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July 3, 2014

Board of Regents — July 10 meeting

The Board of Regents will hold meetings Thursday, July 10. The Board meetings will take place in the Bill & Melinda Gates Commons, CSE Room 691, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. The first committee meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m.  The Regular Board meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:05 a.m. The full schedule and agendas are available online.

July 2, 2014

‘I see it, learn it and do it’: A peek into the lives of some of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s online students

Forty-nine students from eight states are part of the inaugural group of Huskies in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s first online bachelor’s degree completion program in early childhood and family studies.

June 23, 2014

Ferroelectric switching seen in biological tissues

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers have shown that a favorable electrical property is present in a type of protein found in organs that repeatedly stretch and retract, such as the lungs, heart and arteries. These findings are the first that clearly track this phenomenon, called ferroelectricity, occurring at the molecular level in biological tissues.

Zippy, electric micro cars coming to campus for sustainability research

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is one of four institutions receiving four Innova Dash all-electric micro vehicles this summer. They will be able to communicate data such as position, speed and battery charge directly to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s network, which will provide the information to various research projects.

June 20, 2014

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students’ electric-hybrid car takes 2nd in international competition

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Advanced Vehicle Works team won second place in the international EcoCAR 2 competition this month for turning a Chevrolet Malibu into a highly efficient hybrid vehicle running on electric grid energy and biodiesel.

Sensor in eye could track pressure changes, monitor for glaucoma

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers have designed a low-power sensor that could be placed permanently in a person’s eye to track hard-to-measure changes in eye pressure. The sensor would be embedded with an artificial lens during cataract surgery and would detect pressure changes instantaneously, then transmit the data wirelessly using radio frequency waves.

Memorial June 15 for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ photographer, lecturer John Stamets

  John Stamets, longtime Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ photographer and lecturer in the Department of Architecture, died last weekend. He was 64. He is remembered as a talented photographer and a dedicated teacher and mentor to students. There will be a public celebration of Stamets’ life and work from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 15, in the courtyard on the main floor of Gould Hall. Stamets joined the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty in 1992 and ran the Architecture Photo Lab in the…

June 4, 2014

Back home again: Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ ethnomusicologists return heritage music to its roots

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Music’s Ethnomusicology Program is helping to bring roots and hill music collected decades ago by folklorist Alan Lomax back to its place of origin, with teaching materials and local ceremonies.

Arts Roundup: Drama, art — and University Symphony

As spring quarter comes to a close and summer quickly approaches, we encourage you to take advantage of some of the final arts events until next fall. Highlighting the week are a variety of performances from the School of Music, School of Drama’s “The Workroom” and the Undergraduate Theater Society’s “Dog Sees God.”