It’s a foggy fall morning, and University of Washington researcher Susan Dickerson-Lange pokes her index finger into the damp soil beneath a canopy of second-growth conifers. The tree cover is dense here, and little light seeps in among the understory of the Cedar River Municipal Watershed about 30 miles east ...
Snow Melts Faster Under Trees Than in Open Areas in Mild Climates
Posted On Friday, November 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Cedar River Municipal Watershed, Jessica Lundquist, Susan Dickerson-Lange, University of Washington
It’s a foggy fall morning, and University of Washington researcher Susan Dickerson-Lange pokes her index finger into the damp soil beneath a canopy of second-growth conifers. The tree cover is dense here, and little light seeps in among the understory of the Cedar River Municipal Watershed about 30 miles east ...
History Lecture Series to Explore Slavery in Making of America
Posted On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: 2013 lecture series, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, History lecture series, University of Washington, UW faculty
Many Americans think of slavery in the context of the 19th century, when it brought the nation to civil war. But as speakers in the University of Washington history department’s 2013 lecture series note, the practice dates back to America’s founding and did not abruptly end with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 ...
Neighborhoods and UW team up to measure diesel exhaust pollution in South Seattle
Posted On Saturday, September 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Dr. Julie Fox, Seattle’s Duwamish Valley, South Park neighborhoods, University of Washington
The residents of the Georgetown and South Park neighborhoods in Seattle’s Duwamish Valley now know how much diesel exhaust they are exposed to. The data were collected by the University of Washington School of Public Health and Puget Sound Sage, a nonprofit coalition in Seattle. A report on findings from ...
Pico-World Dragnets: Computer-Designed Proteins Recognize and Bind Small Molecules
Posted On Saturday, September 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: computational biology, Engineering, Environment, Health and Medicine, Nature paper, News Releases, Research, Science, Technology, University of Washington
Computer-designed proteins that can recognize and interact with small biological molecules are now a reality. Scientists have succeeded in creating a protein molecule that can be programmed to unite with three different steroids.
The achievement could have far wider ranging applications in medicine and other fields, according to the Protein Design ...
Physicists Pinpoint Key Property of Material that both Conducts and Insulates
Posted On Friday, August 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Bell Laboratories, David Cobden, Jae Hyung Park, Physicists pinpoint, University of Washington
It is well known to scientists that the three common phases of water – ice, liquid and vapor – can exist stably together only at a particular temperature and pressure, called the triple point.
Also well known is that the solid form of many materials can have numerous phases, but it ...
Abused Children Found to Smoke More as Teens and Adults
Posted On Thursday, August 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: adults, Journal of Adolescent Health, smoke, teens, University of Washington
Researchers have long suspected some kind of link between childhood abuse and smoking. But in an interesting twist, a new study from the University of Washington finds a connection not between whether or not abused children will ever begin smoking but to how much they smoke once if do start.
“In ...
UW Ranked Sixth in US and Eighth in World for Academic Performance
Posted On Monday, May 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University, sixth-best university, University of Washington
A new ranking conducted by the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) Graduate School of Informatics has determined that the University of Washington is the sixth-best university in the United States and eighth in the world based on its academic quality.
The University Ranking of Academic Performance employs six measures:
Number of ...
Benitez-Nelson recognized as Professor of the Year
Posted On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under SOUTH CAROLINA Tags: Benitez-Nelson, Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Mungo Distinguished, University of Washington
For marine science freshmen who sometimes feel they are lost at sea, adrift without a clear sense of direction, Marine Science 101 must seem like a lifeboat.
The introductory course is taught by Claudia Benitez-Nelson, a professor and director of the marine science program who has made it her mission to ...
Grocery Home Delivery May Be Greener Than Schlepping To The Store
Posted On Monday, May 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Anne Goodchild, Grocery, Schlepping, University of Washington
Home grocery delivery sounds like a frill for people too lazy to schlep to the store. But having food delivered can be more environmentally friendly than driving to the store, researchers say.
Having groceries delivered can cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least half, compared to driving to the store, according ...
Astronomer Studies Far-Off Worlds Through ‘Characterization by Proxy’
Posted On Monday, April 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: characterization by proxy, Kepler Space Telescope, Sarah Ballard, The Astrophysical Journal, University of Washington
A University of Washington astronomer is using Earth’s interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may host.
“Characterization by proxy” is the technique used by Sarah Ballard, a post-doctoral researcher at the UW, to infer the ...
The Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Evolution, March 29
Posted On Saturday, March 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ALASKA Tags: hydrodynamical N-body, planetarium, Supermassive Black Holes, University of Washington
Erin Hicks, University of Washington, presents a free seminar, “The Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Evolution,” in the UAA Planetarium. This will be an academic presentation lasting approximately one hour, with limited first-come, first-served seating. Please note that this event will not include a full-dome planetarium show.
Abstract:
Our theories ...
UW Nautilus Expedition May Have Spied New Species
Posted On Friday, March 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: National Marine Fisheries Service, Samoan nautilus, South Pacific, University of Washington
A University of Washington research team has captured color photographs of what could be a previously undocumented species of chambered nautilus, a cephalopod mollusk often classified as a “living fossil,” in the waters off American Samoa in the South Pacific.
“This is certainly a new taxon, but we are not sure ...
Michael B. Bragg Selected As Dean of UW College of Engineering
Posted On Thursday, February 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Michael Young, Mike Bragg, Provost Ana Mari Cauce, University of Illinois, University of Washington
Michael B. Bragg, professor and interim dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as dean of the University of Washington College of Engineering, effective July 15, 2013, UW President Michael Young and Provost Ana Mari Cauce announced today. The appointment is ...
UW Selects Jeffrey Riedinger As Vice Provost For Global Affairs
Posted On Friday, February 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Ana Mari Cauce, Global Affairs, Jeff Riedinger, Jeffrey Riedinger, Riedinger, University of Washington
Jeffrey Riedinger, professor and dean of International Studies and Programs at Michigan State University, has been named vice provost for global affairs at the University of Washington, UW Provost Ana Mari Cauce announced today.
Riedinger, a Seattle native who earned a law degree from the UW School of Law in 1980, ...
