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Physics professor Gerald Seidler has been awarded an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to create waste disposal caskets for nuclear fuel byproducts.

The next six months of the coronavirus pandemic may look dispiriting. But that doesn’t mean we’re doomed. Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.

Experts say so-called breakthrough cases remain rare, and deaths among vaccinated people are "effectively zero." Adrian Raftery, professor of statistics and of sociology at the UW, is quoted.

"As a marine biologist who has studied the effects of extreme weather events for decades, I expected it would be bad. The 'heat dome' brought record high air temperatures to the Pacific Northwest, and for the plants and animals living along our extensive coastlines the late June timing could not have been worse," writes Emily Carrington, professor of biology at the UW.

For thousands of years, the gray whales of the eastern Pacific have undertaken one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal — starting in the cold waters of the Arctic, then down past the densely populated coasts and beaches of California before finally finding refuge in the warm, shallow estuaries of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, only to turn around and head back north a few weeks later. Starting in December 2018, this magnificent migration took a fatal turn. Sue Moore, affiliate professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.

"I was born in a small port town in Japan and moved to Eugene, Oregon, when I was 5 years old, where I lived until I graduated college. I’m half-Asian — my mom is Japanese, and my dad is white — but that was enough to be mostly treated as Asian growing up in a town that’s around 83% white and only around 4.5% Asian," writes The Seattle Times' Jade Yamazaki Stewart. Connie So, teaching professor of American ethnic studies at the UW, is referenced.

Amazon announced Thursday it intends to delay reopening its offices until Jan. 3, a move that raises fresh questions about the pace of recovery in Seattle and Bellevue where well-paid workers from Amazon and other tech firms are critical economic drivers. Margaret O'Mara, professor of history at the UW, is quoted.

Assistant Professor of Art History Juliet Sperling will be teaching a new course at the School of Art + Art History + Design focusing on former Professor of Art Jacob Lawrence's work and teaching.

Rachel Roston, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, describes her new research on the evolution of blowholes.

James Davenport, a research assistant professor of astronomy, explains his new research on superflares.