by Susan Keown | Jul 6, 2021 | ScienceWire
Even though FDA-authorized coronavirus vaccines are now widely available, writes Hannah Weinberger (@Weinbergrrrrr) for Crosscut, people continue to participate in clinical trials of new COVID-19 vaccines. Her story discusses a new University of Washington clinical...
by Susan Keown | Jul 6, 2021 | ScienceWire
A new deep learning method, writes Sarah McQuate (@potassiumwhale) for UW News, can turn a photo of flowing water, smoke or clouds into an endlessly looping, real-looking video. The University of Washington researchers say that by adding more visual information into...
by Mark Harris | Apr 21, 2021 | Past Events
Telling Stories: on culturally response Artificial Intelligence Member event (online) – March 18 2021 New technologies often export the assumptions, experiences, and values of their developers, assumptions that do not always carry over to different world views....
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
For the New York Times, Wudan Yan reports on an unusual way to clean up a Superfund site contaminated with carcinogens: Phytoremediation with microbiome-boosted trees. Wudan (@wudanyan) talks with a University of Washington plant microbiologist who discovered the set...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
In her first feature for UW News, Sarah McQuate writes about a new but now common issue for both professors and students: online classes. Remote teaching is hard enough for lecture courses. How, Sarah asks, are professors reworking their classes with labs, fieldwork,...
