Seven 天美影视传媒 scientists are included in , published in December 2020. is a collaborative resource between Cell Press and Cell Signaling Technology.

鈥淭he list was compiled聽to honor the Black scientists for their efforts in research, diversity and inclusion initiatives, advocacy, social justice outreach, teaching and mentorship,鈥� Antentor O. Hinton, Jr., a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Iowa, a co-author of the list. 鈥淭he hope was that the list 鈥� would serve as a reference for those looking for prominent scientific speakers who could further emphasize the importance of diversity.鈥�

At the UW, the list comprises a spectrum of advanced career scientists, a former chancellor and up-and-coming researchers.

鈥淲e are proud to see the names of several inspiring scientists from the UW on this list.聽 It is our hope that this kind of recognition amplifies the excellent and important contributions our Black faculty, post-docs and students are making in STEM. Because they are here, others can visualize themselves being here as well, and this is critical as we work to increase representation in the STEM fields across our university,鈥� said Rickey Hall, the UW鈥檚 vice president for Minority Affairs & Diversity and university diversity officer.

The UW researchers highlighted include:

• Chancellor Emeritus , who arrived at UW Bothell in 1999 as its founding chancellor. Later, he founded the Science and Technology Program, which became the UW Bothell School of STEM.
• Associate Professor , whose research group aims to engineer systems to meet demands for new sources of industrially and medically important chemicals and materials. His work is in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
• Postdoctoral fellow , who studies pedagogies and other interventions in higher education that support underrepresented students in STEM. Her work is in the Department of Chemistry.
• Associate Professor , whose lab is focused on understanding the pathophysiological basis of genetic epilepsies and their comorbid conditions. His work is in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
• Acting Assistant Professor , who is focused on developing point-of-care diagnostics for therapeutic monitoring and precision dosing to treat infectious and chronic diseases. His work is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
• Assistant Professor , whose research and lab is focused on designing low-cost composites to selectively remove contaminants in stormwater and wastewater. Her work is in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
• Assistant Professor , whose research and teaching involves harmonic analysis, which is a mathematical procedure for describing and analyzing phenomena of a periodically recurrent nature, such as sound waves, electric currents and tides. His work is in the Department of Mathematics.

“We applaud these remarkable researchers who represent the very best of who we are as we continue to diversify our ranks. At the UW, we are working across the academic spectrum, from students to tenured faculty, to ensure our diversity reflects the communities we serve,” said UW Provost Mark Richards.

Several honors, grant awards in 2020 for Nadya Peek of HCDE

, UW assistant professor of human centered design and engineering, received an honor in 2020 as well as several research grants. MIT Review in June named her to its annual list of , celebrating those whose work “has the greatest potential to transform the world.”

Peek leads the UW’s , a research group that uses machine precision to assist human creativity, and co-directs the .

In recent months, Peek received a from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study testing and verification of quality control strategies for manufactured products responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. She and a University of California colleague also were awarded a two-year National Science Foundation to research digital manufacturing tools for low-volume manufacturing.

Peek is a co-principal investigator on a $2 million, three-year grant from the NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Program, announced in October, to develop distributed chemical manufacturing using synthetic biology. UW chemical engineering professor is the project lead, along with UW chemistry assistant professor and chemical engineering associate professor .

Also, Peek and , professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, will share a three-year NSF to develop open source, customizable “co-bots,” or collaborative robots designed to work alongside humans in scientific work as well as other fields such as advanced fabrication and quality control.

Read more at Peeks’ page on the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering .

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Miranda Belarde-Lewis a new iSchool endowed faculty fellow

, assistant professor in the UW Information School, has been named the inaugural .

Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) is an independent curator as well as a professor of North American Indigenous Knowledge with the iSchool, and her work examines the role of social media in protecting, perpetuating and documenting Native American information and knowledge.

The award comes with funds Belarde-Lewis can use to apply for grants, bring speakers to campus and the community, or help with her research.

is the former longtime director of the UW’s Odegaard Undergraduate Library and was the iSchool’s Distinguished Alumna for 2020.

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American Political Science Association honors Aseem Prakash

, UW professor of political science, has received the 2020 from the American Political Science Association’s Science, Technology and Environmental Politics division.

(1933-2012) was a well-known American political scientist, who received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Prakash, who knew Ostrom and her husband well, is the Walker Family Professor for the Arts and Sciences and directs the UW-based . The award was announced in the summer.