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Clean, efficient cookstove focuses on reducing pollution illness, and early death

Posted on November 15, 2016November 15, 2016

Smoke from polluting open indoor cooking fires and cookstoves in developing countries are believed to cause millions of illnesses and premature deaths each year. Gathering fuel for these fires and cookstoves can also expose adults and children to further dangers. To overcome these challenges, researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering have partnered with the non-profit BURN Design Lab to develop a much cleaner-burning and more efficient cookstove known as the 鈥淜uniokoa.鈥� This innovative stove will be manufactured by local…

Restoring oysters in Puget Sound

Posted on November 2, 2016November 2, 2016

The nature of our local ecosystem changed when a combination of overharvesting, polluted waters, and shoreline changes led to the commercial extinction of the Olympia oyster from the Puget Sound. Dr. Bonnie Becker, UW Tacoma associate professor of marine ecology, is leading undergraduate researchers in a collaborative effort to reintroduce the native oyster to its original environment. Her teams are monitoring microscopic larvae to identify sites where the oysters can naturally seed and be self-sustaining. Reintroducing native oysters can provide…

Innovative, low cost NIFTY鈩� Cup seeks to save millions of lives

Posted on October 26, 2016October 27, 2016

Each year, there are millions of babies born prematurely or with oral clefts in developing countries who struggle to breast feed. These babies are often at high risk for malnourishment, infection, and often death, but thanks to Christy McKinney, a clinical assistant professor of oral health sciences, a new feeding aid for them is now readying for widespread distribution across Africa. In partnership with PATH and Seattle Children鈥檚, McKinney has developed the NIFTY鈩� cup (Neonatal Intuitive Feeding TechnologY), a low-cost…

UW receives transformative gift

Posted on October 25, 2016November 30, 2016

The 天美影视传媒’s Population Health Initiative has received a transformative gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, advancing our efforts to improve human health and well-being. This $210 million gift will catalyze our work to enhance human health, environmental resiliency and social and economic equity here in Washington and around the world. Learn More >

Summer tutoring boosts literacy outcomes

Posted on October 18, 2016October 18, 2016

The majority of the reading achievement gap that appears between poverty-impacted students and their peers is attributable to the lack of access to summer reading opportunities. To boost these literacy outcomes, tutors from the College of Education have partnered with Seattle’s Whitman Middle School to offer one-on-one support to students, which includes 12 90-minute sessions over the course of a month. The program recently finished its fifth year, and is highly regarded by Whitman’s principal. Learn More >

Provost report on population health released

Posted on October 13, 2016

The focus of the latest provost鈥檚 report, which was released today, is population health and the UW’s groundbreaking new Population Health Initiative. The report introduces readers to work the 天美影视传媒 currently has underway to better address population health, and features the following: Social and Economic Equity: How factors of equity impact health and well-being of diverse populations Environmental Resiliency: Understanding the impact of the environment on health and well-being Human Health: How today鈥檚 research and inventions set the…

Latest Global Burden of Disease study released

Posted on October 10, 2016October 11, 2016

The latest Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, which allows a thorough analysis of the state of the world鈥檚 health, was released on October 7. The study is conducted by the 天美影视传媒鈥檚 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The study, which is published by The Lancet, noted continued increases in overall life expectancy, due in part to declines in critical infectious diseases. However, the burden of non-communicable disease and injury is rising, often in areas…

Creating a mobile app that tests lung capacity

Posted on October 4, 2016October 5, 2016

People suffering from lung diseases in developing worlds often do not have a good way to track lung functioning without visiting the doctor. Through the work of UW researchers, many may soon be able to measure their lung function simply by blowing into any type of phone after SpiroCall, a new health sensing tool, was found to meet the medical community鈥檚 standard for accuracy. With this proof of concept in hand, the research team can now plan for additional data…

Skies Over Seattle: Connecting the campus and surrounding community

Posted on September 28, 2016September 29, 2016

What does it mean to be homeless in the U-District? Drama students created Skies Over Seattle, original theater pieces inspired by the intersection of volunteerism and artistic creation in pursuit of understanding that question. Graduate students in acting, design and directing, as well as several undergraduates, volunteered for three community organizations that serve the homeless around the UW’s Seattle campus. Over the course of a year, their lessons learned and questions asked inspired the students to write, design, and perform…