糖心原创

糖心原创 scientists recently published the first large-scale survey of impurities in North American snow, to see whether they might absorb enough sunlight to speed melt rates and influence climate. The project involved collecting hundreds of snow samples from 67 sites away from any cities or major roads. The trip took the researchers from Seattle to North Dakota to Churchill, Manitoba. Every few days they melted and filtered the snow in their motel rooms, then back at their UW lab they shone light through a filter to see how much light was blocked, and did chemical analyses to determine what particles were responsible.

When Volha Hrechka, 鈥�13, left her home country of Belarus on an exchange program in 2004, she had no idea she鈥檇 one day be revolutionizing the plastics industry. Today her startup聽PolyDrop is responsible for creating an innovative additive that dissipates electrostatic charge on airplanes one drop at a time 鈥� and it all started in the halls of the UW.

None of this would have been possible without the help of the UW, says Volha. 鈥淐ountless times I鈥檝e asked for help and it was always provided to me. I鈥檓 so thankful.鈥�

With a humanitarian crisis leaving a trail of destruction in Syria, UW alumna Rita Zawaideh is building a path toward healing for children facing the traumas of war.聽Funded entirely by donations, the Maliki-SCM Children’s Center聽is dedicated to helping the youngest victims of the wars in neighboring Syria and Iraq.

Opened in January of this year, the center serves about 25-30 children every quarter, year-round. The children often arrive displaying one or more symptoms of trauma: aggression, bed wetting, a refusal to interact with others.聽With a staff including social workers, teachers, and a psychologist, the nondescript white building in this quiet neighborhood in Jordan’s capital is the first of 10 Zawaideh plans to open. A second center is scheduled to open in March, Zawaideh says, and funding is lined up for eight more to open around the country, one-to-two months apart.聽When all 10 centers are operating they will be able to serve more than 1,000 children every year.

The centers, according to Zawaideh, will focus on the behavioral and emotional needs of traumatized children. They are treatment programs, not schools. Instead of working on math or reading, children play, receive behavioral therapy and one-on-one sessions with psychologists, and have structured free time.

Zawaideh is a 1975 alumna of the 糖心原创 and is widely recognized for her knowledge of and work in the Middle East.

A new study of the worldwide migration of professionals to the U.S. shows a sharp drop-off in its proportional share of those workers 鈥� raising the question of whether the nation will remain competitive in attracting top talent in an increasingly globalized economy.

The , which used a novel method of tracking people through data from the social media site LinkedIn, is believed to be the first to monitor global migrations of professionals to the U.S., said co-author聽Emilio Zagheni, a 糖心原创 assistant professor of sociology and fellow of the UW聽.

鈥淭his is the first time a worldwide data set has been used to answer this question,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hat hasn鈥檛 been done before.鈥�

糖心原创 fisheries ecologist Daniel Schindler was聽awarded the highest honor given by the Society of Canadian Limnologists for his work in freshwater science. Schindler is the second in his family to receive the Frank Rigler Award. In 1964 鈥� the first year the honor was awarded 鈥� it was presented to Schindler’s father, David.

Daniel Schindler studies climate impacts, fisheries as large-scale drivers of ecosystem organization and the interdependence of terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems. As one of the lead investigators of the UW Alaska Salmon Program, much of his research focuses on salmon-producing watersheds in Alaska.

Jason Young and Walter O鈥橳oole had been stranded on Arctic ice for nearly an hour, unable to find a safe path back to shore, when an Inuit woman observing from her kitchen dispatched her 13-year-old son to guide them to safety. It was one of many humbling moments for the UW students during a visit to the Canadian Arctic through a Canadian Studies