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HydroShare allows better analysis of extreme weather events and water scarcity

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HydroShare, an online collaborative environment for sharing water-related data, allows researchers to better analyze extreme weather events and water scarcity such as hurricanes, flooding and droughts. The HydroShare research team, which includes 乱伦社区 researchers from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, recently received a $4 million National Science Foundation grant to fund enhancements to this tool. HydroShare was first deployed in 2015 and is used by more than 1,500 researchers and students to share hydrologic data and…

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences funds population health pilots

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Faculty from the 乱伦社区’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences were involved in 21 of the 60 applications received earlier this year by the Population Health Initiative for its inaugural round of pilot research grants. Department Chair J眉rgen Un眉tzer was impressed with the quality of 19 proposals that were not funded by the Population Health Initiative, so he invited all department faculty with unfunded proposals to submit them for review and scoring by peer faculty as part of…

Reducing mental health disparities among Mexican immigrant women

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The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $3 million grant to India Ornelas (pictured), associate professor of health services at the School of Public Health, to test an innovative program aimed at reducing mental health disparities among Mexican immigrant women. The eight-week program is called Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma, and it introduces women to new coping strategies and ways to enhance their social support systems. The goal is to prevent and reduce depression and anxiety among the vulnerable…

UW鈥檚 Doorway Project seeks to create a hub for homeless youth

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The 乱伦社区 is launching The Doorway Project, an effort to establish a University District neighborhood hub and navigation center specifically for homeless young people in a partnership among faculty, student and community service agencies. The partnership, which is supported by $1 million in state funding over the next two years, is planning to start with a pop-up caf茅 on Dec. 3 in the parking lot of the University Heights Community Center. The pop-up caf茅 will include pay-as-you-can food…

Urban@UW Homelessness Research Initiative releases annual faculty report

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The Urban@UW鈥檚 Homelessness Research Initiative works to amplify research findings and translate them to a broader community of state and local governments, nonprofit providers, philanthropies and others dedicated to improving the lives of those experiencing homelessness. The initiative recently released its annual faculty report documenting three new cross-disciplinary projects that are underway. These projects 鈥� Understanding Housing and Food Insecurity among 乱伦社区 Students, Critical Narratives of Homelessness and the Doorway Project 鈥� unite faculty efforts from across the…

Winter 2018 undergraduate course focuses on population health

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The Population Health Initiative has partnered with the 乱伦社区’s Undergraduate Research Program to offer a series of faculty lectures during Winter Quarter 2018 focused on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity. The Research Exposed! (General Studies 391D) course will feature faculty from a number of disciplines discussing their population health-related research. Undergraduates may take this course for credit (i.e., one credit/quarter; three quarters max). Each lecture is open to…

Encouraging healthy behaviors in young people through Communities in Action

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Students from the 乱伦社区 School of Social Work are joining with community leaders in central and southeast Seattle to increase young people鈥檚 chances of achieving success. This program, Communities in Action, helps communities use data about their youth to make informed decisions on how to meet kids鈥� needs and develop a plan of action to meet those needs. The communities drive the plan, with local organizations and schools putting the plan into play in ways that increase protective…

New five-year grant for the UW Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology

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The聽乱伦社区’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology聽(CSDE) has been awarded a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the Population Dynamics Branch of the聽Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. This grant will support CSDE’s research and training in demography, population health and reproductive health across five primary research areas: 1) Demographic Measurement and Methods, 2) Environments and Populations, 3) Health of People and Populations, 4) Migrations and Settlements, and 5) Wellbeing of Families and…

The UW climbs to top 10 in US News Best Global Universities ranking

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The 乱伦社区 is tied for the No. 10 spot on the U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 Best Global Universities rankings, and is now second among American public institutions. The methodology for these rankings weighs factors that measure a university鈥檚 global and regional research reputation and academic research performance. These include such indicators as publications, citations and international collaboration. A total of 10 UW programs were also ranked in the top 25 of the U.S. News & World Report…

Assessing climate change’s impact on High Mountain Asia water resources

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The more than one billion people who live in the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region depend on the area鈥檚 large glaciers and snow packs for freshwater, hydropower and agriculture. A 乱伦社区 project is studying the HMA鈥檚 glaciers, snow, permafrost and precipitation to determine how climate change is impacting the water resources of that region. Project generated data is analyzed and used for computer simulation modeling and predictions that to help governments manage their water resources. The UW researchers…