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Sleep cycles in people oscillate during the 29.5-day lunar cycle: In the days leading up to a full moon, people go to sleep later in the evening and sleep for shorter periods of time. The team, led by researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, observed these variations in both the time of sleep onset and the duration of sleep in urban and rural settings — from Indigenous communities in northern Argentina to college students in Seattle, a city of more than 750,000. They saw the oscillations regardless of an individual’s access to electricity, though the variations are less pronounced in individuals living in urban environments.

When someone has the coronavirus, some of it is shed in their fecal matter. So what we flush has become useful to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers developing a new testing method for COVID-19 in sewage. They’re looking at wastewater that flows from people’s homes, sampling it at manholes and neighborhood pump stations before it goes to sewage treatment plants.

This fall, about three dozen people signed up to help count the salmon in their local streams and creeks. Recruited by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell teaching professor Jeff Jensen, these volunteers agree to observe a stream location for at least half an hour per week (while taking coronavirus precautions) to gather vital information about salmon in streams that flow into Lake Washington and the Sammamish River.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce delivered her annual address to the community Oct. 12 at wÇ�É«Ç�bÊ”altxÊ· – Intellectual House on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campus. Highlights of the speech are reflected in this video. The audience was entirely virtual this year in accordance with public health guidelines.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty member Ian Schnee, associate teaching professor in the Department of Philosophy, was the featured speaker at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s 37th annual New Student Convocation. The virtual ceremony was held Sept. 27 and was livestreamed to audiences around the world. A recording is available here.

Around 4,000 students are moving into the residence halls at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ this week. This number is less than half the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s normal residence hall capacity. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of special precautions are being taken to ensure minimal contact and proper physical distancing during the move-in process.

The future of our health and the health of the communities we live in relies, in many ways, on students in the health sciences. The education and experiences that future doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, social workers and public health experts receive will to a large degree shape how those professionals work and work together when solving problems affecting our health. And while the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s highly ranked health sciences schools have long focused on interdisciplinary education and training students…

With the nation debating its response to COVID-19 and witnessing protests against racial injustice and police violence, undergraduate students enrolled in “Visual Anthropology of Protest Music� examined how communities use music to share their lived experiences and confront oppression.

New research led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ finds that sleep problems in a baby’s first 12 months may not only precede an autism diagnosis, but also may be associated with altered growth trajectory in a key part of the brain, the hippocampus.

With the university’s spring quarter beginning Monday, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ staff and student workers in the Student Technology Loan Program spent the week-long spring break gathering, checking and cleaning some 300 laptops and tablets for distribution – and, for the first time, shipping many of those devices to the homes of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students across the country.

When the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ moved to online instruction March 9, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Facilities Services developed a three-week disinfection plan. Custodial staff are now working through more than 500 classrooms, lecture halls, libraries, auditoriums and shared spaces, with similar efforts under way in Bothell and Tacoma.

This wasn’t how LaShawnDa Pittman expected to give her final exam review: At her kitchen table, laptop open, coffee cup at the ready, her 12-year-old Chihuahua named Espresso by her side. But as the first week of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s shift to online classes drew to a close, Pittman, an assistant professor of American Ethnic Studies, was talking with her students over the conferencing platform Zoom, first to answer logistical questions about the upcoming exam, then to provide a…

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce sat down with Vice President of Student Life Denzil Suite for a candid conversation about how COVID-19 is affecting campus operations, why classes will no longer meet in person for the rest of the quarter and whether a student-led petition had an impact on the decision.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce, joined by Dr. Geoff Gottlieb, head of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases, met with the members of the ASÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Student Senate on March 3 to share the most current information and take questions about the University’s response and preparations for the novel coronavirus.