Twelve faculty members at the 天美影视传媒 have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. They are among 36 scientists and educators from across the state July 17 as new members. Election recognizes the new member鈥檚 鈥渙utstanding record of scientific and technical achievement and willingness to assist the Academy in providing the best available scientific information and technical understanding to inform complex policy decisions in Washington.鈥�听

The UW faculty members were selected by current WSAS members or by their election to national science academies. Eleven were voted on by current WSAS members:听

, professor, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, and director of the Paul G. 听Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, for 鈥渃ontributions in data management for data science, big data systems, cloud computing and image/video analytics and leadership in data science education.鈥�听

professor of civil & environmental engineering and of industrial & systems engineering, for 鈥減ioneering work in human mobility analysis and infrastructure resilience, which have transformed transportation systems in terms of both demand and supply, and shaped the future directions of transportation systems research on community-based solutions and disaster resilience.鈥�听

Lloyd and Kay Chapman Endowed Chair for Oral Health and associate dean for research in the UW School of Dentistry, and professor in the Department of Health Systems & Population Health, for 鈥渓eadership in understanding and addressing children’s oral health inequities through community-based socio-behavioral interventions and evidence-based policies.鈥�听

professor of biology, for 鈥渋nternationally recognized leadership in the biology of sleep, including groundbreaking research on molecular and genetic aspects of the brain, human behavioral studies on learning under varied sleep schedules, and contributions that have shaped policy on school schedules and standard time.鈥�听

, the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel professor of physics and of electrical & computer engineering, for 鈥渇oundational contributions to fundamental and applied research on the optical and spin properties of quantum point defects in crystals and for service and leadership in the quantum community.鈥� 听

, professor and chair of human centered design and engineering, for 鈥渁ward-winning leadership in HCI computing, whose research has advanced health and education technology, influenced policy, and shaped the HCI field of through impactful scholarship, interdisciplinary collaboration and inclusive, real-world technology design.鈥�听

, professor and associate dean for research in the UW School of Social Work, for 鈥渃ontributions to understanding psychosocial and physiological factors that moderate the effectiveness of their interventions and ultimately improve the health of children with abdominal pain disorders.鈥�听

, professor of medicine in the UW School of Medicine and of pharmacy, 鈥渇or leadership in health economics and cancer research, including work on financial toxicity, cost- effectiveness, and healthcare policy that has influenced national discussions, improved cancer care access, and shaped policies for equitable and sustainable healthcare.鈥� Ramsey is also Director of the Cancer Outcomes Research Program at Fred Hutch.听

, professor of bioengineering and Vice Dean of Research and Graduate Education in the UW School of Medicine, for 鈥渘ational leadership in biomedical research, research policy, and graduate education, including pioneering novel drug delivery approaches for regenerative medicine applications in the nervous system and other tissues such as bone, cartilage, tendon and skin.鈥�听

, Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Earth and space sciences, for 鈥渞evolutionizing our understanding of climate change in Antarctica through pioneering ice core extractions under hazardous Antarctic conditions and their subsequent analyses over two decades, and for applying that expertise to advance climate research in Washington State.鈥�听

, professor of pharmaceutics, for 鈥減ioneering contributions to pharmaceutical and translational sciences, including groundbreaking research on drug transporters, PBPK modeling and maternal-fetal pharmacology that have helped shaped drug safety policies.鈥�听

The Academy also welcomed new members who were selected by virtue of their election to the National Academies of Science, Engineering or Medicine. Among them is , the Arthur B. McDonald professor of physics and director of the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics. Hertzog was elected to the National Academy of Sciences last year. 听

Dr. Douglas Paauw honored for teaching by American College of Physicians 听

, UW professor of general internal medicine in the School of Medicine and director of the UW Medical Student Program, has been awarded the by the , a national organization of internists.

The award, established in 1969 and renamed for its first woman , is given annually to a fellow or of the college “who has demonstrated the ennobling qualities of a great teacher.” Paauw was a master of the college in 2009.

He joined the School of Medicine faculty in 1988 and is a physician at the UW Medical Center’s general internal medicine and virology clinics. Paauw also received distinguished teaching awards from the UW in 1997 and from its School of Medicine four times. He is the UW’s Rathmann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Patient Centered Clinical Education.

Paauw will receive the award at the college’s annual convocation ceremony in April 2020 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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Dr. Joel Kaufman named new editor-in-chief of environmental health journal

, UW professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, medicine and epidemiology, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the journal .

The journal is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.

Kaufman is a practicing physician who has published more than 200 research papers and review articles on environmental science. Since joining the UW faculty more than two decades ago, he has maintained a research program that encompasses epidemiology, inhalation toxicology, clinical medicine and exposure sciences. He previously served as interim dean for the School of Public Health.

Day-to-day operations for the journal will be carried out by full-time staff under Kaufman鈥檚 direction. The journal now enables its editor-in-chief to continue conducting research and teaching at their home institution.听

Kaufman has served on editorial boards and peer review panels for many of the leading clinical medicine and environmental health journals. He previously served on the editorial review board, then as an associate editor, of Environmental Health Perspectives before taking over as interim dean of the School of Public Health in 2016. .

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Allen School faculty members honored by Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 听

The , or ACM, has professors and of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering as among 58 new , honored for their “far-reaching accomplishments that define the digital age.”

Also, the , or IEEE, has named Allen School professor as among its Smith also has an appointment with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

These announcements bring to 24 the number of current or former Allen School faculty members made an ACM Fellows, and 16 who have been named IEEE Fellows.

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Sam Luboga of Department of Family Medicine to lead Ugandan education commission

, a UW clinical associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine has been named to lead the of The Republic of Uganda. Luboga is also an associate professor of health sciences at , in Kampala, Uganda. The appointment calls for Luboga to lead the nation’s civil service teacher’s personnel board, responsible for ensuring the high caliber of Uganda’s teaching workforce.

“I will make sure that the reputation of the Education Service Commission remains high and grows more,” Luboga said in an about his appointment.

, professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has been awarded a of $2 million for two years from the National Science Foundation as part of the NSF’s program.

The manufacturing life cycle starts with discovering new molecules and materials, often through computer simulations, and identifying promising candidates that can later be tested in laboratories. The grant, starting in September, will support development of new data science approaches to accelerate the engineering life cycle of design, characterization, manufacturing and operation.

Balazinska is principal investigator; co-principal investigators are chemical engineering professor , research associate professor ; and , senior data scientist with the UW’s eScience Institute.

For more information, contact Balazinska at magda@cs.washington.edu.

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, professor in the College of Education, has been awarded a of $1,400,000 across four years from the for a study to identify “malleable” reading factors 鈥� such as awareness and letter sounds 鈥� among elementary students with intellectual disabilities, with the long-term aim of developing effective literacy interventions.

Hudson is principal investigator; co-principal investigators, also in education, are assistant professor and associate professor . The National Center for Special Education Research is one of four research centers of . The grant was awarded in August.

Listen to a spring 2019 with Hudson about the effectiveness of interventions designed to help young readers on the autism spectrum.

For more information, contact Hudson at rhudson@uw.edu

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, clinical assistant professor of in the Department of Global Health 鈥� which bridges the UW schools of public health and medicine 鈥� has received a $200,000 grant from the Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will develop and pilot a program that uses social media to prevent depression in young pregnant women or women who have recently given birth.
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鈥淧rofessor Balazinska is a respected scholar and colleague who brings a breadth of leadership experience that will serve the school well as it continues to grow in size and stature,鈥� said Greg Miller, interim dean of the . Hank Levy, who has led computer science and engineering through a period of tremendous growth over the past 13 years, will continue as director until Balazinska assumes her duties.

A professor of computer science & engineering, Balazinska鈥檚 research interests are in the field of database management systems. Her current research focuses on data management for data science, big data systems, cloud computing, and image and video analytics, including data management for augmented and virtual reality systems.

Balazinska established herself as an outstanding leader as director of UW鈥檚 and Associate Vice Provost for Data Science, where she developed broad cross-campus partnerships to advance data-intensive discovery across a variety of disciplines and spearheaded the establishment of educational programs for students in the burgeoning field of data science. She led the creation of the Data Science and Ph.D. options, and later co-led the creation of the option.

鈥淚 am thrilled and deeply honored to work with students, faculty, staff and community stakeholders to advance computer science education and innovation.听The Paul G. Allen School is one of the world鈥檚 leading computer science programs and the Puget Sound region is one of the world鈥檚 great technology centers. Together, we have the opportunity to work on the most challenging problems of our time and develop groundbreaking new technology. I look forward to contributing to this goal as the new Allen School director,鈥� Balazinska said.

Balazinska has been recognized with many professional honors, including: a Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery鈥檚 Special Interest Group on the Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD) for her contributions in distributed stream processing; the 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award from the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) for her work in automated software code refactoring; and the inaugural Women in Database Research Award from VLDB, the flagship conference for database research, based on her inspirational record of research in scalable distributed data systems. She is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, and multiple best paper awards.

She holds a doctorate in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the UW faculty in 2006.

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