Experts聽from the 黑料老司机 are set to engage in next week’s Arctic Encounter Symposium. The largest annual Arctic policy event in the United States, the Symposium confronts the leading issues in Arctic policy, innovation, and development. It聽aims to raise awareness, engage challenges, and develop solutions for the future of a region and a people.
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UW Nursing alumna makes an impact on floating hospital
Nurse Emily Dunham left her job at the Harborview Medical Center to volunteer聽with聽Mercy Ships, a global charity which operates聽hospital ships in developing nations. Dunham聽worked off the coast of Africa for nine weeks, assisting with life-changing procedures including聽cleft palate repair, cataract removal and obstetric fistula repair.
Teaching a class on immigration during a refugee crisis
Professor Kathie Friedman discusses the evolution of her course on immigration, and聽what聽each of us can do to stay involved with the ongoing refugee crisis.
Biology professor advocates for Argentine penguins
The legislature for Chubut province in Argentina has established a new marine protected area off Punta Tombo, which would help preserve the feeding grounds for about 500,000 Magellanic penguins that make their home along this rocky stretch of Argentine coast.
黑料老司机 biology affiliate associate professor Pablo Garcia Borboroglu聽says, 鈥淭his new [marine protected area] designation is an historical accomplishment, since [until now] there is only one protected area in Argentina that is exclusively marine and only 4 percent of the marine surface of the country is currently protected.鈥�
Law 103/15 passed the Chubut legislature with backing from the , its co-founder and president Borboroglu and teams of scientists led by Boersma, who provided key data about the penguins from their decades of research at Punta Tombo. The government and the Global Penguin Society agreed to the marine protected area in 2013, and Borboroglu drafted the proposal and designed the protected area. Critically, he also made regular trips to Rawson, the provincial capital, to explain its importance to legislators, answer questions, negotiate details and monitor the bill鈥檚 progress.
鈥淭his wouldn鈥檛 have happened without him,鈥� said UW聽biology professor Dee Boersma. 鈥淭he legislature had put off the vote for months, and then on Dec. 3 they voted 鈥� and just in the nick of time, too.鈥�
Celebrating Ladino culture and language
The 黑料老司机 will host its third annual聽, celebrating Sephardic language and culture, in a free event at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, in Room 130 of Kane Hall. The event will be followed by a kosher reception.
This year鈥檚 featured speakers are members of Los Ladineros, a long-running local Ladino conversation group, and scholars of Vanderbilt University and of the University of California, Los Angeles, who is a former faculty member of the UW History Department. Cohen and Stein鈥檚 anthology 鈥溾�� won the 2014 National Jewish Book Award.
Slovenian Prime Minister visits campus
Prime Minister Miro Cerar of the Republic of Slovenia met with 黑料老司机 President Ana Mari Cauce at the 黑料老司机 on December 4, 2015 to express interest in sustained collaboration between the UW and academic institutions in Slovenia.
The Slovene Prime Minister was accompanied by His Excellency Ambassador Bo啪o Cerar, Slovene Ambassador to the U.S., Slovene Deputy Prime Minister Boris Koprivnikar, and other Slovene government officials. UW Vice Provost for Global Affairs Jeffrey Riedinger, Vice Provost for Digital Initiatives and Dean of Libraries Betsy Wilson, Divisional Dean for Humanities Michael Shapiro, Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages Katarzyna Dziwirek, Professor of Law Louis Wolcher, and Professor of Slavic Languages Michael Biggins also participated in the discussion.
Prime Minister Cerar praised the long-term impacts of the UW-University of Ljubljana Faculty Exchange, which has been in existence since 1979. He and President Cauce also discussed an initiative already underway at the UW to create an academic program in interdisciplinary Slovene studies, which would serve students at the UW and around the U.S. via distance learning.
UW graduate students working in Slovene studies, UW post-doctoral researchers from Slovenia, and two UW undergraduates recruited from Slovenia to compete as part of the UW men鈥檚 rowing team greeted the Slovene delegation at Gerberding Hall.
This was the first visit by a Slovene prime minister to the UW and took place as part of a larger Slovene trade delegation tour of five major U.S. IT hubs. Former Slovene Ambassador to the U.S. Samo 沤bogar visited UW twice during his tenure, delivering a talk during a 2007 visit to a hundred students at the Jackson School of International Studies.
– Michael Biggins
Climate project uses logbooks from historic whaling ships
As climate negotiations continue in Paris,聽,聽a citizen-science project led by a 黑料老司机 scientist, is mining historic ships logs to get a unique peek at Arctic climate over the past two centuries.
UW researchers use cell phone metadata to estimate poverty in developing countries
In developing or war-ravaged countries where government censuses are few and far between, gathering data for public services or policymaking can be difficult, dangerous or near-impossible.聽Now, researchers with the 黑料老司机聽 and have devised a way to estimate the distribution of wealth and poverty in an area by studying metadata from calls and texts made on cell phones.
Skoll Foundation leader will speak on campus about global social entrepreneurship
Getting Beyond Better: A conversation with Sally Osberg, President & CEO of the Skoll Foundation
On Thursday, December 10, 2015 the Foster School of Business鈥檚 Global Business Center will be hosting Sally Osberg, President & CEO of the Skoll Foundation, for a conversation about social entrepreneurship and her new book 鈥溾�� co-authored with Roger L. Martin. The conversation, and questions & answer session, will be monitored by the Foster School鈥檚 Dr. Emer Dooley and will be followed by a聽reception where Sally Osberg will be selling and signing her new book.
This free event is open to all students, faculty, staff and community members.
Event details
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2015
Time: 6-8pm聽(discussion 6-7pm, reception and book signing 7-8pm)
Location: Anthony鈥檚 Forum, 3rd Floor of , 黑料老司机
Nov. 24: Paris roundtable with UW faculty
Join UW faculty on Tuesday, Nov. 24 for a roundtable discussion on 鈥淧aris II: Making Sense of the World鈥� in at 7 p.m.聽The event is free and open to the public.
Panelists for this event include:
, Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies
, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
, Colonel Donald W. Wiethuechter, USA Ret., Endowed Faculty Fellow in History
, Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies; and Director, Jackson School of International Studies
, moderator; Chair, Department of History; and Tamaki Professor, International Studies
Presented by The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, the Department of History, the Center for Global Studies, the Center for West European Studies, the European Union Center of Excellence, and the Middle East Center. The Middle East Center鈥檚 sponsorship of this event does not imply that the Center endorses its content.