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The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has been recognized as a “Great College to Work Forâ€� by the Chronicle of Higher Education for the fourth consecutive year. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ received accolades in seven categories – the most categories to date – in addition to making the Honor Roll, a special distinction for institutions that were cited for recognition most often in their size group.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s School of Dentistry and School of Public Health are ranked No. 3 in the world on the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects list for 2017. The ranking, released in June, was conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Seeking to protect coastal communities from these devastating impacts, an interdisciplinary team of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students authored a policy case for lawmakers. Their case won the inaugural APRU-New York Times Asia-Pacific Case Competition, besting submissions from 31 universities across the Americas, Asia and Australasia

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTV and Eric Chudler, executive and education director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, received an Emmy® Award from the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Saturday for the program “BrainWorks: Exercise and the Brain” in the Health/Science Program/Special category.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ ranks seventh among national universities in a new Milken Institute report on technology transfer, “Concept to Commercialization: The Best Universities for Technology Transfer.â€� The report highlights the vital role research universities play in spurring economic growth.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ landed at No. 9 with 45 subjects ranked in the top 10 in the Center for World University Rankings’ inaugural subjects ranking. The ranking features the top global universities in 227 subjects covering all academic disciplines in the sciences and social sciences. This is the highest the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has placed in a global subject ranking.

On March 15 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland honored Adrian Raftery, a professor of statistics and sociology at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, for his diverse contributions to the field of statistics. Kenny presented Raftery with the St. Patrick’s Day Medal, which is awarded each year by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Raftery, who has worked at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ since 1986, develops new statistical methodology, with a focus on the social, environmental and health sciences….

For the 23rd time in the past 24 years, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ ranked as the No. 1 primary care medical school in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 Best Graduate School rankings released Tuesday. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Information School jumped from No. 3 to No. 2 in the nation for library and information studies programs.

The Peace Corps announced Tuesday that the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ) ranked No. 2 among large schools on the agency’s 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are 73 Huskies currently volunteering worldwide. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ ranks No. 3 all-time for total volunteers and has achieved elite top three status in the large school category for 13 consecutive years.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Computer Science & Engineering announced today the establishment of the Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. This $1 million endowment will further enhance Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ CSE’s ability to recruit and retain the world’s most outstanding faculty members in these burgeoning areas.

A new, two-part project led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Kristin Laidre aims to explore the interacting effects of climate change and subsistence hunting on polar bears, while also illuminating the cultural value of the species to indigenous peoples and the role they play in conservation.

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. 21, include Ali Farhadi, assistant professor of computer science and engineering; Emily Levesque, assistant professor of astronomy; and John Tuthill, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics.

The STARS program, which offers engineering students from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds extra academic support, will receive a one-time grant of $2.2 million from the Opportunity Expansion Fund passed by the Washington Legislature and funded by Microsoft.

The 2016 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange names the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a leader in global student engagement. The report was released Monday by the Institute for International Education. Global engagement is integral to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ student experience, also known as the Husky Experience. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ graduates leave with a global perspective, the ability to navigate and thrive within diverse communities and workplaces, and an appreciation for the value of diversity. Ranked 20th in the nation among institutions awarding…

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ maintained its No. 11 spot in the 2017 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities rankings. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ remains the third-ranked public university on the global list, behind University of California, Berkeley (fourth) and UCLA (10th). “This recognition reflects the work of our faculty and students in seeking answers to problems of global import in the areas of health and medicine, physical sciences and social sciences,â€� Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce said. “We…

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a prestigious fellowship to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ assistant professor Thomas Rothvoss to fuel his passion to balance precision and efficiency in complex mathematical calculations. The Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering honor early-career academics pursuing innovative research in all fields of science and engineering. “It’s a great honor — and frankly, I’m still digesting the news,” said Rothvoss, who has joint appointments with the Department of Mathematics and the Department of…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that David James Thouless, professor emeritus at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, will share the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics with two of his colleagues. Thouless splits the prize with Professor F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University and Professor J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter,â€� according to the prize announcement from the Academy. Half the prize goes to Thouless while Haldane and Kosterlitz divide the remaining half. Thouless is the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s seventh Nobel laureate, and second in physics after Hans Dehmelt in 1989.

Charles Johnson, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor emeritus of English, wrote a statement to accompany an item to be displayed in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. What he wrote also was featured in a special issue of Smithsonian Magazine.

Amid a decline in funding for scientific research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Simons Foundation to launch a new Faculty Scholars program. Announced Sept. 22 by HHMI, the inaugural crop of early-career scientists includes 5 faculty members from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.

Researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ are among the winners of a startup challenge to shorten the transition time from lab bench to patient. The team, including members of professor Suzie Pun’s research group in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Bioengineering, was selected based on its proposal and business plan to develop a targeted drug delivery system for breast cancer.

A Q&A with Carol Bogezi, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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.

A dozen scientists and engineers from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ were chosen because they had been elected recently to…