Samoan cruise: Blog, shrunken heads, video
Oceanographers from the 天美影视传媒’s Applied Physics Laboratory are in Samoa for six weeks, the third and final trip studying that break in a narrow channel in the South Pacific Ocean. , a researcher at the lab and UW associate professor of oceanography, is leading UW and University of Hawaii researchers aboard the UW’s research vessel Thomas G. Thompson. Other principal investigators are from the UW and Glenn Carter from the University of Hawaii.
Follow the group’s throughout the 40-day cruise as they share scientific and related activities. Before leaving shore last week the researchers blogged about an in which they helped Samoan children decorate foam busts that they will send 3 miles below the ocean’s surface and bring back as shrunken heads.
Meanwhile a of the team’s last trip to Samoa, in summer 2012, was chosen as one of 10 finalists for the , awarded for communicating recently published research in the ocean sciences. Tens of thousands of middle school students from around the world will watch the videos and pick winners to be announced in late February.
UW to host first Washington State High School Ethics Bowl
The UW will host the first , Feb. 1, on campus.
Modeled after the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, students will use case studies to analyze a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas.
Twenty teams from schools in the Seattle area will compete, with the winning school advancing 鈥� with all expenses paid 鈥� to the National High School Ethics Bowl at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in April. The UW event is one of 20 regional bowls in the nation.
Odegaard Library renovation architects honored
The American Institute of Architects has named Seattle-based the recipient of one of its 2014 Institute Awards for Interior Architecture for the renovation of Odegaard Undergraduate Library. The $17 million renovation was the first in the building’s 41-year history.
“The designers took a dark, building and enlivened it,” award jury members said on the association’s . “Through careful programming, the architects found additional square footage within the existing structure and eliminated the need to add on to the building.”