Research

Puget Sound Business Journal visits with UW Psychology affiliate professor on his latest work.

University of Washington, Jennifer Laird, wrote a widely cited dissertation, examining the effects of public-sector layoffs on different races

Newer, smaller, and potentially transformative businesses are today bringing forth what can best be described as a revolution in space affairs. 

Professor Wendy Stone from Psychology discusses her work with Sesame Street. 

A Op-Ed from UW Psychology and I-LABS faculty Allison Master, Sapna Cheryan and Andrew N. Meltzoff.

Ph.D. student Tracey Chaplin published a collaborative op-ed discussing sea level rise, superstorms and drought, and the potential to decouple water rights from tenancy. 

A new study by scientists at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences shows that a series of play sessions with music improved 9-month-old babies’ brain processing.

They're cute, charming, and quirky, and in some parts of the world, the birds are getting the love they deserve.

Scott Montgomery analyzes public pressure on the U.S. Treasury to reverse an earlier decision to keep its own founder, Alexander Hamilton, on the $10 bill.

The study looked at rates of foster care nationwide and found that states with more punitive criminal justice systems tended to remove children from their homes far more often.

Eli Shlizerman, assistant professor in Applied Mathematics talks about new research on the internal, genetically encoded compass that the monarchs use in flight.

"People are wired for love, that's why they keep coming back, despite heartbreaks and losses," says Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology at the UW. 

UW Astronomy's Rory Barnes speaks about the explorations for moons on newly-discovered distant planets.

Graduate students from the UW are part of a research project aimed at learning how migrants use new communications technology.

"(The) number of women who had suffered from sexual abuse at the hands of state agents was surprising," writes Hind Ahmed Zaki, doctoral student in political science at the UW.