Perspectives Newsletter

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  What Attracts Hungry Mosquitoes

  Biology professor Jeff Riffell is learning which scents and colors make certain people tempting targets for hungry mosquitoes.

  UW News

Opportunities to Explore

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  An Evening with Art Wolfe

  September 20, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  HUB North Ballroom
  Photographer Art Wolfe’s most recent book, “Wild Lives,” is a celebration of the beauty, ferocity, and revival of Earth’s endangered wildlife. At this UW Alumni Association event, Wolfe (’75) and co-author Gregory A. Green will share stories and photos from the field and insights about the wonderful world that surrounds us. Free admission but advance registration is required.

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  SLAM!

  September 28, 7:30 pm
  Meany Hall – Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater
  Theater and cirque meet the mat as Cirque FLIP Fabrique joins forces with renowned director and playwright Robert Lepage and Ex Machina to create SLAM!, a celebration of wrestling in all its many forms. In a spectacular display of acrobatics and strength, the SLAM! acrobats embody an array of characters to recreate the passionate atmosphere of wrestling matches.

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  Rachel Lee Priday, Fluid Dynamics

  October 8, 7:30 pm
  Meany Hall – Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater
  Violinist and UW School of Music (SoM) professor Rachel Lee Priday celebrates the release of her solo debut album, Fluid Dynamics, with a live multi-media world premiere performance that is the result of a collaboration with Georgy Manucharyan, assistant professor in the UW School of Oceanography. The performance combines videos of fluid motion experiments with new commissions from leading young American composers, performed by Priday and pianist Cristina Valdés, SoM artist in residence and director of the Modern Music Ensemble.

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  Immigration is an Indigenous Issue

  October 9, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
  Communications Building, Room 202
  Tony Lucero (chair and professor, Department of Comparative History of Ideas; professor of international studies) and human rights activist Mike Wilson (Tohono O’odham) discuss their new book, “What Side Are You On?: A Tohono O’odham Life Across Borders,” a memoir about one Indigenous man’s journey through environmental injustice, military service in Central America, struggles with Christianity, filmmaking, and human rights activism along the US-Mexico borderlands. The discussion will be in conversation with UW faculty Diana Flores Ruíz (Cinema & Media Studies) and Vanessa Freije (Jackson School of International Studies).

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  Catalyst, Chamber Dance Company

  October 10 – 12, 7:30 pm
  October 13, 2:00 pm
  Meany Hall – Studio Theatre
  The Chamber Dance Company presents six new dances and original and repurposed scores, ranging from shredding guitar riffs to mellifluous piano. Set on a cast of extraordinary performers, including professionals from the Seattle dance community, these new dances share the dynamism and virtuosity for which the company is renowned.

In The News

• Opinion: Why Seattle’s idea for banishment in crime ‘hot spots’ won’t work

  Rather than banning specific people from parts of the city to reduce crime, Seattle should look to other successful initiatives that involve skillful regulation of space, enforcement of conduct expectations, and multidepartment coordination, write Katherine Beckett, UW professor of sociology and of law, societies and justice, and co-author Lisa Daugaard.

  The Seattle Times

• Human-wildlife overlap expected to increase across more than half of Earth’s land by 2070

  Due to human population growth and climate change, the overlap between humans and animals will increase substantially across much of the planet in less than 50 years. Our overlap with 22,000+ vertebrate species will rise across nearly 57% of Earth’s land by 2070 according to a collaborative study by scientists at the University of Michigan, University of Washington, and University College London.

  UW News

• Analysis: The problem with pronatalism — pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme

  In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates, but such efforts are usually unnecessary, according to Win Brown, senior program officer at the UW Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, and co-author Emily Klancher Merchant (UC-Davis), who explain that manipulating fertility is an inefficient means of solving social, economic, and environmental problems.

  The Conversation

• Biting into resilient materials

  To develop next-generation fracture-resistant materials, a UW research team is gaining insights from the hardest tissue in all mammals: tooth enamel. The team, led by Dwayne Arola, UW professor of materials science and engineering, has been partnering with the Burke Museum in the UW College of Arts & Sciences to access animal teeth specimens in the museum’s collection for research and testing.

  UW College of Engineering