Three 痳豆在线 professors are among the 178 scholars, artists, and scientists from the U.S. and Canada recognized this year by the Guggenheim Foundation.
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The 痳豆在线 is聽ranked No. 23 in the nation for best value by Forbes, according to a list released this week. The rankings are based on several factors including聽quality (based on the 2015 Forbes聽Top Colleges ranking), drop-out risk,聽average time to graduate, tuition and post-graduation salaries and skills. The magazine said聽the top colleges are “mostly West Coast, public and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-oriented.” Among public institutions, the UW is ranked No. 14. The UW is No. 9 among…
What do scholars and academics mean when they talk about “difference”? The 痳豆在线 Simpson Center for the Humanities and Center for Communication, Difference & Equity will hold an interdisciplinary daylong conference April 8 to study such questions, focusing in particular on how difference looks and sounds.
The 痳豆在线 will create an undergraduate minor in real estate studies thanks to a $5.4 million gift from retired Windermere Real Estate founder John Jacobi and his wife, Rosalind. The Jacobis鈥� gift will also support two new endowed faculty chairs at the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies in the UW鈥檚 College of Built Environments.
Alison Duvall talks about the geology of the UW light rail station in a narration to accompany the station’s art installation, which was created by UW alumnus Leo Saul Berk.
Construction started this month on the Washington Park Arboretum’s new Arboretum Loop Trail, one of the largest improvement projects to date in the Seattle public garden.
The fall 2015 Paris terrorist attacks sparked heated social media debates about Islam. A researcher now with the UW Information School, with collaborators, analyzed millions of tweets after those attacks and found most tweets actually expressed support for Islam and Muslims.
UW political scientist Rebecca Thorpe’s book “The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending,” has been honored by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation 鈥� the second award the well-received book has earned.
For the 22nd time in the past 23 years, the 痳豆在线聽ranked as the No. 1 primary care medical school聽in the country, according to聽U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2017 Best Graduate School rankings聽released Tuesday. The rural medicine and family medicine programs have also led the nation since those rankings began in 1992. In a new ranking this year, the UW’s doctor of nursing practice program is first among 149 programs nationwide. See聽all UW Medicine and other health sciences graduate…
Washington Sea Grant was recently awarded nearly $900,000 to help coastal communities protect against marine hazards, including tsunamis, winter storms and sea-level rise.
With the Florida presidential primary a day away, Joe Janes is recalling the time of butterfly ballots and “hanging chads” 鈥� the presidential election of 2000 鈥� in the latest installment of his podcast series, Documents that Changed the World. In the podcasts, Janes, a professor in the UW Information School, explores the origin and often evolving meaning of historical documents, both famous and less known. “This one has been on my list for a long time,” Janes said. “But…
Members of the UW community are invited to a free daylong conference for technology professionals at the third-annual UW TechConnect Conference聽March 24. Sean Mooney, a professor of biomedical informatics and medical education and UW Medicine chief research information officer, will kick off the day with a keynote presentation starting at 8:30 a.m. Internet2 Senior VP and Chief Innovation Officer Florence Hudson will lead a morning session on future-proofing your career and environment through diversity and inclusion. Over 35 speakers from…
When Delilah was diagnosed with a congenital liver disorder, her mother Tabitha, recalls, 鈥淒octors told us she wasn鈥檛 going to make it.鈥� She鈥檇 need a new liver. She spent five months in Seattle Children鈥檚 Hospital waiting. It was a time of uncertainty and worry, but doctors eventually found a donor. Along the way, she qualified for a wish through Make-A-Wish庐 Alaska and Washington. Delilah wished to go on a cruise. Help Make-A-Wish grant a wish to every qualified child by…
The UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is hosting its second-annual contest for undergraduate and high school students in Washington to create videos about what climate change means to them, in three minutes or less.
BlackPast.org, the online reference guide to African-American history started by 痳豆在线 history professor Quintard Taylor, is getting an executive director — Chieko Phillips — and a website redesign.
The evolving nature of the public sector will be the topic when professionals and scholars from the UW’s Evans School for Public Policy & Governance and around the world gather in Seattle March 17-22 for the 77th annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration.
A 痳豆在线 team won first place in a science communication video contest that culminated during the recent Ocean Sciences Meeting.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the 痳豆在线 a three-year, $750,000 grant to support guest artists in developing new works, and to better integrate arts disciplines into the broader university curriculum.
The grant will support a Creative Fellowships Initiative, under which guest performing artist fellows will be recruited from around the world for one- to three-year residencies in dance, music and theater.
Investigate a real ice core from Greenland, survey microbes from the coldest parts of the world, explore an Arctic ice camp and meet with polar scientists 鈥� many of whom are from the 痳豆在线. It鈥檚 all part of Polar Science Weekend, returning to Seattle’s Pacific Science Center March 4-6. The three-day event features interactive exhibits and opportunities to talk with top polar scientists who work in some of the most remote and challenging places on Earth. New this…
New research from the UW-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory will help astronomers better identify 鈥� and thus rule out 鈥� “false positives” in the search for life beyond Earth.
Home sale prices were up fractionally in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to the third quarter but up 9.7 percent compared with the previous year, according to the UW’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies.
University Book Store announced Thursday聽that it has opted to close its store in the University鈥檚 South Campus building and move its products and services to the flagship store on University Way Northeast. Though the relocation date has yet to be determined, University Book Store is planning for sometime before June. “Our lease was up for renewal, so it was time to evaluate whether we were successfully fulfilling our mission to provide our students with the materials they needed to succeed,”聽said…
The 痳豆在线 was ranked No. 7 by Business First, a Buffalo-based publication,聽for聽America’s top 10 best public colleges and universities, the publication released Tuesday, Feb. 23. Business First, owned by American City Business Journals,聽used a 20-part formula based on academic excellence, prestige, affordability, diversity and economic strength to calculate each of the 477 participating universities’ scores. Out of the six Washington institutions included in the report, the UW ranked first, following by Washington State University (No. 112). UC Berkeley…
The cherry trees in the Quad at UW will likely be in full bloom the week of March 14.
The latest installment of Information School professor Joe Janes’ podcast series Documents that Changed the World discusses 168 powerful words condemning slavery that were excised from the Declaration of Independence at the last minute.
Just like a strong financial portfolio contains shares from different companies, the diverse subpopulations of herring from different bays and beaches around Puget Sound collectively keep the total population more stable, a new study finds.
The 痳豆在线 and Gonzaga University have signed an agreement to continue, enhance and expand medical education and research in Spokane.
A more efficient and clean wood-burning cookstove 鈥� developed by Vashon Island’s BURN Design Lab and UW mechanical engineers 鈥� will reduce the amount of fuel families need to collect or buy by 55 percent. It will also reduce exposure to the harmful particulate pollution produced by traditional cooking flames.
UW employees are invited to attend an open forum March 2 to learn more about the university鈥檚 plans to create an HR/Payroll Integrated Service Center.
The 痳豆在线 is one of the top producers of Fulbright students for 2015-16, according to lists released Monday in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Benjamin Gardner, associate professor in UW Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and chair of the Jackson School of International Studies’ African Studies Program, discusses his new book “Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism.”
David Levy of the UW Information School discusses his new book, “Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to our Digital Lives,” published in January by Yale University Press.
For the second year in a row, the 痳豆在线 produced聽the most Peace Corps volunteers among large universities with聽72 Huskies currently serving around the world. The UW is also ranked No. 4 among graduate schools with 16 alumni currently volunteering. 鈥淐ommunity engagement 鈥� here and across the globe 鈥� is part of what makes a UW student鈥檚 experience the best it can be. One way our students give back to the community is by volunteering for the Peace Corps,鈥�…
A new program based at the 痳豆在线 will bring together educational institutions, K-12 teachers and informal education organizations to inspire, teach and recruit the next generation of students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The new Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pipeline, or NESSP, has begun a $10 million,聽five-year cooperative agreement with NASA that broadens existing programs and launches new efforts throughout Washington, Oregon and Montana, with a particular focus on underserved and underrepresented communities. “The goal is…
The Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction, through its education partner the 痳豆在线, is deploying an oceanographic observing buoy in Bellingham Bay this week that will allow Northwest Indian College students both hands-on experience with the technology as well as the ability to study the data from their computers, through the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems, NANOOS.
The 痳豆在线 campus already is home to a lot of great public art. Now there are two additions to the campus collection 鈥� one at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library and the other at w菨色菨b蕯altx史 – Intellectual House.
At 10:30 a.m. Friday, Rachael Lincoln leaned slowly out into space, hands at her sides 鈥� and then walked down the side of Meany Hall for the Performing Arts.
People expressing the wish to resist constant online connectivity 鈥� dubbed “pushback” by 痳豆在线 Information School researchers 鈥� is manifested as powerfully in images as in text, further study has found.
A UW dance faculty member will walk down the side of Meany Hall on Friday, Feb. 5, performing a dance piece titled “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building” by famed choreographer Trisha Brown, a retrospective of whose work is being performed Feb. 4-6 on the Meany stage.
In the Iowa caucuses, expectations are nearly as important as votes and front-runners must watch their backs, say 痳豆在线 professors who are closely watching this year’s presidential race. The 2016 Iowa caucuses will be held Monday, Feb. 1, pitting Democratic leader Hillary Clinton against Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Martin O’Malley and Republican mogul and mouth Donald Trump against Sen. Ted Cruz among a lineup of largely ineffective opponents. We asked political scientists Mark A. Smith and John…