黑料吃瓜网 researchers are scaling up a novel plasma confinement device with a DOE grant, in hopes of producing a self-sustaining reaction to create fusion energy.
June 2, 2015
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June 1, 2015
Drumheller Fountain reopens a week early
Drumheller Fountain, one of the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 campus icons, reopened Monday, one week ahead of schedule after having been closed by聽Facilities Services crews April 27 for its biannual cleaning and maintenance. 鈥淒rumheller Fountain is the centerpiece of our campus,鈥� maintenance supervisor Dale Baxmann聽said. 鈥淲e need to be good stewards of our campus landmarks; responsible planning and maintenance work is really important to our aging icons.鈥� Maintenance activities included patching and repairing the fountain鈥檚 liner, to prevent water leaks. Facilities鈥�…
黑料吃瓜网 students use open source mapping to aid relief efforts in Nepal
黑料吃瓜网 civil and environmental engineering students have joined a 4,000-volunteer crowdsourcing effort to turn satel颅lite imagery of Nepal into maps that aid earthquake relief efforts.
May 29, 2015
History professor Elena Campbell publishes book on Russia and the ‘Muslim question’
Elena I. Campbell, a 黑料吃瓜网 associate professor of history, has published her first book, which studies Russia’s policies toward Muslims in the 19th and 20th centuries and the impact of the “Muslim Question” on the modernizing path the country would follow. “The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance” was published early this spring by Indiana University Press. “From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the…
May 28, 2015
How do preschoolers start learning science?
One of the best ways children learn is by copying what they see others do. Now new research shows that this learning strategy can be used even with things that cannot be seen, including invisible scientific concepts. Weight, for example, is a concept that cannot be seen directly, and it puzzles most preschool-aged children. While they can figure out other more obvious properties about objects, such as their shape, color, or the sound they make, weight trips them up. Researchers…
Physicists conduct most precise measurement yet of interaction between atoms and carbon surfaces
黑料吃瓜网 physicists have conducted the most precise and controlled measurements yet of the interaction between the atoms and molecules that comprise air and the type of carbon surface used in battery electrodes and air filters 鈥� key information for improving those technologies.
May 27, 2015
Arts Roundup: Music, exhibits 鈥� and ‘Boy’s Life’
This week, head to the theater to enjoy the School of Drama鈥檚 production of the bitingly funny 鈥淏oy鈥檚 Life鈥� or the Undergraduate Theater Society鈥檚 adventurous production of 鈥淥n the Verge.鈥� Also this week, the School of Music presents the 黑料吃瓜网 Gospel Choir, 黑料吃瓜网 Symphony, and more. 3D4M BFA Show May 27 – June 6 |聽Jacob Lawrence Gallery This graduation exhibition features pieces by students receiving a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture Program.聽More…
Invisible helpers of the sea: Marine bacteria boost growth of tiny ocean algae
Using seawater collected in Seattle, Whidbey Island and other sites, 黑料吃瓜网 oceanographers show that just as with plants on land, a common species of ocean diatom grows faster in the presence of helpful bacteria.
In ‘Unending Hunger,’ poverty knows no borders
As a graduate student and food justice activist in Santa Barbara, California, Megan Carney became aware that many migrant women in the area struggled to feed their families. Her recently published book “The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders,” examines the personal and political aspects of hunger and tells the stories of the women she met through her research. Carney, now a lecturer in the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 anthropology department and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies…
May 26, 2015
黑料吃瓜网 EcoCAR 3 team to compete on home turf
Sylvie Troxel didn’t own a driver’s license when she joined the 黑料吃瓜网’s EcoCAR team as a freshman four years ago. A lifelong bus rider, she knew virtually nothing about cars. She had never manufactured anything before she started working in the 黑料吃瓜网 machine shop where students fabricate the components to turn an iconic muscle car into a high-performance electric hybrid. “I joined the team with no skills and sort of no confidence in my engineering ability,” said Troxel,…
Seattle sushi chef to speak May 29 on converting to all sustainable fish
How can a sushi bar eliminate some of its most popular fish from the menu and still be profitable? One local establishment accomplished this, claiming that sustainable seafood is more important than profits in the long term. Hajime Sato, owner of Mashiko Japanese restaurant in West Seattle, will speak about his experience converting his sushi bar into the first (and likely still the only) fully sustainable sushi restaurant in the city as part of a 黑料吃瓜网 School of Marine and…
New Center for Communication, Difference and Equity opens
The 黑料吃瓜网 communication department will open its new Center for Communication, Difference and Equity with public events May 27 to 29, on campus and off. “The CCDE is a space 鈥� a physical space, intellectual space and community space 鈥� where we as a department and as a university are going to be able to center these issues of power, privilege and difference,” said Ralina Joseph, professor of communication and the center’s director. “And to think of how…
May 22, 2015
Beach scene, text game, draping still life 鈥� and pie 鈥� in graduate student art show
A look at the annual exhibit for students graduating with master’s degrees in art and design, at the Henry Art Gallery.
May 21, 2015
黑料吃瓜网 wins national award for promoting women’s participation in undergraduate computing
The National Center for Women & Information Technology awarded its inaugural grand prize for excellence in recruiting, engaging and supporting women undergraduates in computer science to the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). The national nonprofit that works to increase women鈥檚 participation in computing and technology selected 黑料吃瓜网 CSE as the recipient of its top prize, which comes with $100,000, as part of its NCWIT Extension Services Transformation (NEXT) Awards recognizing academic departments that have shown…
Arts Roundup: Jazz, yoga 鈥� and Cloud Chamber Bowls
The School of Music offers a variety of events this week, highlighting jazz modern, percussion, 聽and the music and instruments of 20th century composer Harry Partch.聽Arts黑料吃瓜网 presents its final Arts Dawgs reception of the year, co-hosted by the School of Art + Art History + Design at the Henry Art Gallery, celebrating the opening of the MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition; and if you鈥檙e looking for a comedy of manners, don鈥檛 miss the School of Drama鈥檚 production of 鈥淏oy鈥檚 Life,鈥�…
Students put GIS skills to use on social justice projects
Geography professor Sarah Elwood sits at the front of a 黑料吃瓜网 classroom on a recent afternoon, listening and making suggestions as students discuss the data challenges they’re having. Some are wondering how to put data in a particular format. Others are muddling through the process of mapping data, or figuring out where to source information. 鈥淭hink about who has the data you need, and how do you shake it loose from them?鈥� Elwood says. 鈥淭here are many public…
May 20, 2015
“Student Voices Making Change” symposium May 27 at HUB
More than two hundred high school students from four area high schools will visit the campus for a daylong seminar in the HUB May 27 as part of Teachers and Texts, which in turn is part of the 黑料吃瓜网 in the High School program, sponsored by Professional and Continuing Education. The event is called the Northwest Collaborative Regional Symposium, with the subtitle “Student Voices Making Change.” 黑料吃瓜网 240 students of a class called Margins and Centers at Eastlake, Roosevelt, Franklin…
Public hearing notice
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at Noon on Friday, May 29, 2015, in Room 142 of Gerberding Hall, on the 黑料吃瓜网 Seattle campus.聽 The purpose of the hearing is to allow all interested persons an opportunity to present their views, either orally or in writing, on the proposed amendments to Chapter 478-168 WAC, 鈥淩egulations for the 黑料吃瓜网 libraries.鈥� Chapter 478-168 WAC establishes the loan code, access to and conditions for use of…
Burke Museum paleontologists discover the first dinosaur fossil in Washington state
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture paleontologists have documented the first dinosaur fossil from Washington state. The fossil was collected by a Burke Museum research team along the shores of Sucia Island State Park in the San Juan Islands.
黑料吃瓜网-led network seeks to reframe poverty locally and globally
Two 黑料吃瓜网 geography professors are leading an effort with what might be considered a staggeringly ambitious goal 鈥� to reframe how poverty is perceived and studied around the world. Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood are the co-founders of the 黑料吃瓜网-based Relational Poverty Network, a coalition of academic institutions and organizations around the United States and as far away as Europe, Asia and Africa. The network seeks to recast perceptions of poverty from something impacting others 鈥� what Lawson…
May 19, 2015
Former Gov. Christine Gregoire to be 黑料吃瓜网 commencement speaker
Christine Gregoire, who served as Washington鈥檚 22nd governor from 2005 to 2013, will be the featured speaker at the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚聽Commencement聽exercises June聽13. Gregoire, a 1969 graduate of the 黑料吃瓜网, was named director of the Washington Department of Ecology in 1988. Four years later, she became the first woman elected to the position of attorney general in the state of Washington and served in that post for three terms before being elected governor. During two terms as governor, Gregoire proposed…
黑料吃瓜网’s Deborah Kelley publishes atlas of seafloor volcanoes and deep-ocean life
Oceanographer Deborah Kelley is one of the lead authors of a first-of-its-kind atlas of the deep sea, titled “Discovering the Deep.”
May 18, 2015
David Shields’ book 鈥� now a James Franco film 鈥� to screen at Hugo House
“I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel,” a film directed by James Franco based on 黑料吃瓜网 English Professor David Shields‘ latest book, with former student Caleb Powell, will be shown at Seattle literary venue Hugo House at 7 p.m. May 30, 31 and June 1. The screenings will be U.S. premiere for the film, which made its world debut May 3 at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver, B.C. “Life is serious business,鈥� Shields said recently. “We all have…
Runstad Center graduate student team wins low-income housing challenge
An interdisciplinary team of 黑料吃瓜网 graduate students and its proposal for a 69-unit affordable housing development in Tacoma’s Wedge neighborhood has won the 24th annual Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge, held May 14 in San Francisco. The team was organized by the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies, which is in the 黑料吃瓜网 College of Built Environments. Members were Ben Broesamle and Sam Yimparsit of the Master of Science in Real Estate program, Zi Cai and Genevieve Hale-Case of…
Study: 44 percent of parents struggle to limit cell phone use at playgrounds
A new 黑料吃瓜网 study finds that cell phone use at playgrounds is a significant source of parental guilt, and that caregivers absorbed in their phones were much less attentive to children’s requests.
May 15, 2015
Washington Sea Grant鈥檚 Ed Melvin wins presidential award for seabird-saving streamer lines
A Washington Sea Grant staff scientist is sharing top honors for developing gear that nearly eliminates seabird bycatch in long-line fisheries from the West Coast to South Africa.
Chemical tags in ear bones track Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon
A chemical signature recorded on the ear bones of Chinook salmon from Alaska’s Bristol Bay region could tell scientists and resource managers where they are born and how they spend their first year of life.
David Ferry to give annual Theodore Roethke reading May 28
Poet David Ferry will give the 52nd annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 28, Kane Hall’s room 130, also known as the Roethke Auditorium. The event is free and the public is invited. Ferry is the author of eight books of poetry, including “Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations,” which won the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry and was praised by The New Yorker as “one of the great books of poetry of this young…
May 14, 2015
黑料吃瓜网 Regents vote to divest from coal companies
The 黑料吃瓜网 Board of Regents on Thursday voted to prohibit direct investment of endowment funds in publicly traded companies whose principal business is the mining of coal for use in energy generation. The Board also reaffirmed the importance of the University鈥檚 wide-ranging sustainability efforts. The vote is the culmination of a process that began in December 2012, when Divest 黑料吃瓜网, a student campaign representing more than 20 registered student organizations, sent a petition to then-President Michael K. Young…
黑料吃瓜网 Regents appoint Presidential Search Advisory Committee, authorize Chair to contract with national search firm
The 黑料吃瓜网 Board of Regents took another critical step in selecting its next president Thursday by naming the members of its Presidential Search Advisory Committee and selecting a national search firm to assist in the process. Kenyon Chan, chancellor emeritus and professor at 黑料吃瓜网 Bothell, will chair the committee comprising 27 additional members, including Regents, faculty, staff, students and members of the public. The Regents have also held open forums, one each in Seattle, Tacoma and Bothell, with…
黑料吃瓜网 Regents approve new name for Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
The Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the 黑料吃瓜网 has a new name following approval by the university鈥檚 Board of Regents during a meeting Thursday. Effective July 1, the university鈥檚 largest graduate degree program will be known as the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. 鈥淭he Regents鈥� action is welcomed and an exciting development in our program鈥檚 history,鈥� said Sandra O. Archibald, dean and professor. 鈥淭he new name recognizes our intellectual and practical…
May 13, 2015
Arts Roundup: Dance, music 鈥� and a barnyard fungus
This week the MFA Dance Concert and Pilobolus take the lead. The School of Music also has a busy week, presenting the Voice Divisional Recital as well as Jazz Innovations and an evening of music from Zimbabwe with visiting artists Paul Mataruse and Clair Jones.
Friday Harbor Labs event May 16 features marine science, scuba demos
If you’re looking for an escape this weekend, hop a ferry to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island and check out 黑料吃瓜网 marine science research ranging from invertebrates and plankton to quirky fish and ocean acidification. The 黑料吃瓜网’s Friday Harbor Laboratories will host its annual open house Saturday, May 16, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the campus in Friday Harbor, about a mile from the ferry terminal. The event is free and open to the public. Organizers expect more…
May 12, 2015
黑料吃瓜网 wave expert to appear tonight on TV’s ‘The Deadliest Catch’
The lead-up to the 11th season of The Deadliest Catch, the hit reality TV show about crab fishing in Alaska, is “The Bait,” in which captains of crab boats discuss some of the elements featured on the program. Tonight a 黑料吃瓜网 oceanographer will talk to the captains about one of the main reasons that the show gets its name: big waves. Jim Thomson, an oceanographer with the 黑料吃瓜网 Applied Physics Laboratory, will be on the segment that first…
Top student climate change films to screen May 15 at Town Hall
Short clips ranging from Claymation and music videos to documentary and animated shorts that tell the story of what climate change means to local high school and college students will be shown in a first-ever video contest put on by the 黑料吃瓜网’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Update:聽Watch the winning videos Ten of the top three-minute videos will be screened at Town Hall in Seattle at 7 p.m. Friday, May 15. A panel of judges that includes musical and…
Housing market strong, affordability issues linger in first quarter of 2015
Washington state’s housing market was strong in the first quarter of 2015, according to the 黑料吃瓜网’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies.
May 11, 2015
Atmospheric scientist Bob Houze awarded Symons Gold Medal
The Royal Meteorological Society has awarded Robert Houze, a 黑料吃瓜网 professor of atmospheric sciences, the Symons Gold Medal. The London-based society awards this international honor every two years to recognize distinguished work in meteorology, and it is considered one of the most prestigious awards in the field. Houze will deliver the society’s Symons Gold Medal Lecture May 20 in London on “The many ways that mountains affect precipitation: A broader view of orographic precipitation.” Houze earned his undergraduate degree from…
黑料吃瓜网 author reads from ‘The Unending Hunger’ at Kane Hall May 14
Mention Santa Barbara, California, and many people might envision beaches, celebrities and ritzy homes in the so-called “American Riviera.” But Megan Carney saw a much different side of the area while attending graduate school at the University of California’s campus there. Through her work on food justice advocacy initiatives, Carney learned that the Santa Barbara region had one of the highest rates of poverty in the nation and some of the highest levels of food insecurity in California. “It’s a…
May 8, 2015
May 19 lecture: How ‘The Terminator’ could change 3-D manufacturing
The metallic shapeshifting villain from 鈥淭he Terminator鈥� movies has inspired innovations in 3-D printing to be featured in 黑料吃瓜网 Bioengineering鈥檚 annual Robert F. Rushmer Lecture on Tuesday, May 19, 4:30 p.m. Joseph M. DeSimone, a prolific inventor, serial entrepreneur, renowned scholar and CEO will discuss “Breakthroughs in Imprint Lithography and 3-D Additive Fabrication鈥� that could pave the wave for efficient and scalable 3-D manufacturing. The lecture in the William H. Foege South Auditorium (Room S060) is free and open to…
New book celebrates work, legacy of 黑料吃瓜网 landscape architect Richard Haag
Thaisa Way, associate professor of landscape architecture in the 黑料吃瓜网 College of Built Environments, discusses her book, “The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design.”