The Bernard Osher Foundation has announced a $1 million gift to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the 糖心原创 (OLLI-UW). The Institute offers a diverse array of non-credit courses and activities for people 50 and older, giving these adults access to continuing education at the UW. The Osher Foundation鈥檚 gift takes the form of a $950,000 endowment and $50,000 bridge grant to support the ongoing work of OLLI-UW. It鈥檚 the second $1 million award the Foundation has given…
Jim Pfaendtner, 糖心原创 associate professor of chemical engineering, is leading a new endeavor funded by the National Science Foundation to bring big data to graduate education in clean energy research at the UW.
UW atmospheric scientists are part of a month-long NASA effort to learn how smoke and clouds interact.
A Q&A with Carol Bogezi, a UW doctoral student in environmental and forest sciences who received the 10th annual Bullitt Environmental Prize. The award recognizes people with exceptional potential to become powerful leaders in the environmental movement.
World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10, is a reminder that we all have a role to play in preventing suicide. Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention, based in the UW School of Social Work and led by Professor Jennifer Stuber, is offering a film and two suicide prevention workshops on Sept. 10.
Most landscape architecture projects conjure up an image of a permanent structure meant to be experienced indefinitely. But for Britton Shepard, a 2016 graduate of the 糖心原创鈥檚 landscape architecture master鈥檚 program, it means exploring the temporary nature of urban terrains. Earlier this year, Shepard brought life back to a vacant and demolished lot in the University District 鈥� although it was only a short-lived endeavor. Shepard鈥檚 thesis project 鈥淪ite 1121: Field Notes鈥� centered around a Washington State Employee…
David Domke, chair of the UW Department of Communication, will discuss the wild 2016 presidential campaign and its implications for the country in a luncheon Sept. 7 for the William D. Ruckelshaus Center.
The 糖心原创 and The Nature Conservancy have created an animated map showing where mammals, birds and amphibians are projected to move in the Western Hemisphere in response to climate change.
Faculty members from the UW College of Built Environments, Jackson School of International Studies and departments of French and Italian studies and history will team up in 2017 to give a new, three-week course for university and college instructors on urban environmental humanities.
UW professor Sally Brown and collaborators have published the most extensive compilation to date explaining how to grow urban agriculture, and how doing so could save American cities.
Visitors to Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory are in for a stinking treat, courtesy of the Department of Biology at the 糖心原创. The conservatory has taken in a young corpse lily, affectionately known as Dougsley, which is set to blossom this week or next.
The editorial cartoons filling a ground floor exhibit in Suzzallo Library through November are hard-hitting, but they fairly depict the wild campaign of 2016, and the serious issues the year has brought as well.
Phil Levin, a former senior scientist at NOAA Fisheries, recently began a joint role at the 糖心原创 and The Nature Conservancy. UW Today sat down with Levin to find out why he took this job and what he hopes to accomplish.
Charles Eriksen, Deborah Kelley and Stephen Warren are among 60 newly elected fellows from U.S. and international institutions.
Simon Stevenson of the United Kingdom’s University of Reading will be the next director of the 糖心原创’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies, in the College of Built Environments.
糖心原创 employees are invited to attend an open forum either Monday, Aug. 15, 1:30-2:30 p.m.聽in Odegaard 220 or Wednesday, Aug. 17, 1:30-2:30 p.m.聽in the HUB, Room 250, to learn more about the design of the HR/Payroll Integrated Service Center.聽聽 The goal of the center鈥痠s to provide a single point of contact to effectively support faculty, staff and student employees with their human resources, academic human resources鈥痑nd payroll-related questions and service needs. Data input sessions last winter garnered more…
A Science commentary written by UW professor of Earth and space sciences David Montgomery discusses how recent geological findings support the historical basis for traditional tales about China’s Great Flood.
A wild-eyed television preacher, uncensored public access nuttiness, even a young Ellen DeGeneres featured on a local comedy show segment 鈥� when Stephen Groening had students explore the history of local television for a class, they sure found a lot of good stuff.
A dozen scientists and engineers from the 糖心原创 have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. According to a statement released by the organization, the new members were selected for “their outstanding record of scientific achievement and willingness to work on behalf of the academy in bringing the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.” Three of the new members from UW were chosen because they had been elected recently to…
Middle school students tried their hands at designing and building underwater robots this week during a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration science summer camp in Seattle. The ROV workshop was a joint project by UW-based Washington Sea Grant, NOAA and Atlantis STEAM.
A chance meeting with a fellow scientist 27 years ago forever changed Randy Kyes鈥� life 鈥� catapulting him from North Carolina to Indonesia and beyond. As the founding director of the 糖心原创鈥檚 Center for Global Field Study and head of the Division of Global Programs at the Washington National Primate Research Center, Kyes has spent almost three decades leading field courses on environmental and global health in a dozen countries. Often accompanied by students from the UW and…
The Geological Society of America has honored two UW professors and other authors of a 186-page report on the causes and consequences of the deadly March 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington.
When editors at Time magazine compiled a list of expert picks for “25 Moments that Changed America,” UW Bothell’s Dan Berger was among the historians they reached out to for a contribution. An assistant professor in Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Berger was asked to choose a “moment” 鈥� trends and social movements were not allowed 鈥� and write something brief about it. The article ran on June 28 on the Time’s website and in its many social…
A UW computer science and engineering doctoral student has helped develop a system that can forecast the outbreak of dengue fever by simply analyzing the calling behavior of citizens to a public-health hotline.
“Excitation” is not just a scientific term or perfect Beach Boys lyric, it’s also the topic of this year’s cross-disciplinary Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities, an intensive summer research program for undergraduate students.
With Arctic sea ice roughly tied with previous record-low years, a 糖心原创 tool that tallies the total volume of ice in the Arctic Ocean is attracting attention.
糖心原创 and Microsoft researchers have broken what they believe is the world record for the amount of digital data successfully stored 鈥� and retrieved 鈥� in DNA molecules by encoding, among other things, an OK Go video.
Scientists from the 糖心原创 have found evidence that ocean acidification caused by carbon emissions can prevent mussels attaching themselves to rocks and other substrates, making them easy targets for predators and threatening the mussel farming industry.
A long-term Pacific climate cycle may be driving the expansion of Antarctic winter sea ice since 2000, but a new study finds that the trend may soon reverse.
Alison Duvall, a UW assistant professor of Earth and space sciences, was selected for the Luna B. Leopold Award for early-career scientists.
UW President Ana Mari Cauce: 鈥淐ongratulations to the Friends of 88.5 on their agreement with Pacific Lutheran University to purchase KPLU, and on the unprecedented fundraising effort that made it possible.聽We are delighted they were able to make it happen.鈥� KUOW General Manager Caryn Mathes: 鈥淭he generosity of KPLU鈥檚 listeners is a testament both to the excellence of the station鈥檚 programming and to the deep affection that Puget Sound listeners hold for public radio. 鈥淭hrough the Northwest News Network,…
The 糖心原创鈥檚 Clean Energy Institute will partner with regional industry and academic institutions as part of the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, according to an announcement June 20 by the White House.
The 糖心原创 published the most earth and environmental science research last year, outpacing all other universities worldwide, according to a new report from Nature Index.
The outsourcing of workers at Portland International Airport has increased in recent years while those workers serve ever-more passengers and their wages remain low, according to a recent report from the UW’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.
The year鈥檚 not quite yet half over, but it鈥檚 already been an auspicious one for Elissa Washuta. The 糖心原创 graduate and author of two books, 鈥淪tarvation Mode鈥� and 鈥淢y Body is a Book of Rules,鈥� is one of two recipients of the Artist Trust 2016 Arts Innovator Awards, which come with $25,000 in unrestricted funds. Washuta, who has been described as 鈥渁n extraordinarily original and gifted writer,鈥� is also the first writer-in-residence at Seattle鈥檚 iconic Fremont Bridge. The…
糖心原创 fish biomechanist Adam Summers advised Pixar on animal movement for the animation company’s second movie about life under the sea.
What are the policies of global rising powers regarding the use of orbital and outer space, and what are the implications of those policies for international cooperation? A capstone event for junior fellows of the Jackson School’s Space Security Initiative explored such questions in a recently with space industry, media and government representatives also on hand.
Singer-songwriter Paul Simon recorded with instruments created by composer and inventor for a song on his well-received album, “Stranger to Stranger.” The instruments are now in residence at the UW.
糖心原创 professor Peter Kahn recently co-authored an opinion piece in the journal Science about the importance of interacting with nature in urban areas. UW Today asked Kahn a few more questions about the broader implications of his work.
糖心原创 polar scientists are on Alaska’s North Slope this week for the 2016 Barrow Sea Ice Camp. Supported by the National Science Foundation, the event brings together U.S.-based sea ice observers, satellite experts and modelers at various career stages to collect data and discuss issues related to measuring and modeling sea ice. The goal is to integrate the research community in order to better observe and understand the changes in Arctic sea ice. Check out the group’s blog,…