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October 5, 2021

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ joins USAID’s $125M project to detect emerging viruses with pandemic potential

To better identify and prevent future pandemics, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has become a partner in a five-year global, collaborative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development. The newly launched Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens – Viral Zoonoses, or DEEP VZN project, has approximately $125 million in anticipated funding and will be led by Washington State University. The effort will build scientific capacity in partner countries to safely detect and characterize viruses which have the potential to spill…

October 4, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Math Bass: a picture stuck in the mirror, The World of Noh Drama with Takeda Munenori, and More

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, lectures, and more. Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-IT.  Math Bass: a picture stuck in the mirror October 16 – March 6 | Henry Art Gallery Los Angeles-based artist Math Bass (b. 1981, New York, NY) will create a site-specific installation at the Henry Art Gallery featuring a series of recent oil paintings…

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Shyam Gollakota named 2021 Moore Inventor Fellow

Shyam Gollakota, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has taken inspiration from nature’s tiniest creatures, creating inventions that allow humans to use technology to go where they haven’t gone before. He is being celebrated for those inventions as a 2021 Moore Inventor Fellow.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ study provides rare window into work life of app-based drivers during pandemic

When you get into the car of the app-based driver you just tapped up on your phone, you expect and hope the driver and the car are safe and capable of getting you where you need to go. Apps rate drivers, which you can see. But what if the driver is sick? What if the car has a mechanical problem? What if the driver has simply had a bad day? What you may not have realized is that the driver…

September 28, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Fossil Costume Contest, Packaged Black, and More

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, lectures, and more. Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-IT.  Fossil Costume Contest October 2 – 31 | Burke Museum Celebrate the 12th anniversary of National Fossil Day with the Burke Museum’s Fossil Costume Contest! Draw your costume inspiration from the museum’s collection, or the National Park Service National Fossil Day…

Alzheimer’s data center at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ awarded $35 million to continue mission of free, global access

For researchers around the world working to understand and treat Alzheimer’s and eventually find a cure, data from clinical exams of patients suffering from this complex neurodegenerative disease needs to be standardized and accessible. Since 1999, that’s what the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC), housed in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, has been doing. With funding from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ center began collecting data from another set of centers housed in…

New NSF-funded institute to harness AI for accelerated discoveries in physics, astronomy and neuroscience

On Sept. 28, the National Science Foundation announced $15 million, five-year grant to integrate AI tools into the scientific research and discovery process. The award will fund the Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery Institute — or A3D3 Institute — a partnership of nine universities, led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.

September 27, 2021

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Climate Impacts Group, partner organizations launch the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Climate Impacts Group, along with nine community, nonprofit and university partners, is launching a program of community-led, justice-oriented climate adaptation work across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative will be founded with a five-year, $5.6 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. The program will be one of eleven across the country funded through NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments program.

New Student Convocation on Tuesday afternoon opens Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s 2021-22 academic year

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Associate Professor Wendy Barrington will be the featured speaker at the university’s 38th annual New Student Convocation. Barrington has joint appointments in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing in the School of Nursing and the departments of Epidemiology and of Health Systems and Population Health in the School of Public Health.

September 24, 2021

Video: Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students move into residence halls

Student move-in days are a yearly event at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, generating excitement among families and fueled by student volunteers. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 10,000 students living in residence halls for the 2021-2022 academic year are moving in September 21 to 24. 

September 23, 2021

Video: Arsenic makes these south Puget Sound fish unsafe to eat

Researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma have been studying arsenic levels in the mud, water and in creatures from lakes in the south Puget Sound area. Eating contaminated fish or snails from these lakes could lead to health risks.

September 21, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Henry Art Gallery Public Opening, Dawg Daze, and More

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-IT.  Faculty lecture: Audrey Desjardins, “Data Imaginaries: Between Home, People and Technology” September 30, 5:30pm | Online via Zoom Celebrate…

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, Burke researchers discover four dinosaurs in Montana: Fieldwork pieces together life at the end of ‘Dinosaur Era’

A team of paleontologists from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and its Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture excavated four dinosaurs in northeastern Montana this summer. The four dinosaur fossils are: the ilium — or hip bones — of an ostrich-sized theropod, the group of meat-eating, two-legged dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex and raptors; the hips and legs of a duck-billed dinosaur; a pelvis, toe claw and limbs from another theropod that could be a rare ostrich-mimic Anzu, or possibly a new species; and a Triceratops specimen consisting of its skull and other fossilized bones.

ArtSci Roundup: Audrey Desjardins: Data Imaginaries, What is Noh? A lecture by Paul Atkins, and More

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-IT.  Audrey Desjardins: Data Imaginaries September 21 – October 9 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to present Audrey Desjardins:…

September 14, 2021

Returning to the U District: Recovering from the pandemic with more changes ahead

Hardship, change and resilience — that’s been the experience of the U District community during the pandemic, just as it’s been the experience of us all. As students, faculty and staff return to campus in September, they are going to find that the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s front door looks different — and it is on the precipice of even bigger changes to come.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ part of $25M NSF-funded effort to retrieve Earth’s oldest ice core

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ glaciologists will join colleagues from around the country in a new effort to retrieve an ice core more than 1 million years old from East Antarctica, to better understand the history of our planet’s climate and predict future changes.

September 9, 2021

NSF to fund revolutionary center for optoelectronic, quantum technologies

The National Science Foundation has announced it will fund a new endeavor to bring atomic-level precision to the devices and technologies that underpin much of modern life, and will transform fields like information technology in the decades to come. The five-year, $25 million Science and Technology Center grant will found the Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand — or IMOD — a collaboration of scientists and engineers at 11 universities led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.

September 8, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Faculty Seminar: A Conversation with Samuel Wasser of Conservation Canines, Hostile Terrain 94, and More

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-IT.  Faculty Seminar: A Conversation with Samuel Wasser of Conservation Canines September 14, 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Online The Center…

September 7, 2021

Research, education hub on ‘coastal resiliency’ will focus on earthquakes, coastal erosion and climate change

The new Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub, led by Oregon State University and the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, will study coastal hazards and community resilience. The National Science Foundation awarded $18.9 million for the hub over five years.

September 2, 2021

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineer explains how the redesigned levee system in New Orleans helped mitigate the impact of Hurricane Ida

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News asked Michael Motley, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, to explain how levees protect cities like New Orleans. 

September 1, 2021

Mary Gresch named Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Senior Vice President for University Advancement

Mary Gresch has been named senior vice president for advancement at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce announced this week. Gresch’s appointment is effective Sept. 1.

ArtSci Roundup: Bodies of Discovery – Naomi Fisher: Thermodynamic Flower, Works Cited: Experiments in Dismantling Texts, and More

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-IT.  Works Cited: experiments in dismantling texts with Elaine Cameron-Weir and Amaranth Borsuk September 11, 1:00 – 3:00 PM | Henry…

August 25, 2021

Volcanic eruptions may have spurred first ‘whiffs’ of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere

A new analysis of 2.5-billion-year-old rocks from Australia finds that volcanic eruptions may have stimulated population surges of marine microorganisms, creating the first puffs of oxygen into the atmosphere. This would change existing stories of Earth’s early atmosphere, which assumed that most changes in the early atmosphere were controlled by geologic or chemical processes.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, Carnegie Mellon to pioneer platforms that harness astrophysical data to unravel the universe’s mysteries

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Carnegie Mellon University have announced an expansive, multi-year collaboration to create new software platforms to analyze large astronomical datasets generated by the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, which will be carried out by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile. The open-source platforms are part of the new LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing — known as LINCC — and will fundamentally change how scientists use modern computational methods to make sense of big data.

August 24, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Elaine Cameron-Weir: STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH, Fossils Uncovered, and More

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ live webcams of Red Square and the quad. Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-IT.  Elaine Cameron-Weir: STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH Through September 12 | Henry Art Gallery In her sculpture, Elaine Cameron-Weir (b. 1985,…

August 20, 2021

With extreme heat increasingly common, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ expert calls for urgent planning to protect health in new Lancet series

In a new series on increasingly common extreme heat waves and their impact on human health published Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ climate change and health expert joined more than a dozen international experts to warn that we better prepare. “The preventable heat stress and deaths during this summer’s heat waves highlight the importance of developing a regional heat action plan. A heat wave early warning and response plan that includes all relevant services,…