the deepest parts of the ocean are small, translucent, bereft of scales 鈥� and highly adept at living where few other organisms can. Meet the deepest fish in the ocean, a new species named the Mariana snailfish by an international team of researchers that discovered it. The Mariana…
A team of 黑料吃瓜网 students and faculty has won Amazon鈥檚 inaugural Alexa Prize, a university competition designed to produce an artificial intelligence agent capable of coherent and sustained conversation with humans.
Two faculty members in the 黑料吃瓜网 College of Engineering have been elected as 2018 fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Tom Furness, professor of industrial and systems engineering, was honored for 鈥渓eadership in virtual and augmented reality鈥� and Siddhartha 鈥淪idd鈥� Srinivasa, professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, was recognized for 鈥渃ontributions to robotic manipulation and human-robot interaction.鈥�
November 27, 2017
The amount of biomass 鈥� life 鈥� in Earth’s ancient oceans may have been limited due to low recycling of the key nutrient phosphorus, according to new research by the 黑料吃瓜网 and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Seattle’s homeless crisis isn’t confined to one part of town 鈥� nor does it hinge on one solution. The University District community includes as much as one-third of King County’s homeless youth over any given year. It’s a neighborhood where a food bank and youth shelter are available, and where young people on the streets can blend in. But more needs to be done in the U District and beyond to help homeless young adults become self-sufficient over the…
November 22, 2017
Eight 黑料吃瓜网 researchers are among the 396 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, announced this week.
Edwina Uehara, dean of the 黑料吃瓜网 School of Social Work, and social work professor Karen Fredriksen Goldsen have been named fellows of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The two are among 14 new fellows to be inducted by the organization, which honors scholarship, leadership and high-impact work in the field. Uehara, dean since 2006 and the inaugural holder of the Ballmer Endowed Deanship in Social Work, was named an academy honorary fellow earlier this…
November 21, 2017
Picture yourself with a friend in a crowded restaurant. The din of other diners, the clattering of dishes, the muffled notes of background music, the voice of your friend, not to mention your own 鈥� all compete for your brain’s attention. For many people, the brain can automatically distinguish the noises, identifying the sources and recognizing what they “say” and mean thanks to, among other features of sound, pitch. But for someone who wears a cochlear implant, a…
November 17, 2017
A new 黑料吃瓜网 study points to yet another human factor that is hampering the ability of fish to reproduce: the timing of our fishing seasons. The study considers how the timing of fishing efforts might disproportionately target certain fish and change the life history patterns of entire populations.
November 16, 2017
The CleanTech Alliance has presented the 黑料吃瓜网 with the organization’s 2017 CleanTech Achievement Award. The honor recognizes the 黑料吃瓜网’s dedication to research and development of transformative clean energy technologies, facilities, pipelines for startups and industry partnerships. The award was announced on Nov. 8 at the annual meeting and 10th anniversary of the CleanTech Alliance, a Seattle-based consortium of more than 300 businesses and interest groups across six U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The organization cited the 黑料吃瓜网’s…
November 15, 2017
This week in the arts; watch an epic play, Monstrosity, where girls are the heroes; experience new works of sonic and visual art through Jonty Harrison’s “Voyages,” enjoy student piano performances in Brechemin Auditorium, and listen to the 黑料吃瓜网’s top auditioned choir perform in their fall quarter concert.
One of the saltiest bodies on Earth, an analog to how water might exist on Mars, shows signs of being one piece of a larger aquifer.
A 黑料吃瓜网 team is trying to make poplar a viable competitor in the biofuels market by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently 鈥� after only two or three years 鈥� instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle.