A conversation with new School of Music professor Anne Searcy about her new book, “Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange.”
蘑菇视频 Notebook
蘑菇视频 Notebook features stories of interest to the 蘑菇视频 community 鈥� including projects and books by, and recognition of, 蘑菇视频 faculty, students and staff. If you鈥檇 like to submit a story idea, email uwnews@uw.edu.
蘑菇视频 English professor Shawn Wong discusses his 蘑菇视频 Press book series. “We’re interested in all Asian American authors, particularly classic works that have gone out of print. We are open to anything 鈥� fiction, poetry and nonfiction,” Wong said. “But we’re also interested in new works.”
A talk with the hosts of Washington Sea Grant’s “Coastal Caf茅” podcast, which is also a radio show. And EarthLab’s podcast “Voices Unbound” releases a new season of timely topics.
Megan Ming Francis, 蘑菇视频 associate professor of political science, has been named one of 12 grant-supported “Freedom Scholars” in a new $3 million initiative by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation, working together.
A conversation with 蘑菇视频 professor Cecilia Aragon about her new memoir, “Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team”
The Department of English has introduced its new “Literature, Language, Culture” Dialogue Series, a series of podcasts and YouTube videos — and Devin Naar of Sephardic Studies is interviewed on two podcasts
Recent news about 蘑菇视频-authored books includes a 蘑菇视频 Press book on salmon habitat restoration amid climate change and a paperback edition of a book on building reuse. Also, Anu Taranath’s “Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World” is a Washington State Book Award finalist.
Recent honors and grants to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff have come from the American Chemical Society, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Science Board and the family of engineers Ganesh and Hema Moorthy.
In his latest book, Rick Bonus discusses how Pacific Islander students at the 蘑菇视频 used the ocean as a metaphor to create community for themselves and change their university.
Recent honors and grants to 蘑菇视频 individuals and units have come from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Marconi Society 鈥� and the White House.
蘑菇视频 Libraries has published timely new online guides to help researchers studying the Black experience in the Pacific Northwest and the broader topic of racial justice.
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff members have come from the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, Association Media & Publishing and The American Society of Human Genetics.
Jos茅 Alaniz says that comics 鈥� especially superhero tales 鈥� hooked him and “rewired” his brain at an early age. They also got him drawing his own comics, chronicling his life and the things he observes. Now Alaniz, a 蘑菇视频 professor of Slavic languages and literatures, has published a collection of his own drawings and essays. “The Phantom Zone.”
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff have come from Architect magazine, the Center for Research Libraries, member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the American Society of Human Genetics.
Notable new books by 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff include a study of rebellion at sea, an emeritus faculty member’s Buddhist-focused memoir, a reconsideration of Northwest Coast Native American art with Indigenous perspectives in mind, thoughts on bridging cultural gaps through design 鈥� and an award for the editor-in-chief of 蘑菇视频 Press.
BJ Cummings,community engagement manager for the Superfund Research Program at the 蘑菇视频, discusses her book “The River that Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish,” published in July by 蘑菇视频 Press.
A talk with Eric Madfis of 蘑菇视频 Tacoma about his new book “How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings,” published this spring by Palgrave MacMillan.
A quick look at several 蘑菇视频-produced podcasts, from benevolent marketing to Arctic geopolitics 鈥� and a classics professor’s work being featured in a podcast produced by the Times Literary Supplement.
蘑菇视频 family physician Morhaf Al Achkar publishes memoir “Being Authentic,” and a Lambda Literary award goes to 蘑菇视频 Tacoma’s Emily Thuma.
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute has named 蘑菇视频 mathematics professor Tatiana Toro the recipient of its 2020 Blackwell-Tapia Prize.
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff have come from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, the Freeman Foundation and the IEEE.
Charles Johnson has written novels and short stories, screenplays and philosophical meditations, but his latest book is something different, and very personal. “GRAND: A Grandparent’s Wisdom for a Happy Life” was published May 5.
It’s one thing to run a marathon for 26.2 miles. But what possesses some people to run 100 miles or more, and do it again and again? “Salvation,” answers Amy Mower in a new book about ultramarathon running, “or at least a very good time.”
How do you make the sound of birds flying for a radio broadcast? Flapping leather gloves will do. Curtis Takahashi of 蘑菇视频 Bothell’s Career Development Program talks about his side gig of providing sound effects for local live radio broadcasts.
One of the essential roles that is often not seen is the work of our campus photographers. They continue to capture the visual stories and people on campus in a time when many of us aren鈥檛 there to see them ourselves. 蘑菇视频 News asked one of our campus photographers to share some of his favorite photos he鈥檚 taken this spring, and to describe what it鈥檚 like working on campus now.
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff have come from the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Washington Native Plant Society, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Republic of Ghana.
Research projects funded for 2020 by EarthLab’s Innovation Grants Program will study how vegetation might reduce pollution, help an Alaskan village achieve safety and resilience amid climate change, organize a California river’s restoration with tribal involvement, compare practices in self-managed indigenous immigrant communities and more.
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff have come from the Association of Asian Studies, the American Society of Public Administration, the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and Cascade Public Media.
Farming and food production can be made more compatible with bird and wildlife conservation, says 蘑菇视频 ornithologist John Marzluff in his latest book, “In Search of Meadowlarks: Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land”
Recent notable books by 蘑菇视频 faculty members look at gentrification and inequity in a New York neighborhood, skin lighteners though history, female agency in Arthurian legend and biographical epitaphs in China across many centuries.
The 蘑菇视频 Asian Languages & Literature Department has been awarded a four-year $1.3 million “flagship” grant from the the Institute for International Education that will support the expanded study of Chinese language and culture across the 蘑菇视频.
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff have come from the American Education Research Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the SeaDoc Society.
Noting the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, NASA has featured 蘑菇视频-led research by Faisal Hossain that uses satellite data to help farmers manage water more efficiently.
A conversation with international studies professor Dan Chirot about his new book, “You Say You Want a Revolution: Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences.”
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.
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff include fellows named by an organization for medical and biological engineering, and a remembrance of political science professor Ellis Goldberg, who died in 2019.
A talk with James Banks, 蘑菇视频 professor emeritus of education, about his new book of essays, and three other education books are also noted.
蘑菇视频 Notebook visits with the producer of “Crossing North,” a podcast by the Scandinavian Studies Department, and notes other podcasts on campus and an appearance by David Montgomery on the podcast “Undark.”
Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff have come from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the World Register of Marine Species.
Any old fish can swim. But what fish can walk, scoot, clamber over rocks, change color and even fight to the death? That would be the frogfish. A talk with Ted Pietsch, 蘑菇视频 professor of emeritus of aquatic and fishery sciences, about his latest book, “Frogfishes: Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavioral Ecology”