Researcher seeks to reduce stigma of mental illness in news coverage

December 1, 2010

Stigma of mental illness

To Jennifer Stuber, the stigma associated with mental illness is black and white: that is, it’s right there in the newspaper.

Teaching moment

Two UW instructors are using a $200,000 grant to study teaching methods regarding the Elwha River and the upcoming removal of its two dams.

Half of the West Coast’s oyster supply and roughly one in 10 oysters harvested in the U.S. comes from Willapa Bay. Ensuring the bay will remain productive, without compromising its overall health, has become the mission of Jennifer Ruesink, ’96, an associate professor with UW Department of Biology.

September 1, 2010

Food junked

The UW’s Center for Public Health Nutrition got in on the fat-busting act, pioneering new research into the relationship between convenient, cheap food and our nation’s ever-growing waistlines.

Orbit of influence

Weird neighbors make life more challenging. That’s a well-established principle here on Earth, but it turns out to apply in deep space as well, according to new research.

Oil spill detectives

Two UW mechanical engineering professors were tapped by the federal government earlier this year to help figure out the amount of petroleum spilling from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico

Damaging waves

A team of UW and Veterans Affairs researchers has gathered the first direct evidence that blast waves from roadside bombs can cause long-term changes in soldiers’ brains.

Elephant vs. bird

Elephants may be the biggest factor in the impending disappearance of a tiny bird.

June 1, 2010

Birth of a field

Mary Hebert is head of the UW Obstetric-Fetal Pharmacology Research Unit, which recently received a $5 million grant to continue its work on the clinical pharmacology of medications during pregnancy.

Thought process

You might not think what you think you think. That’s the conclusion arising from the Implicit Association Test, a tool developed by UW Psychology Professor Anthony Greenwald to measure people’s unconscious attitudes.

Greener roads

A UW team has helped develop the world’s first system to rate the sustainability of road construction and maintenance projects.

Aging dinosaurs

A new fossil find suggests that the roots of the dinosaurs’ family tree are deeper than previously thought.

March 1, 2010

Seeing red

Jay and Maureen Neitz, who joined the UW School of Medicine faculty in 2008, reported in the journal Nature that they had cured color-blindness in two squirrel monkeys using gene therapy.

Getting the dirt

In a barren pit on Vashon Island, UW School of Forest Resources graduate student Kate Kurtz is growing a forest—and fighting climate change along the way.

Lightning listener

Call him the lightning listener. Robert Holzworth, UW professor of earth and space sciences, directs the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), a series of stations around the globe that monitor pulses of radio waves generated by lightning strokes.