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As the fourth-fastest growing city in the United States, Seattle faces important questions in its quest to remain a resilient and sustainable community. Can we build to withstand natural disasters, reduce environmental toxins as consumption rises, meet urban transportation challenges so food, supplies and consumer products can get where they need to go? Over the next month, College of Engineering鈥檚 annual fall lecture series will feature faculty focusing on these questions and developing technologies to build more resilient urban communities….

乱伦社区 scientists have put world’s longest-running measure of atmospheric carbon dioxide to music. The result is a 90-second rendition of human-induced climate change: The video project was done by Judy Twedt, a UW doctoral student in atmospheric sciences, and Dargan Frierson, a UW associate professor of atmospheric sciences and amateur musician. Their techno soundtrack maps musical notes to the Keeling Curve, a 58-year record of carbon dioxide measured high in the atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in…

Charles Johnson, UW professor emeritus of English, wrote a statement to accompany an item to be displayed in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. What he wrote also was featured in a special issue of Smithsonian Magazine.

乱伦社区 social work professor Paula Nurius is the inaugural recipient of a new national award for helping advance doctoral education in her field. Nurius will receive the 2016 Educational Leadership in Doctoral Education award from the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE) at a meeting in November. The award recognizes current or former faculty members who 鈥渄isplay a strong commitment to doctoral education and a demonstrated record of advancing doctoral education at the…

Amid a decline in funding for scientific research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Simons Foundation to launch a new Faculty Scholars program. Announced Sept. 22 by HHMI, the inaugural crop of early-career scientists includes 5 faculty members from the 乱伦社区.

Researchers at the 乱伦社区 are among the winners of a startup challenge to shorten the transition time from lab bench to patient. The team, including members of professor Suzie Pun’s research group in the UW Department of Bioengineering, was selected based on its proposal and business plan to develop a targeted drug delivery system for breast cancer.

The share of Washingtonians living in poverty dropped from 13.2 percent to 12.2 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to new data released Thursday. Washington was one of 23 states with statistically significant declines in their poverty rates during that period. The remaining 27 states and the District of Columbia saw no change in their poverty rates. “It is good news that the poverty rate has dropped for a second year in a row in Washington state. However, the share…

All across the world, millions of people will be practicing their earthquake-preparedness on Oct. 20. The event 鈥 called the Great ShakeOut 鈥 will commence at 10:20 a.m. for those participating at the 乱伦社区 and across the state. It is an opportunity for people to practice what they should do in the event of an earthquake: Drop, cover and hold on.

The Bernard Osher Foundation has announced a $1 million gift to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the 乱伦社区 (OLLI-UW). The Institute offers a diverse array of non-credit courses and activities for people 50 and older, giving these adults access to continuing education at the UW. The Osher Foundation鈥檚 gift takes the form of a $950,000 endowment and $50,000 bridge grant to support the ongoing work of OLLI-UW. It鈥檚 the second $1 million award the Foundation has given…

World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10, is a reminder that we all have a role to play in preventing suicide. Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention, based in the UW School of Social Work and led by Professor Jennifer Stuber, is offering a film and two suicide prevention workshops on Sept. 10.

Most landscape architecture projects conjure up an image of a permanent structure meant to be experienced indefinitely. But for Britton Shepard, a 2016 graduate of the 乱伦社区鈥檚 landscape architecture master鈥檚 program, it means exploring the temporary nature of urban terrains. Earlier this year, Shepard brought life back to a vacant and demolished lot in the University District 鈥 although it was only a short-lived endeavor. Shepard鈥檚 thesis project 鈥淪ite 1121: Field Notes鈥 centered around a Washington State Employee…

Visitors to Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory are in for a stinking treat, courtesy of the Department of Biology at the 乱伦社区. The conservatory has taken in a young corpse lily, affectionately known as Dougsley, which is set to blossom this week or next.

乱伦社区 employees are invited to attend an open forum either Monday, Aug. 15, 1:30-2:30 p.m.聽in Odegaard 220 or Wednesday, Aug. 17, 1:30-2:30 p.m.聽in the HUB, Room 250, to learn more about the design of the HR/Payroll Integrated Service Center.聽聽 The goal of the center鈥痠s to provide a single point of contact to effectively support faculty, staff and student employees with their human resources, academic human resources鈥痑nd payroll-related questions and service needs. Data input sessions last winter garnered more…

A dozen scientists and engineers from the 乱伦社区 have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. According to a statement released by the organization, the new members were selected for “their outstanding record of scientific achievement and willingness to work on behalf of the academy in bringing the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.” Three of the new members from UW were chosen because they had been elected recently to…

A chance meeting with a fellow scientist 27 years ago forever changed Randy Kyes鈥 life 鈥 catapulting him from North Carolina to Indonesia and beyond. As the founding director of the 乱伦社区鈥檚 Center for Global Field Study and head of the Division of Global Programs at the Washington National Primate Research Center, Kyes has spent almost three decades leading field courses on environmental and global health in a dozen countries. Often accompanied by students from the UW and…

When editors at Time magazine compiled a list of expert picks for “25 Moments that Changed America,” UW Bothell’s Dan Berger was among the historians they reached out to for a contribution. An assistant professor in Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Berger was asked to choose a “moment” 鈥 trends and social movements were not allowed 鈥 and write something brief about it. The article ran on June 28 on the Time’s website and in its many social…