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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.

January 15, 2020

It’s time to start adapting to climate change

How we respond to the impacts of climate change is a discussion Margaret Redsteer encourages as a researcher and assistant professor in UW Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.

November 20, 2019

Sponge city: Planning climate change in China

Associate Professor Eric Salathé is creating a climate model for an area of southeast China that forecasts decades into the future. The simulation will help urban planners anticipate sudden, heavy rain storms and design a “sponge city” to prevent flooding.

November 14, 2019

Student researcher has good ‘molecular hands’

A Biology major and president of the UW Bothell Biology Club, Kiana Imani received a Mary Gates scholarship to support her research with Assistant Professor Thelma Madzima who praises her attention to detail.

November 14, 2019

Landscape evolving in volcano’s blast zone

Research led by Cynthia Chang sends students into the blast zone of Mount Saint Helens to track plant succession in an area that looked like a moonscape after the volcano’s big 1980 eruption.

October 24, 2019

Monitoring and protecting wildlife

Six faculty and staff members whose research includes monitoring local plants and wildlife or who work for sustainability share their knowledge with the public in a Campus Research Connection Oct. 18 in Discovery Hall.

October 3, 2019

Conservatory a base for learning and landscaping

The many uses of the Sarah Simonds Green Conservatory over the past six years — courses, research, campus landscaping, wetlands restoration — show just how valuable it is as a campus resource.

October 3, 2019

A chatbot that cares about caregivers

One of this year’s projects under the UW Population Health Initiative is a chatbot being developed to help caregivers in families with children who have chronic health conditions. It’s called CocoBot.

September 18, 2019

Curious about crows? Campers consider corvids

In the newest Pacific Science Center summer camp developed by the University of Washington Bothell, elementary students learned about the science and culture of crows on the campus where thousands of them roost.

August 7, 2019

Preparing for wildfire smoke indoors

UW Bothell students are helping evaluate enhanced air filtering at Seattle community centers that offer residents fresh air when wildfire smoke falls over the city.

July 24, 2019