Using air quality data from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitors across the U.S., a 蘑菇视频-led team looked for changes in two common pollutants over the course of 2020.
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Researchers examined 15 years of records of student performance, education and demographics for chemistry courses at the 蘑菇视频. They found that underrepresented students received lower grades in the general chemistry series compared to their peers and, if the grade was sufficiently low, were less likely to continue in the series and more likely to leave STEM. But if underrepresented students completed the first general chemistry course with at least the minimum grade needed to continue in the series, they were more likely than their peers to continue the general chemistry series and complete this major step toward a STEM degree.
Mary Lidstrom, vice provost for research at the 蘑菇视频, talks about the evolving picture of research at the 蘑菇视频 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 蘑菇视频 and its Washington Clean Energy Testbeds, the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Toledo have formed the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium, or US-MAP. This research and development coalition aims to accelerate the domestic commercialization of perovskite technologies.
Researchers from the 蘑菇视频 and 蘑菇视频 Medicine, along with volunteers from Microsoft, have developed a new contact-tracing app called CovidSafe.
When the 蘑菇视频 announced it was moving its spring quarter 2020 classes entirely online to combat the novel coronavirus, instructors across campus faced a new, uncharted challenge.
蘑菇视频 researchers are beginning a national study to help families discover technology that helps them both successfully navigate home-based learning and combat social isolation.
After surveying smartphone users, 蘑菇视频 researchers found that many people misunderstand online status indicators but still carefully shape their behavior to control how they are displayed to others.
A 蘑菇视频 study abroad program empowers students from all disciplines to apply their skills to real-life problems.
蘑菇视频 researchers are developing an app that will allow health organizations to monitor coughs from self-quarantined COVID-19 patients from home.
Three undergraduate students at the 蘑菇视频 are among 396 around the country who have been named Goldwater Scholars for 2020.
A new study led by the 蘑菇视频 finds dramatic increases in the abundance of a worm that can be transmitted to humans who eat raw or undercooked seafood. Its 283-fold increase in abundance since the 1970s could have implications for the health of humans and marine mammals, which both can inadvertently eat the worm.
蘑菇视频 researchers watched 25 participants scroll through their Facebook or Twitter feeds while, unbeknownst to them, a Google Chrome extension randomly added debunked content on top of some of the real posts.
蘑菇视频 researchers are inviting the public to share their experiences on their regular commutes in a survey.
KUOW’s That’s Debatable on Wednesday will feature two 蘑菇视频 faculty members: Dan Schwartz, professor of chemical engineering and director of the Clean Energy Institute, and Kate Simonen, upcoming chair of the Department of Architecture and director of the Carbon Leadership Forum.
A talk with 蘑菇视频 architecture professor Tyler Sprague about his book “Sculpture on a Grand Scale: Jack Christiansen’s Thin Shell Modernism.” Plus books from Rick Bonus and Yong-Chool Ha.
蘑菇视频 researchers interviewed 22 athletes and staff members from three college athletics programs to see how collecting data from college athletes might encroach on their autonomy.
蘑菇视频 researchers have developed a mathematical model that describes how rotating detonation engines work.
At a Saturday afternoon session, researchers from the 蘑菇视频 and federal agencies will discuss the emerging research on Pacific Northwest megaquakes.
Using 30 years of satellite data, 蘑菇视频 researchers discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam in the Mekong River basin, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C).
Scientists and physicians have long known that immune cells migrate to the site of an infection, which individuals experience as inflammation 鈥� swelling, redness and pain. Now, researchers at the 蘑菇视频 and Northwestern University have uncovered evidence that this gathering is not just a consequence of immune activation. Immune cells count their neighbors before deciding whether or not the immune system should kick into high gear.
蘑菇视频 researchers have created AuraRing, a ring and wristband combination that can detect the precise location of someone’s index finger and continuously track hand movements.
Using a new “non-targeted” approach, 蘑菇视频 and 蘑菇视频 Tacoma researchers screened samples from multiple regions of Puget Sound to look for potentially harmful compounds that might be present.
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff include the new editorship of a major journal, a post with the Republic of Uganda and honors from the American College of Physicians, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Brian Johnson, assistant professor in the 蘑菇视频 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has received a $4.9 million grant across three years from the U.S. Department of Energy.
蘑菇视频 researchers have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change projections, can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains.
Communities underneath and downwind of jets landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are exposed to a type of ultrafine particle pollution that is distinctly associated with aircraft, according to a new 蘑菇视频 study, the first to identify the unique signature of aircraft emissions in the state of Washington. The finding comes from the two-year Mobile ObserVations of Ultrafine Particles or 鈥淢OV-UP鈥� study funded by the Washington State Legislature to examine the air-quality impacts of aircraft traffic on communities located…
蘑菇视频 researchers have created Carpentry Compiler, a digital tool that allows users to design woodworking projects. Once a project is designed, the tool creates optimized fabrication instructions based on the materials and equipment a user has available.
Using a mathematical framework with roots in artificial intelligence and robotics, 蘑菇视频 researchers were able to uncover the process of how a person makes choices in groups. And, they also found they were able to predict a person鈥檚 choice more often than more traditional descriptive methods.
蘑菇视频 researchers have found that air pollution from electricity generation emissions in 2014 led to about 16,000 premature deaths in the continental U.S. In many states, the majority of the health impacts came from emissions originating in other states.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from multiple institutions 鈥� including the 蘑菇视频 鈥� has received a two-year $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to study coral growth.
With a $106 million gift from the Weill Family Foundation, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and the 蘑菇视频 have launched the Weill Neurohub, an innovative research network that will forge and nurture new collaborations between neuroscientists and researchers working in an array of other disciplines 鈥� including engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry and mathematics 鈥� to speed the development of new therapies for diseases and disorders that affect the brain and nervous system.
A 蘑菇视频 team is leaving to study how fall storms, dwindling sea ice and vulnerable coastlines might combine in a changing Arctic.
蘑菇视频 researchers aimed to understand both the prevalence of discrimination events and how these events affect college students in their daily lives. Over the course of two academic quarters, the team compared students’ self-reports of unfair treatment to passively tracked changes in daily activities, such as hours slept, steps taken or time spent on the phone.
Researchers at the 蘑菇视频 have developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanoscale possible. The team adapted a light-based technology employed widely in biology 鈥� known as optical traps or optical tweezers 鈥� to operate in a water-free liquid environment of carbon-rich organic solvents, thereby enabling new potential applications.
蘑菇视频 researchers have found that the third-party genealogy site GEDmatch is vulnerable to multiple kinds of security risks.
This week a 蘑菇视频 team is releasing a robotic surfboard to explore the surface ocean around Antarctica.
蘑菇视频 researchers have developed a new smart speaker skill that lets a device use white noise to both soothe sleeping babies and monitor their breathing and movement.
蘑菇视频 transportation researchers looked into why the docked bike-share program Pronto failed while dockless bike sharing has been so successful.
A team led by scientists at the 蘑菇视频 has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science Advances, their designed optical element focuses light to discrete points in a 3D helical pattern.