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Mystery of Spinning Atomic Fragments Solved at Last
New experiments have answered the decades-old question of how pieces of splitting nuclei get their spins. George Bertsch, professor emeritus of physics at the UW, is quoted.
02/24/2021 | Scientific American -
New Initiative Focuses on Revitalization of Arts Spaces
Public-private partnership will renovate Art and Music Buildings.
02/24/2021 | College of Arts & Sciences -
The dogs that grew wool and the people who love them
Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest bred little, fluffy white dogs that provided for them, both materially and spiritually. A discovery made by Coast Salish spinning researcher Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa at the UW’s Burke Museum is mentioned.
02/23/2021 | Hakai Magazine -
Learn Hindi from the best Universities in the World
The University of Washington is featured in this article about the world's best schools to learn Hindi.
02/23/2021 | The Daily -
ArtSci Roundup: Fermented Face with Candice Lin, After Democracy: A Conversation with Zizi Papacharissi, and More
This week at the UW, attend Fermented Face with Candice Lin, the School of Drama's dis/re/connection, and more.
02/23/2021 | UW News -
UW launches Faculty Diversity Initiative
The UW has launched a new initiave to promote faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion, including $5 million for faculty hiring.
02/23/2021 | UW News -
CAS IN THE NEWS
A sampling of recent stories in local and national media featuring College of Arts & Sciences faculty.
February 2021 Perspectives -
There's a rare yellow penguin on South Georgia island, and biologists can't quite explain it
Black-and-white tuxedos may be the conventional dress code in the penguin world, but one dashing individual is breaking the status quo with an à la mode yellow coat. Dee Boersma, professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.
02/22/2021 | Live Science -
Will downtown Seattle bounce back after the pandemic?
After months of deserted streets and shuttered storefronts, the businesses, institutions and individuals that depend on downtown Seattle are desperate to see it come back to life, but have little certainty whether or when it can regain its earlier vitality. Margaret O'Mara, professor of history at the UW, is quoted.
02/22/2021 | The Seattle Times -
Seattle touts itself as the country’s most literate, most educated city. Whoa. We used to be pretty rough.
Dig a little, and Seattle’s scrubby past inevitably pops up. We might be all high-tech now, all digital wizards, but back there are the city’s ancestors. They could be rough. Really rough. John Findlay, professor emeritus of history at the UW, is referenced.
02/22/2021 | The Seattle Times