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UW Books in brief: Mindful travel in an unequal world, day laborers in Brooklyn, activist educators
Recent notable books by UW faculty, several from Arts & Sciences. explore mindful international travel, men seeking work as day laborers, and activist teachers.
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Faculty Friday: Greg Wilson
Biology associate professor Greg Wilson unearths untold stories of early mammalian evolution.
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Help by design: Art assists science at UW Design Help Desk
Sometimes when science gets a little stuck, art can come to the rescue.
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5 Questions to Juan Pampin and Richard Karpen (Creative Fellowships Initiative: JACK Quartet)
In 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made a generous grant that seeded the new Creative Fellowships Initiative.
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Faculty Friday: Selim Kuru
Selim Kuru's love of literature all started with his mother, "she was an avid reader and had a library under lock and key and would release books for me according to my age."
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Climate change has contributed to droughts since 1900—and may get worse
Biology and Atmospheric Sciences professor Abigail Swann responds to a new study using tree rings to trace climate change and drought.
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Bats evolved diverse skull shapes due to echolocation, diet
Postdoctoral researchers Jessica Arbour and Abigail Curtis and Sharlene Santana, associate professor at the Burke Museum, focused on the diversity among bat skulls.
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Flowering plants, new teeth and no dinosaurs: New study sheds light on the rise of mammals
A new study identified three factors critical in the rise of mammal communities since they first emerged during the Age of Dinosaurs.
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These artists want to draw the Chinese railroad workers back into history
An artist’s inspiration can come from anywhere. For UW Painting + Drawing Professor Lin Zhi, it happened in August 2001, on a road trip from Missouri to Seattle.
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Before I had kids, I vowed never to use baby talk. Here’s why I was wrong.
Patricia Kuhl, professor and co-director of UW's I-LABS, explains the benefits of using Parentese.
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Emperor penguins flee unsteady ice after ‘unprecedented’ failure to breed
Biology professor Dee Boersma speaks about worrying population trends in Antarctica's emperor penguin colonies.
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Why you're more likely to cry on an airplane
Stephen Groening, a professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media, has been studying this phenomenon in the context of in-flight entertainment for years.
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Over eight years, the government has deported about 34,000 people via Boeing Field. King County wants it stopped.
King County execs respond to concerns raised by a report from the Jackson School's Center for Human Rights.
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Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing, study shows
Research from I-LABS shows how differences in the brains of blind individuals affects their ability to process auditory information.
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Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity
Dan Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology, weighs in on the effects of paternal age in offspring.