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Meeting schedule 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the University Temple Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. Noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15 at the Husky Union Building, Room 340, on the UW campus. For more information, check the Campus Master Plan FAQ The 天美影视传媒 is inviting students, staff, faculty and members of the community to participate in public meetings on Oct. 14 and 15 to kick off a two-year effort to develop the next master…

The number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) older adults in Seattle and King County is expected to double by 2030, and they face higher risks of disability, poor health, mental distress and isolation 鈥 along with a social service sector unequipped to deal with their needs. That鈥檚 the conclusion of a study released Oct. 6 and led by professor Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen and colleagues at the 天美影视传媒 School of Social Work. The study identifies widespread social…

The 天美影视传媒 will help more social work graduate students pay for their studies and start their careers without staggering debt loads, thanks to significant support from Connie and Steve Ballmer. The Ballmers鈥 contributions include a new gift of $20 million, bringing the couple鈥檚 support for the UW School of Social Work to $32 million over the past five years. The funding is part of the early stages of the university鈥檚 fundraising campaign, expected to be announced next fall….

A diverse coalition of public and private colleges and universities including the 天美影视传媒 is coming together with the goal of improving the college admission application process for all students.聽 The Coalition is developing a free platform of online tools to streamline the experience of planning for and applying to college. The initial iteration of the planning tools will be available to freshmen, sophomores and juniors in high school beginning in January 2016. In creating this platform, these colleges…

The 天美影视传媒 announced today that, consistent with its earlier commitment to Seattle鈥檚 minimum wage law, it intends to raise the minimum wage of its workers 鈥 including student workers in Seattle 鈥 to $15 an hour. Subject to the successful conclusion of on-going negotiations with its unions, the increase will take effect in two stages: moving to $13 an hour on Jan. 1, 2016, and to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2017. The increases are in keeping…

A team of scientists at the 天美影视传媒 and the biotechnology company Illumina have created an innovative tool to directly detect the delicate, single-molecule interactions between DNA and enzymatic proteins. Their approach provides a new platform to view and record these nanoscale interactions in real time. As they report Sept. 28 in Nature Biotechnology, this tool should provide fast and reliable characterization of the different mechanisms cellular proteins use to bind to DNA strands 鈥 information that could shed new light on the atomic-scale interactions within our cells and help design new drug therapies against pathogens by targeting enzymes that interact with DNA.

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 鈥 or Fermilab 鈥 announced that a 680-ton superconducting magnet is secure in its new home and nearly ready for a new era of discovery in particle physics. This achievement follows the delicate, 3,200-mile transport of the magnet’s 17-ton, 50-foot-wide housing ring to the U.S. Department of Energy facility outside Chicago two years ago. The fully assembled magnet will drive high-energy particle experiments as part of an international partnership among 34 institutions, of which the 天美影视传媒 is a leading contributor.

Imagine a question-and-answer game played by two people who are not in the same place and not talking to each other. Round after round, one player asks a series of questions and accurately guesses the object the other is thinking about. Sci-fi? Mind-reading superpowers? Not quite. 天美影视传媒 researchers recently used a direct brain-to-brain connection to enable pairs of participants to play a question-and-answer game by transmitting signals from one brain to the other over the Internet. The experiment,…

UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos’ book “The Master Algorithm” is an essential primer on machine learning, and a popular science romp through one of today’s hottest scientific topics.. It unveils the deep ideas behind the algorithms that increasingly pick our books, find our dates, manage investments and run our lives 鈥 and what informed consumers ought to know about them.

The 天美影视传媒 is the most innovative public university in the world, according to a new ranking by Reuters released Wednesday. The UW is ranked fourth overall, behind only Stanford, MIT and Harvard. 鈥淚nnovation and turning ideas into action are at the center of everything we do,鈥 UW Interim President Ana Mari Cauce said. 鈥淭his is great recognition of the hard work done by our faculty and students working across all disciplines, and I can鈥檛 wait to see what…

In early August, biologist Peter Ward returned from the South Pacific with news that he encountered an old friend, one he hadn’t seen in over three decades. The 天美影视传媒 professor had seen what he considers one of the world’s rarest animals, a remote encounter that may become even more infrequent if illegal fishing practices continue. The creature in question is Allonautilus scrobiculatus, a species of nautilus that Ward and a colleague had previously discovered off of Ndrova Island…

For the second consecutive year, the 天美影视传媒 held the No. 7 spot in the nation in Washington Monthly鈥檚 annual College Guide, which rates universities on students鈥 social mobility, civic engagement and research. Washington Monthly also rates colleges that are doing the best job of helping lower-income students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices, and named the UW No. 1 on its 鈥渂est bang for the buck鈥 western region list. 鈥淭he UW is proud to be a public university…

Women lag behind men in the lucrative computer science and technology industries, and one of the possible contributors to this disparity is that they’re less likely to enroll in introductory computer science courses. A new study of 270 high school students shows that three times as many girls were interested in enrolling in a computer science class if the classroom was redesigned to be less “geeky” and more inviting. The results, by 天美影视传媒 researchers, reveal a practical way…

The public sector has long served as an equalizer in American society, a place where minority workers could find stable employment that offered advancement and a reliable path to a middle-class life. But the Great Recession wiped out many of those jobs, as tax revenues declined and anti-government sentiment added to a contraction that continued long after the recession ended in 2008. Those job cuts disproportionately hurt African-American workers and increased racial disparity in the public sector, a new study…

Ever been so hungry that you can’t think of anything but finding food? Research from the UW Foster School of Business finds that the single-mindedness that results from hunger makes people more likely to commit unethical acts to satisfy that hunger 鈥 but less likely to lie, cheat or steal for reasons that don’t address the immediate physiological need.

Children who have been abused or exposed to other types of trauma typically experience more intense emotions than their peers, a byproduct of living in volatile, dangerous environments. But what if those kids could regulate their emotions? Could that better help them cope with difficult situations? Would it impact how effective therapy might be for them? A 天美影视传媒-led team of researchers sought to address those questions by studying what happens in the brains of maltreated adolescents when they…

The 天美影视传媒 remained No. 15 on the聽2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was released Monday. The UW again ranked 13th among U.S. universities and fourth among public institutions worldwide. The ranking considers several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, papers published in the journals Nature and Science, papers indexed in…