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Myanmar goes mobile, with UW’s help
A reformist government sped up Myanmar’s transition to democracy three years ago, dramatically increasing聽access to information. In 2011, just four percent of the population had mobile phones. Now the figure is closer to eighty percent, with many people owning smartphones. But navigating the flood of online information can be problematic for new users with no experience assessing the trustworthiness of sites and sources. An initiative launched by UW faculty aims to change that.
The initiative, (ISST), is designed to build digital literacy,聽information literacy, and data literacy across Myanmar. Professors Mary Callahan and Sara Curran in the Jackson School of International Studies, Chris Coward, director of the Technology & Social Change Group in the Information School, and Michael Crandall, a principal research scientist in the Information School, lead the project in collaboration with USAID, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. speaks on campus
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
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.
Husky Presidential Ambassadors Leadership Institute facilitates inclusive engagement
Universities across the nation are working to further聽connect international students and create a globally聽engaged campus environment for all students.聽Increasing globalization also raises the demand for聽graduates with increased competencies in cross-cultural communication and practice. Engaging together in聽cross-cultural leadership studies, undergraduates learn聽to think and connect across boundaries, enhancing all聽students鈥� Husky Experience.
Student research named in El Salvador family’s reunification story
Jackson School students in the 2015 capstone course 鈥淧romoting Human Rights and Healing in the Wake of Civil War鈥� made two documentary films aimed to reunite San Salvadoran parents of 鈥渄isappeared children.鈥澛燭he videos went public in March聽2015, and in April,聽King 5 news covered the story.聽By early 2016, at least one聽mother and child from the documentary had been reunited, as documented in聽聽The article聽references the UW student-produced documentaries.
Consul General of India, industry leaders engage together on campus
With support from the , The South Asia Center and the Global Business Center are partnering to host a symposium, “US-India Economic Relations and the Contemporary Indian Economy” on campus.聽Ambassador Venkatesan Ashok, Consul General of India of San Francisco, as well as prominent members of the local community and UW faculty experts will address the group and engage in the symposium.
Event details
Friday, February 26, 2016
2:00-5:00 PM
Bank of America Executive Education Center, Douglas Forum
Unearthing new discoveries at Honduras’ City of the Jaguar
UW researchers聽Anna Cohen and Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius are part of a bi-national, multi-agency team excavating the City of the Jaguar in Honduras. Artifacts from the site provide clues about life in the lost city, and how it came to an end.
Diplomacy in the Earth’s orbit
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听聽says that space is “a sort of new frontier in terms of U.S. foreign policy, but also the global community.” She aims to “bridge the聽bridge the gap between what academics know and what policymakers might want to know.”
In Washington Post op-ed, professor addresses ethics and climate change
In his recent op-ed in The Washington Post, Professor of philosophy 聽argues that climate change is a pressing ethical challenge. He writes, ‘Climate change presents a severe ethical challenge, forcing us to confront difficult questions as individual moral agents, and even more so as members of larger political systems. It is genuinely global and seriously intergenerational, and crosses species boundaries. It also takes place in a setting where existing institutions and theories are weak, proving little ethical guidance.’