News from the Office of Connected Learning
Category: Connected Learning
UW Bothell helping bring back ‘little red fish’
UW Bothell faculty Jeff Jensen and Rob Turner and their students are working on a project to return once-plentiful kokanee salmon to Lyon Creek in Lake Forest Park. Jensen is using a remote site egg incubator, and Turner is monitoring the water quality of storm runoff.
September 17, 2022
UW Bothell working to reduce foul odor of latrines, airing issue in global sanitation
The University of Washington Bothell is helping develop a disinfectant to reduce the foul odor of latrines. Making pit toilets less offensive could improve sanitation in developing regions of the world where defecation in the open air spreads disease.
September 17, 2022
Computer modeling reveals secrets of teamwork
With a three-year $400,000 government grant, Deanna Kennedy employs student researchers to help study teamwork and discover how to keep people on the same page.
September 17, 2022
Listening to the noise that whales hear
Assistant Professor Shima Abadi has received a three-year $850,000 grant from the Navy to analyze underwater noise in the Pacific to better understand the impact of human activities on marine life.
September 17, 2022
The mysterious snerka of Lake Washington
Kokanee that once filled Lake Washington streams may not be entirely gone. Ichthyologist Jeff Jensen is studying kokanee-like fish known as snerka.
September 17, 2022
Engaging undergraduates in math research
Pietro Paparella, an assistant professor of mathematics, studies theoretical aspects of non-negative matrices, which found one profitable application when Google started ranking websites.
September 17, 2022
One-lake wonders facing climate change – a study on the Arctic grayling fish
The survival of Arctic grayling in Washington could be imperiled, says Jeff Jensen, a senior lecturer in biology, because warming temperatures affect the only stream in the state where the fish spawn.
September 17, 2022
Researching crowdsensing in German smart city
Over the next three summers, University of Washington Bothell students will be traveling to Germany to develop crowdsensing technology at the University of Bamberg, which conducts smart city research in the Bavarian city.
September 17, 2022
Zaneveld receives $940,000 NSF CAREER award
Jesse Zaneveld, an assistant professor in the School of STEM’s Division of Biological Sciences, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award worth more than $940,000 over five years to support his research in coral reef microbiology.
September 17, 2022
Gravitational wave science finds a home in comics
An educational comic about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has a character inspired by Joey Key, a member of the LIGO team and an assistant professor in the School of STEM.
September 17, 2022