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Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. speaks on campus

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The United States and Belgium have worked together across the globe to promote security, human rights, and bilateral trade. They share a mutual interest in creating safe communities in the United States, Belgium, and elsewhere by cooperating on counterterrorism and countering violent extremism. The two nations also have longstanding economic and commercial ties with more than 13 million jobs on both sides of the Atlantic already supported by US-EU trade.

The UW community is invited聽a talk with the Belgian Ambassador to the United States, Johan Verbeke, April 18th in the Smith Room, Allen Library at 3:00pm.

Scientists crack the code of butterflies’ international journey

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Each fall, monarch butterflies across Canada and the United States turn their orange, black and white-mottled wings toward the Rio Grande and migrate over 2,000 miles to the relative warmth of central Mexico.

This journey, repeated instinctively by generations of monarchs, continues even as monarch numbers have plummeted due to loss of their sole larval food source 鈥� milkweed. But amid this sad news, a research team believes they have of the internal, genetically encoded compass that the monarchs use to determine the direction 鈥� southwest 鈥� they should fly each fall.

Exploring the history of Jewish refugees in Shanghai

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From 1933 to 1941, Shanghai became a modern-day 鈥淣oah鈥檚 Ark鈥� accepting over 18,000 Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust in Europe. Most were from Germany and Austria, but the refugees also included students of the famed Mir Yeshiva, the only yeshiva in occupied Europe to survive the Holocaust. In the 鈥淒esignated Area for Stateless Refugees鈥� in Ti Lan Qiao historic area of Shanghai, Jewish refugees lived harmoniously with local Chinese, overcoming numerous difficulties together. By the time the Second World War ended in 1945, most of the Jewish refugees had survived.

The Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Exhibition (1933-1941) brings together for the first time photos, personal stories, and artifacts from Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum. The exhibition will run at Hillel at UW from April 5 through April 30, 2016. It is free and open to the public聽Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM 鈥� 4:00 PM. School field trips are available with advanced notice.

Study: Most tweets following fall Paris attacks defended Islam, Muslims

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Researchers at the UW聽 and the Qatar Computing Research Institute analyzed 8.36 million tweets beginning seven hours after the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and continuing for 50 hours. Searching for words and hashtags relevant to the event, the team identified about 900,000 tweets relating to Islam and Muslims.聽They found that while anti-Islam and anti-Muslim sentiments arose on Twitter, most tweets in the huge stream following the Paris attacks actually condemned the negative hashtags and expressed support for Islam.

In the Galapagos, UW researchers partner to map historic climate patterns

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Together with colleagues from Australian National University, 乱伦社区 oceanographers used clues from the Galapagos Islands 鈥� a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 鈥� to trace El Ni帽o patterns and seasonal tropical rains over the past 2,000 years. Evidence shows shifts that last for centuries, suggesting these tropical climate patterns have varied more radically and for longer durations than previously believed.聽The is published the week of March 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Center for Global Health Nursing promotes ‘health that transcends borders’

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Sarah聽Gimbel and聽Pam Kohler co-direct the UW聽School of Nursing Center for Global Health Nursing. The center pushes for the voices of nurses to be included in global health conversations.聽The center will support nursing students who want to learn and serve overseas, as well as international students who want to study at the UW. Likewise, a global health perspective allows nurses from the U.S. and abroad to learn from one another. 鈥淲hen we say 鈥榞lobal,鈥欌�� Gimbel said, 鈥渨e鈥檙e talking about health that transcends borders.鈥�

supports projects sponsored by the聽Center for Global Health Nursing.