UW and the Community

Researchers at the University of Washington and partners at Carnegie Mellon University are collaborating on a new project to help scientists use artificial intelligence to better understand the universe.

Rice crops are in danger amid rising temperatures, according to a UW study. Jade d'Alpoim Guedes, an associate professor of archaeology, is quoted.

After nearly two years of engaging Black young adults through culturally grounded research and community conversations, the Black Adult Resilience Study has reached a major milestone. Priscilla Lui, associate professor of psychology at the UW, and Nia Jones, research coordinator and UW graduate, are quoted.

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About 75% of public schools in Washington state have implemented some limitations on cell phones. Gov. Bob Ferguson would like to see limitations at all of them.Luca Magis-Weinberg, assistant professor of psychology at the UW, is quoted.

"Artificial intelligence can increasingly perform a white-collar employees tasks. What it cannot do is vouch for the result. Yet a new slasher genre, the jobs apocalypse, threatens that AI will displace the regular nine-to-five and claims to be scarier than your grandfathers zombie flick," writes Victor Menaldo, professor of political science at the UW.

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The UWs CoMotion program announced 10 startups that secured UW-licensed intellectual property over the past year. Eight are in healthcare, spanning diagnostic tools, medical devices and new therapeutics. The other two focus on K-12 education or climate change. The UW's Michael Malone, doctoral student in mechanical engineering, Jan Whittington, associate professor of urban design and planning, Min Sun, professor of education, Scott Kennedy, associate professor of pathology in the UW School of Medicine, Dr. Ian Bennett, professor of family medicine and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the UW School of Medicine, Dr. Misbah Keen, professor of family medicine at the UW School of Medicine, Larry Mauksch, clinical professor emeritus of family medicine, Jae-Hyun Chung, associate professor of mechanical engineering, Andrea Stocco, associate professor of psychology, and David Baker, professor of biochemistry in the UW School of Medicine and director of the UW Institute for Protein Design, are mentioned.

John Gottman, professor emeritus of psychology at the UW, found that the couples who stayed together weren't the ones who avoided conflict. They were the ones who knew how to interrupt it before it became destructive.

Nia Brice’s undergraduate experience wasn’t just about one major, one course, one project or one grade. It was about finding joy, challenging herself and redefining what it means to be resilient.

In March 2021, a group of four linguists and computer scientists published their now legendary paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? It argued that large language models generate text by statistically predicting likely sequences of words rather than understanding what they are saying. Emily M. Bender, professor of linguistics at the UW, is featured.

Explore recent research from the University of Washington: low-income communities and communities of color disproportionately impacted by air pollution, an unfathomably fast chemical reaction, ups and downs in the methane record, and the cigar galaxy pictured at high resolution.

The Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSFDOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its ten-year survey of the southern sky, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

The Seattle Homelessness Count is a UW Department of Sociology project led by Professor Almquist with graduate students and UW partners. It develops and pilots new methods for counting unsheltered people experiencing homelessness, with particular attention to individuals who do not actively engage with services and are most likely to be missed by conventional enumeration.

Many people form sustained personal connections with their local crows. Those who do often consider the attention of these charismatic corvids a privilege and a source of joy. Some even call the animals their friends. Whats harder to determine, though, is whether the crows return the feeling. Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology at the UW, and John Marzluff, professor emeritus of environmental and forest sciences at the UW, are quoted.