Okahata: Discrimination’s Impacts

Okahata: Discrimination’s Impacts

New member Leila Okahata (@LeilaOkahata) writes for UCLA’s Daily Bruin about research that discovered some of the biological basis for the link between experiences of discrimination and poor health. The researchers discovered changes in patterns of connectivity in...
Nelson: U.S. Water Crisis

Nelson: U.S. Water Crisis

Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) wrote a piece for Time Magazine on the crisis of access to clean water and sanitation in the U.S., where more than 2 million do not have indoor plumbing and many more do not have safe drinking water. Keying off of the recent environmental...
Hu: Botanical Sexism?

Hu: Botanical Sexism?

Jane C. Hu (@jane_c_hu) was awarded an honorable mention in the journalism category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for her story in Slate on “botanical sexism,” which the judges said was “a great example of a fun and interesting debunking article.” The...
Zaske: Bear Research

Zaske: Bear Research

Sara Zaske (@WSUZaske), writing for Washington State University, was awarded an honorable mention in the institutional category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for her piece on the WSU Bear Center. She shows how researchers at the center work with the...
Scanlan: ‘Pests’ Review

Scanlan: ‘Pests’ Review

Adrienne Ross Scanlan wrote a review of “Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains” by Bethany Brookshire for the New York Journal of Books. Brookshire explains how cultural perceptions, changes in human society and human philosophy assign negative or positive...
Johnson-Groh: Neutrino Surprises

Johnson-Groh: Neutrino Surprises

Mara Johnson-Groh won the institutional category in the 2022 NSWA Best of the Northwest Awards for her story on neutrinos in Symmetry Magazine. The judges wrote that her piece “did a great job of translating an incredibly tricky subject”: the second-most common...