College of Arts & Sciences – Page 12

April 5, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Borders and Blackness: Communicating Belonging and Grief, Drop-in Session: Meditation Inspired By Nature, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Curating in Conversation: A Panel Series on Sharing Northwest Native Art and Art History with the Public April 12, 7:00 – 8:30 PM | Online In…

March 31, 2021

Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish under climate change, which could be good news for climate

As carbon dioxide continues to rise, multiple changes in the leaves of tropical plants may help these ecosystems perform better under climate change than previous studies had suggested.

March 29, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Music of Today: Indigo Mist, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) celebrates 50 years + Beverly Guy-Sheftall 鈥� Say Her Name: The Urgency of Black Feminism Now April 5…

March 25, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Fighting Visibility: Unpaid Gendered & Racialized Labor for the UFC, Beverly Guy-Sheftall 鈥� Say Her Name: The Urgency of Black Feminism Now, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Fighting Visibility: Unpaid Gendered & Racialized Labor for the UFC March 31, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |聽Online In the first COM Spring Colloquium, hosted by the…

March 24, 2021

Faculty/staff honors: Energy-efficient computing, Cottrell Scholar, Google Inclusion Awards

An Intel Corporation award for work to make computers more energy-efficient, a Research Corporation for Science award for chemistry research and education, and two Google inclusion awards to create technology for underrepresented populations.

March 17, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Joff Hanauer Honors Lecture Series, Museums on a Mission?, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Joff Hanauer Honors Lecture Series:聽Seattle/PNW History March 23, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |聽Online Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies invites us…

‘Forgetting Nature’: Peter Kahn offers warning in short documentary film

The message of “Forgetting Nature,” a new documentary film featuring Peter Kahn, is short but powerful: We humans are losing our connection to the natural world, at our great peril.

March 16, 2021

Relearning normalcy, focusing on the positive: 蘑菇视频 psychologist on the vaccine phase of the pandemic

蘑菇视频 psychology professor Jane Simoni discusses how COVID-19 vaccines are gradually spurring the return to normal life, and the role of positive public health messaging.

March 15, 2021

New Stroum Center podcast series ‘Jewish Questions’ explores anti-Semitism, features 蘑菇视频 faculty

“Jewish Questions,” a podcast from the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, explores issues of Jewish life, politics, history and culture

March 12, 2021

Role of solvent molecules in light-driven electron transfer revealed

An artistic depiction of small molecules moving within a solvent

In a study published Feb. 15 in Nature Chemistry, a research team led by Munira Khalil, professor and chair of chemistry at the 蘑菇视频, has captured the rapid motions of solvent molecules that impact light-driven electron transfer in a molecular complex for the first time. This 聽information could help researchers learn how to control energy flow in molecules, potentially leading to more efficient clean energy sources.

March 11, 2021

Mindfulness program in campus dorms, groups improved students鈥� mental health

Students standing silently, eyes closed, in a yoga or meditation class

Amid a growing mental health crisis among teens and young adults nationwide, a pilot program teaching mindfulness and coping techniques to students at the 蘑菇视频 has helped lower stress and improve emotional well-being.

March 10, 2021

Helpful behavior during pandemic tied to recognizing common humanity

Woman gives a box of masks to a donation drive at a 蘑菇视频 parking lot.

A new 蘑菇视频 study finds that an identification with all humanity, as opposed to identification with a geographic area like a country or town, predicts whether someone will engage in 鈥減rosocial鈥� behaviors particular to the pandemic, such as donating extra masks or coming to the aid of a sick person.

March 9, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Bambitchell: Dolphins, ships and other vessels, Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds:聽Ethiopia in Theory, Theory as Memoir March 17, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |聽Online Can Tizita, the Amharic term for memory…

March 4, 2021

Can鈥檛 solve a riddle? The answer might lie in knowing what doesn鈥檛 work

Scrabble tiles forming a word with one tile missing

With the help of about 200 human puzzle-takers, a computer model and functional MRI images, 蘑菇视频 researchers have learned more about the processes of reasoning and decision making, pinpointing the brain pathway that springs into action when problem-solving goes south.

March 2, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: 蘑菇视频 Museums Reopen, Uncharted Waters, 蘑菇视频 Dance Presents, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 2021 Scheidel Lecture: Horror Noire 鈥� Blacks in American Horror March 10, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |聽Online The Department of Communication is thrilled to welcome acclaimed…

Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance

Recent honors and achievements by 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff include a grant for field research in the Middle East, a staffer’s play being streamed by a Seattle theater and a professor’s cartoon remembrance of a relative lost to COVID-19.

February 24, 2021

Scientists describe earliest primate fossils

An artistic rendering of an ancient primate eating fruit in a tree shortly after the extinction of the dinosaurs

A new study published Feb. 24 in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents the earliest-known fossil evidence of primates. These creatures lived less than 150,000 years after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs and saw the rise of mammals.

February 23, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Fermented Face with Candice Lin, After Democracy: A Conversation with Zizi Papacharissi, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Fermented Face with Candice Lin March 2, 1:00 – 2:30 PM |聽Online Fermented Face聽is a workshop聽sponsored by the Henry Art Gallery with artist Candice Lin聽that uses…

February 18, 2021

Faculty/staff honors: Polymer Physics Prize, anthropology dissertation award

The Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society and a dissertation award from the Society for American Archaeology.

February 17, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Katz Distinguished Lecture: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Contemporary Environmental Issues In Taiwan, Global Perspectives on Restorative Justice & Race, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Joff Hanauer Honors Lecture Series:聽U.S. Foreign Policy and American Policing February 23, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |聽Online Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor in the Jackson School of…

February 16, 2021

蘑菇视频 books in brief: Historian Anand Yang explores British ‘penal transportation’; world music textbooks by Patricia Shehan Campbell

Historian Anand Yang writes about the British history of shipping of convicted criminals to other continents; and new world music education books from ethnomusicologist Patricia Shehan Campbell.

February 10, 2021

List of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists includes seven from 蘑菇视频

Seven 蘑菇视频 scientists are included in Cell Mentor鈥檚 list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists, published in December 2020. Cell Mentor is a collaborative resource between Cell Press and Cell Signaling Technology.

February 9, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Monsen Photography Lecture, Meany On Screen:聽Martha Graham Dance Company, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Monsen Photography Lecture: Deborah Willis February 18, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |聽Online In 鈥淪taying Engaged: Social Protest, Migrations, and Responses in Art,鈥� sponsored by the Henry…

Faculty/staff honors: Holocaust commemoration, new compositions, a top local album of 2020

Recent honors and achievements by 蘑菇视频 faculty include a keynote address at a national Holocaust commemoration event, an album of new compositions and a best-of-2020 musical nod from the Seattle Times.

Limiting warming to 2 C requires emissions reductions 80% above Paris Agreement targets

Even if all countries meet their Paris Agreement goals for reducing emissions, Earth has only a 5% chance of staying below 2 C warming this century, a previous study showed. But reductions about 80% more ambitious, or an average of 1.8% drop in emissions per year rather than 1% per year, would be enough to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal.

February 8, 2021

蘑菇视频 physicist pens math-free tour of quantum mechanics and technology

Morales has authored a seven-part series for Ars Technica on quantum mechanics for a general audience. One article in the series is rolling out each week from Jan. 10 to Feb. 21. Morales sat down with 蘑菇视频 News to talk about the series, quantum mechanics and what he hopes the public can learn about this seemingly odd and possibly intimidating realm of science.

February 4, 2021

‘Audeo’ teaches artificial intelligence to play the piano

A 蘑菇视频 team created Audeo, a system that can generate music using only visual cues of someone playing the piano.

February 2, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Patty Hayes 鈥� The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impacts of Systemic Racism, Book Launch: Union by Law, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 In case you missed it: Reimagining the Humanities Recorded event |聽Online What can Homer’s Odyssey teach STEM students? What new journeys can you take during a…

February 1, 2021

蘑菇视频 books in brief: African American political theory, philosophy and migration, data science for health

Notable recent books written or edited by 蘑菇视频 faculty include an exploration of African American political theory, a book on philosophy and migration and a textbook on health data science.

January 27, 2021

Undergrad鈥檚 first novel, optioned for a movie, features big robots and even bigger feelings

蘑菇视频 student Zoe Mikuta鈥檚 first book, 鈥淕earbreakers,鈥� is set to come out June 29. Categorized in the young adult genre, it tells the story of Eris and Sona, who live under a tyrannical regime enforced by 100-foot-tall mecha robots. She’s sold the film rights to 鈥淕earbreakers鈥� and is currently working on its sequel.

ArtSci Roundup: Meany On Screen:聽Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Maria Gaspar: Disappearance Landscape, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Outpost: Words and Music February 1, 5:30 PM PST |聽Online Carrie Shaw, 蘑菇视频 School of Music faculty member and Mellon Faculty Fellow, will premier three commissions…

On nights before a full moon, people go to bed later and sleep less, study shows

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 蘑菇视频, observed these variations in both the time of sleep onset and the duration of sleep in urban and rural settings 鈥� 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鈥檚 access to electricity, though the variations are less pronounced in individuals living in urban environments.

Purported phosphine on Venus more likely to be ordinary sulfur dioxide, new study shows

An image of the planet Venus, showing its thick atmosphere.

A 蘑菇视频-led team has revisited and comprehensively reinterpreted the radio telescope observations underlying a widely reported 2019 claim that phosphine gas was present in the atmosphere of Venus. In a paper accepted to the Astrophysical Journal, they report that sulfur dioxide, a common gas in the atmosphere of Venus, is likely what was detected instead of phosphine.

January 22, 2021

The 7 rocky planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 may be made of similar stuff

An image showing three illustrations of potential interiors of the exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 star system.

A study accepted by the Planetary Science Journal shows that the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system share similar densities. That could mean they all contain roughly the same ratio of materials thought to be common to rocky planets, such as iron, oxygen, magnesium and silicon — though they appear to differ notably from Earth.

January 20, 2021

‘Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems,’ co-edited by 蘑菇视频’s Robert Pekkanen, out in paperback, online

"The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems," published in 2018, is coming out in paperback in February from Oxford University Press. The entire book is already available online through 蘑菇视频 Libraries.

A book co-edited by Robert Pekkanen of the 蘑菇视频’s Jackson School of International Studies brings together top scholars to study the origins and effects of electoral systems in the United States and other democracies.

ArtSci Roundup: Meany On Screen: Kod艒, The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicanx Masculinities, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Meany On Screen:聽Kod艒 January 22 – 29 |聽Online Japan鈥檚 legendary Kod艒 drummers return to Meany Center virtually with KODO:聽Legacy聽and The Art of Apprenticeship.聽Drumming troupe Kod艒, whose…