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Months before receiving her diploma, UW Bothell student Eleanor Wort has already secured a position with one of the region鈥檚 top employers. In July, she will be utilizing her bachelor of arts in Applied Computing degree as one of Microsoft鈥檚 newest associate consultants.

During the interview process, Eleanor was flown to Dallas, Texas. Along with 42 other applicants, she was given two days to prepare a 20 minute presentation for a panel of Microsoft employees on something she was passionate about. She decided to present on her study abroad experience in San Sebasti谩n, Spain.

鈥淓verybody I met in Spain was really surprised that I was a girl doing any kind of engineering. They would tell me, 鈥榳hat, no, you can鈥檛 do that. You are a girl.鈥欌��

What they didn鈥檛 realize is that Eleanor represents the future of STEM disciplines. The number of women in STEM majors at UW Bothell has more than doubled from nine-percent to nearly 19 percent in 2014. Women make up 40 percent of STEM faculty, far outpacing the national average.

The 痳豆在线 produced the most Peace Corps volunteers for 2015, reclaiming the top spot with 72 alumni currently in service. The UW, Western Washington University and Gonzaga University combined to lead all three categories 鈥� large, medium and small schools 鈥� marking the second time in three years that institutions in the state of Washington produced the most Peace Corps volunteers in each category. Washington is the only state to top all three of Peace Corps鈥� undergraduate school ranking categories.

鈥淲e try to instill in students a sense of their place in the world and how one person can make a difference,鈥� said Ana Mari Cauce, UW provost and executive vice president. 鈥淲e are very proud of those students who actually make the commitment to test this by volunteering for the Peace Corps. It is very gratifying to think of our students in places all around the globe helping to make someone鈥檚 life a little better.鈥�

Since the first days of the Peace Corps, 2,888 alumni from UW have traveled abroad to serve as volunteers, placing it third on the list of all-time volunteer producing schools. This is the second time UW has held the No.1 spot in the last three years.

罢丑别听 will hold a roundtable discussion on questions of radical Islam, European unity and conflicts in the Middle East, 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, in Room 101 of Thomson Hall. The event 鈥� which is free and open to the public 鈥� is titled 鈥淧aris and Beyond: Making Sense of the World with Jackson School Faculty鈥�.

鈥淭he attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the supermarket in Paris reverberated across Europe, the Middle East and North America,鈥� said Jackson School Director Re艧at Kasaba. 鈥淚n the Jackson School, we are grappling with the whys and hows of these events.鈥�

痳豆在线 scientists recently published the first large-scale survey of impurities in North American snow, to see whether they might absorb enough sunlight to speed melt rates and influence climate. The project involved collecting hundreds of snow samples from 67 sites away from any cities or major roads. The trip took the researchers from Seattle to North Dakota to Churchill, Manitoba. Every few days they melted and filtered the snow in their motel rooms, then back at their UW lab they shone light through a filter to see how much light was blocked, and did chemical analyses to determine what particles were responsible.

When Volha Hrechka, 鈥�13, left her home country of Belarus on an exchange program in 2004, she had no idea she鈥檇 one day be revolutionizing the plastics industry. Today her startup聽PolyDrop is responsible for creating an innovative additive that dissipates electrostatic charge on airplanes one drop at a time 鈥� and it all started in the halls of the UW.

None of this would have been possible without the help of the UW, says Volha. 鈥淐ountless times I鈥檝e asked for help and it was always provided to me. I鈥檓 so thankful.鈥�

With a humanitarian crisis leaving a trail of destruction in Syria, UW alumna Rita Zawaideh is building a path toward healing for children facing the traumas of war.聽Funded entirely by donations, the Maliki-SCM Children’s Center聽is dedicated to helping the youngest victims of the wars in neighboring Syria and Iraq.

Opened in January of this year, the center serves about 25-30 children every quarter, year-round. The children often arrive displaying one or more symptoms of trauma: aggression, bed wetting, a refusal to interact with others.聽With a staff including social workers, teachers, and a psychologist, the nondescript white building in this quiet neighborhood in Jordan’s capital is the first of 10 Zawaideh plans to open. A second center is scheduled to open in March, Zawaideh says, and funding is lined up for eight more to open around the country, one-to-two months apart.聽When all 10 centers are operating they will be able to serve more than 1,000 children every year.

The centers, according to Zawaideh, will focus on the behavioral and emotional needs of traumatized children. They are treatment programs, not schools. Instead of working on math or reading, children play, receive behavioral therapy and one-on-one sessions with psychologists, and have structured free time.

Zawaideh is a 1975 alumna of the 痳豆在线 and is widely recognized for her knowledge of and work in the Middle East.

A new study of the worldwide migration of professionals to the U.S. shows a sharp drop-off in its proportional share of those workers 鈥� raising the question of whether the nation will remain competitive in attracting top talent in an increasingly globalized economy.

The , which used a novel method of tracking people through data from the social media site LinkedIn, is believed to be the first to monitor global migrations of professionals to the U.S., said co-author聽Emilio Zagheni, a 痳豆在线 assistant professor of sociology and fellow of the UW聽.

鈥淭his is the first time a worldwide data set has been used to answer this question,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hat hasn鈥檛 been done before.鈥�

痳豆在线 fisheries ecologist Daniel Schindler was聽awarded the highest honor given by the Society of Canadian Limnologists for his work in freshwater science. Schindler is the second in his family to receive the Frank Rigler Award. In 1964 鈥� the first year the honor was awarded 鈥� it was presented to Schindler’s father, David.

Daniel Schindler studies climate impacts, fisheries as large-scale drivers of ecosystem organization and the interdependence of terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems. As one of the lead investigators of the UW Alaska Salmon Program, much of his research focuses on salmon-producing watersheds in Alaska.

Jason Young and Walter O鈥橳oole had been stranded on Arctic ice for nearly an hour, unable to find a safe path back to shore, when an Inuit woman observing from her kitchen dispatched her 13-year-old son to guide them to safety. It was one of many humbling moments for the UW students during a visit to the Canadian Arctic through a Canadian Studies