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A recent report and upcoming virtual event looks at the unequal effect of marine plastics on different communities. The international report led by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Yoshitaka Ota covers topics ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on plastic pollution to a critique of Coca-Cola’s waste initiative.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Virtual Field Geology project has many goals: to make geology field experiences accessible to more people; to document geological field sites that may be at risk from erosion or development; to offer virtual “dry runâ€� experiences; and to allow scientific collaborators to do virtual visits to a field site together. While the pandemic brought new urgency to the project, its developers believe it’s part of a “new normal” for geology research and education.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s new Sisterhood Initiative aims to support young women of color through a cohort-based program, building on the success of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Brotherhood Initiative, which focuses on young men of color.

In one of the first studies to explore how COVID-19 specifically affects older infants, researchers from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and at institutions at four other locations in the Western and Southern U.S. found that the number of infected people in a household was the factor most closely linked with the infant’s likelihood of being infected.

New research from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor Robert Palmatier examines how factors related to social media influencers, their posts and their followers impact marketing success. The study concluded that reallocating spending based on the study’s insights could result in a 16.6% increase in engagement.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Professor Joan Sanders and her team are creating a new type of prosthetic leg: one that automatically adjusts its fit throughout the day. Their latest prototype detects in real time how well the prosthesis socket and amputation site are fitting and responds by automatically changing the size of the socket, without the need for adjustments to padding or user action.

Early Sunday morning, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ used the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Alert system to warn the Seattle campus community about a shooting that occurred near NE 43rd Street and University Way NE just after 1 a.m. Four Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students were injured and transported to Harborview Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce made the following statement in response to the shooting.

  As King County seeks to reach its goal of “zero youth detentionâ€� — ultimately eliminating the practice of juvenile detention in the county —̹½ÊÓÆµ researchers are working to help address major systemic challenges in how young people engage with health care. With a strategic plan to close the juvenile detention center by 2025, King County needs an increasingly robust system to ensure youth are getting consistent and accessible services, including health care. This is especially true upon…

A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ pilot project is exploring the use of fiber-optic sensing for seismology, glaciology, and even urban monitoring. Funded in part with a $473,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, a nonprofit based in Vancouver, Washington, the new Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Photonic Sensing Facility will use photons traveling through a fiber-optic cable to detect ground motions as small as 1 nanometer.

After Washington became the first state to require suicide prevention training for health care providers, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ worked with experts and organizations to develop the All Patients Safe program. A new study shows how All Patients Safe helped providers of all specialties learn how to identify and respond to patients at risk of suicide.

The Our Future Duwamish project, available to community groups through The Seattle Public Library, uses an Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset to help viewers imagine rising seas from a vantage point along the South Seattle waterway.

On Saturday, for the first time since 2019, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ held in-person Commencement ceremonies at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium where the University conferred degrees on the Class of 2022. On Sunday, it welcomed alumni from the 2020 and 2021 school years for a Return to Husky Stadium Graduation Celebration.