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Political science researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ examined the factors associated with statewide mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. When controlling for other factors, states with Republican governors delayed imposing broad indoor mask requirements by nearly a month.

Meat processing plants face challenges in keeping workers safe during the pandemic. Carrie Freshour, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ assistant professor of geography, and Marissa Baker, an assistant professor in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and an expert on worker safety related to infectious diseases, provides comments on what the industry can do to protect workers.

What does it feel like to be a mother on this Mother’s Day? And how can we make the day seem special when life feels so uncertain and stressful? Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ psychology professor Liliana Lengua offers some perspective.

As the push to relax social and economic restrictions for combating the pandemic gain traction, we need to understand personal motives behind what many experts consider a dangerous rush to “reopen” and how to protect workers most at risk when communities do “go back to work.â€� Three Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ experts weigh in.

With the university’s spring quarter beginning Monday, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ staff and student workers in the Student Technology Loan Program spent the week-long spring break gathering, checking and cleaning some 300 laptops and tablets for distribution – and, for the first time, shipping many of those devices to the homes of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students across the country.

This wasn’t how LaShawnDa Pittman expected to give her final exam review: At her kitchen table, laptop open, coffee cup at the ready, her 12-year-old Chihuahua named Espresso by her side. But as the first week of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s shift to online classes drew to a close, Pittman, an assistant professor of American Ethnic Studies, was talking with her students over the conferencing platform Zoom, first to answer logistical questions about the upcoming exam, then to provide a…

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ led a clinical trial involving more than 600 children in Kenya and Tanzania, in which community members were trained to deliver mental health treatment, showed improvement in participants’ trauma-related symptoms up to a year after receiving therapy.

On a recent Saturday evening, a dozen women gathered around a table at a community room in the White Center neighborhood of Seattle, settling in with snacks and conversation. The evening’s program would be more education than entertainment, an opportunity to discuss topics so sensitive that, without the group of women assembled that night, might not be discussed at all. Against one wall of the room, a model of the female reproductive system. Standing before them, a doula, one of…

New findings from the largest study of socially-transitioned transgender children in the world, conducted by researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, show that gender identity and gender-typed preferences manifest similarly in both cis- and transgender children, even those who recently transitioned.