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Automobiles — and the planning and infrastructure to support them — are making our cities sick, says an international group of researchers now publishing a three-part series in the British medical journal The Lancet.

A new proposed draft Campus Master Plan for 2018 sees the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Seattle campus growing up rather than out — building a little higher, filling in with more density, not expanding its borders, helping to ease transportation flow and creating big new green spaces. 2018 draft Campus Master Plan — opportunities for public comment: Online open house: Oct. 12, noon to 1 p.m. Sign up online. Open house: October 18, noon to 2 p.m. Cascade Room, Haggett Hall…

The Livable City Year program will formally celebrate the start of its first year at 10 a.m. Oct. 6 at wÇ�É«Ç�bÊ”altxÊ· – Intellectual House on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s campus in a kickoff event open to all. Professors leading Livable City Year courses this fall will talk about their projects, followed by time for Q&A.

As the fourth-fastest growing city in the United States, Seattle faces important questions in its quest to remain a resilient and sustainable community. Can we build to withstand natural disasters, reduce environmental toxins as consumption rises, meet urban transportation challenges so food, supplies and consumer products can get where they need to go? Over the next month, College of Engineering’s annual fall lecture series will feature faculty focusing on these questions and developing technologies to build more resilient urban communities….

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.

All across the world, millions of people will be practicing their earthquake-preparedness on Oct. 20. The event — called the Great ShakeOut — will commence at 10:20 a.m. for those participating at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and across the state. It is an opportunity for people to practice what they should do in the event of an earthquake: Drop, cover and hold on.

The Bernard Osher Foundation has announced a $1 million gift to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ (OLLI-Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ). The Institute offers a diverse array of non-credit courses and activities for people 50 and older, giving these adults access to continuing education at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ. The Osher Foundation’s gift takes the form of a $950,000 endowment and $50,000 bridge grant to support the ongoing work of OLLI-Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ. It’s the second $1 million award the Foundation has given…

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.

World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10, is a reminder that we all have a role to play in preventing suicide. Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention, based in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Social Work and led by Professor Jennifer Stuber, is offering a film and two suicide prevention workshops on Sept. 10.

Most landscape architecture projects conjure up an image of a permanent structure meant to be experienced indefinitely. But for Britton Shepard, a 2016 graduate of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s landscape architecture master’s program, it means exploring the temporary nature of urban terrains. Earlier this year, Shepard brought life back to a vacant and demolished lot in the University District — although it was only a short-lived endeavor. Shepard’s thesis project “Site 1121: Field Notesâ€� centered around a Washington State Employee…

The world’s attention is now on Proxima Centauri b, a possibly Earth-like planet about 4.22 light-years away. It’s in its star’s habitable zone — but could it in fact be habitable? If so, the planet evolved very different than Earth, say researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

Faculty members from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ College of Built Environments, Jackson School of International Studies and departments of French and Italian studies and history will team up in 2017 to give a new, three-week course for university and college instructors on urban environmental humanities.

Visitors to Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory are in for a stinking treat, courtesy of the Department of Biology at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ. The conservatory has taken in a young corpse lily, affectionately known as Dougsley, which is set to blossom this week or next.

The following is a statement from Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce on the shooting of four individuals in Mukilteo this weekend, three of whom – Anna Bui, Jordan Ebner, and Jake Long – were killed, and one of whom – Will Kramer – was wounded and is at Harborview Medical Center. Bui was a student at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell, while Kramer is a student on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Seattle campus. “Words are inadequate to address the bloodshed that occurred this…

A new study from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies suggests that Seattle and Washington state could invite development of more affordable housing by easing the legal risk — or the appearance of risk — in condominium development, construction, liability and insurance.