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  • Heat Waves Are A Local Health Hazard: Firms Should Plant Trees In Poor Neighborhoods

    "Trees can cushion urban areas from heat waves … This also means that trees reduce energy costs for running fans and air conditioners, a crucial issue for poor households that tend to spend a higher share of their household budgets on energy," write the UW's Nives Dolšak, professor of marine and environmental affairs, and Aseem Prakash, professor of political science.

    06/23/2021 | Forbes
  • Jana Mohr Lone advocates for children’s voices in new book, ‘Seen and Not Heard’

    Jana Mohr Lone, Director of the UW Center for Philosopy for Children, discusses her new book.

    06/23/2021 | UW News
  • Ageing Societies Are Not the End of the World

    “Falling fertility and rising longevity are neither accidents nor the inevitable result of personal choice. They are the signs of the multifactor, multiform advances that reflect the beneficial side of modernization. A good deal of this represents the investment wealthier countries have made in scientific knowledge, its applications to medicine and public health, and over time (and with delays), making this available to the rest of the world,” writes Scott Montgomery, lecturer of international studies at the UW.

    06/22/2021 | Global Policy Journal
  • 2021 Pilot Research Grants Awarded to Arts & Sciences Faculty Teams

    Arts & Sciences faculty teams have been awarded pilot research grants through the University of Washington's Population Health Initiative.

    06/22/2021 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • The Inequality of the GoFundMe Economy

    Online charity drives help some in need, but don’t expect them to fill the gaps in the social safety net. Mark Igra, a graduate student in sociology at the UW, and Nora Kenworthy, an associate professor of nursing and health studies at UW Bothell, are quoted.

    06/21/2021 | The New York Times
  • The dip in the US birthrate isn’t a crisis, but the fall in immigration may be

    "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in May 2021 that the nation’s total fertility rate had reached 1.64 children per woman in 2020, dropping 4% from 2019, a record low for the nation. The news led to many stories about a ‘baby bust’ harming the country ... But as a statistician and sociologist who collaborates with the United Nations Population Division to develop new statistical population forecasting methods, I’m not yet calling this a crisis," writes Adrian Raftery, professor of statistics at the UW.

    06/21/2021 | The Conversation
  • Archaeologists Propose 4,500-Year-Old Burial Mound Was World’s First Military Memorial

    Mesopotamians turned a community tomb on the Euphrates into a battle monument. Stephanie Selover, adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the UW, is quoted.

    06/21/2021 | Smithsonian
  • Seattle councilmember says he may have the formula to take on city’s homeless crisis

    Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis and the coalition behind him believes he’s found the right formula to take on the city’s homeless crisis. That formula is the JustCare program, a collaboration between the city and a coalition of businesses, service providers and outreach teams that work together to get the unsheltered into housing while also keeping public spaces clear without the need to involve police. Katherine Beckett, professor of sociology at the UW, is referenced.

    06/21/2021 | MyNorthwest
  • ArtSci Roundup: Indigenous Walking Tour, Sonolocations: A Sound Works Series, and More

    This week, attend several museum exhibitions, the Indigenous walking tour, and more.

    06/21/2021 | UW News
  • The Inequality of the GoFundMe Economy

    Mark Igra, graduate student in sociology, explains the results of his new study on digital fund-raising equality.

    06/21/2021 | The New York Times