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UW Hyperloop team fuels its final dash to the national pod races with crowdfunding
The UW’s Hyperloop team is getting ready to compete in a set of pod races aimed at blazing a trail for a new means of near-supersonic travel – but they need a little help to get to the starting line.01/10/2017 | Geek Wire -
Study: Did America's growing diversity make voters more xenophobic?
A new study shows that the increasingly large minority populations in the United States may have contributed to Donald Trump's victory.
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Pitfalls of power: Seven-hour epic play ‘The Octavia’ is ‘like binge-watching Game of Thrones’
A seven-hour, unfinished epic play about Nero? Daredevil playwright Anne Washburn might be the only one who could pull it off.
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Historians in the Age of Trump
In this Inside Higher Ed piece, scholars debate what Donald Trump's election means, whether efforts to band together as a discipline to oppose him were wrong and what the future may hold.01/09/2017 | Inside Higher Ed -
Affordable Child Care Shouldn’t be Just for the Wealthy
Ruchika Tulshyan, lecturer of communication at the UW, and Tracey Whitten of The Seattle Women's Commission are quoted.01/08/2017 | The Seattle Times -
Increased Diversity Sparked Voters' Implicit Racial Biases: Study
Allison Skinner, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW is quoted.01/07/2017 | News Week -
Why white liberals need to figure out how to talk about race
Why is race so hard to discuss? Ralina Joseph, founding director of the UW’s Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity, talked with KUOW about coded racial language.01/06/2017 | KUOW -
One of NASA’s newest missions to asteroids is being led by a female astrophysicist
NASA began the new year by announcing two new missions to explore asteroids, the oldest parts of our solar system. A recent UW study on STEM fields is referenced.01/05/2017 | WordPress -
2017's '30 under 30'
Giles Eperon, research fellow in chemistry at the UW is featured in Forbes' "30 under 30" list.
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English Is the Language of Science. That Isn't Always a Good Thing
How a bias toward English-language science can result in preventable crises, duplicated efforts and lost knowledge.
01/04/2017