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Honors and awards

Recent notable books by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty members explore the legal history of Indigenous nations and the mentoring benefits of fan fiction. Plus, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ anthropologist’s book is honored, a former English faculty member is remembered in a biography, and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Press brings out paperback editions of three popular titles.

Six Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professors are to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, according to an announcement July 2 from the White House. The award, also known as the PECASE, is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early-career scientists and engineers “who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.”

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s School of Oceanography again is ranked No. 1 in the world on the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects list for 2019. The ranking, released in June, was conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The has been ranked the No. 5 best place to work in the state by Forbes. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ also topped the national list of best colleges for LGBTQIA+ students published by Best Colleges, an organization that ranks higher education institutions in various categories.

Emily Levesque, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ assistant professor of astronomy, is gathering material for a new book to be called “The Last Stargazers: True Tales of the Colorful and Vanishing World of Observational Astronomy.â€�

Devin Naar, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor of international studies and history, is featured in “Children of the Inquisition,” a new documentary film about descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions discovering their Sephardic Jewish heritage. The film will premiere March 24 as part of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.

Three faculty members at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 19, include Kelley Harris, an assistant professor of genome sciences at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Medicine; and Alvin Cheung and Shayan Oveis Gharan, both assistant professors in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.

Jiun-Haw Chu, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ assistant professor of physics and faculty member at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Clean Energy Institute, has been named a 2018 fellow by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for his research on quantum materials — substances that exhibit novel combinations of quantum-mechanical properties that could one day transform information technology.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is listed at No. 5 on the Reuters Top 100: The World’s Most Innovative Universities, released Thursday. Now in its fourth year, the list ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.

Thanks to the generosity of more than 380,000 donors, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ met its fundraising campaign goal two years ahead of schedule, and will now seek broad support to enhance the experiences of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a range of identified college and school priorities.

Pablo García Borboroglu, president of the Global Penguin Society and a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ affiliate associate professor of biology, has won the Whitley Gold Award and the National Geographic/Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation, as well as accolades from the Argentine National Congress, for his research and advocacy for penguin conservation.

Kristina Olson, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ associate professor of psychology, has been named one of the 2018 MacArthur Fellows. The Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation comes with a $625,000 stipend, commonly known as the “genius grant,â€� for recipients to use as they see fit.

When Tony Greenwald and his colleagues developed the online Implicit Association Test two decades ago, it enjoyed quick success in the pre-laptop, pre-smartphone, nascent Internet world, with some 45,000 participants in the first month. The test, which requires classifying words and images rapidly according to their meanings, captures unconscious biases toward — depending on the test version — race, gender, age and dozens of other traits and preferences. Since its debut in 1998, the test has been taken online more…

Justin Marlowe, a professor in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, has been named a member of Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s Council of Economic Advisors. He will be among those advising the governor on local and state economic conditions and national developments that affect state policies.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s School of Oceanography is ranked No. 1 in the world on the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects list for 2018. The ranking, released this week, was conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.