News from the School of STEM
Category: Research
Warren Buck, inspiring Black scientist
Chancellor Emeritus Warren Buck, a physics professor who arrived at UW Bothell in 1999 as its founding leader, is one of seven UW scientists included in Cell Mentor’s list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists, UW News reports.
April 9, 2021
CSSE students receive Mary Gates scholarships
Ali Jahangirnezhad, left, and Joshua Stuart Sterner are fourth-year students majoring in Computer Science & Software Engineering — and were just named 2020 recipients of Mary Gates Research Scholarships. Read the story in UW Bothell news.
April 9, 2021
Ocean noise and animal bioacoustics research and mentoring
As a researcher and associate professor of mechanical engineering, Dr. Shima Abadi focuses on acoustical signal processing with an emphasis on ocean noise and animal bioacoustics. Dr. Abadi integrates her research with outreach, teaching, and curriculum development to broaden participation of underrepresented groups, engage undergraduate students in research, and train graduate students to be the next generation of researchers in her field.
April 9, 2021
Grant to empower underrepresented students in STEM
Professor Linda Simonsen and Assistant Professor Joey Key were awarded an internal University of Washington grant focusing on helping to empower underrepresented students in STEM. They are working with the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity to study the experiences of the UW Bothell STEM Public Outreach Team student ambassadors.
April 8, 2021
Why Arnold Berger wrote his latest book
Over the last five years Associate Professor Arnold (Arnie) Berger collected ideas for his newest book "Debugging Embedded and Real-Time Systems". He found that "if problems crop up, as they invariably do, students lack the diagnostic skills to analyze the problems and, in a systematic way, zero in on the possible causes, and then find and fix the bugs"—this is where his book comes in. Read the book preface and more about the author.
April 8, 2021