Prof. David Baker, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, shared the 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize with two other scientists “for their use of artificial intelligence in predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences.” Their work may enable humas to “design[...]
Posts Tagged ‘University of Washington’
Monologue isn’t dialogue
This excerpt is from a story in The Daily, the University of Washington’s student newspaper, that was published online on May 2, 2024 (read it here): James Pfeiffer, professor of global health at UW, encourages people on campus to go down and engage with the encampment and in dialogue with pro[...]
May 7th, 2024 - 8:00 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Do UW professors have free speech?
Academic freedom. Freedom of inquiry. Free speech. That’s what Stuart Reges (photo, left), a University of Washington computer science professor, and the public interest law firm representing him, thought they were defending when he sued UW in federal court after administrators sought to punis[...]
April 8th, 2015 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
How Much of UW Tuition Goes to Admin?
“the total number of full-time faculty members … grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase” While recently we have read a lot about the efforts of the state legislature to cap and redu[...]
February 8th, 2015 - 11:14 pm § in The Ave Scene
WASTATE #1: The worst tax burden for the average citizen
1. Washington > ITEP index score: -12.6% > Effective tax rate lowest 20%: 16.8% (the highest) > Effective tax rate top 1%: 2.4% (5th lowest) > 2013 Gini coefficient (pre-tax): 0.46 (19th lowest) Washington’s score of -12.6% was the worst in the nation. The poorest 20% of families paid [...]
Josh Williams
First time that I encountered Josh was in the 7th grade, when I was playing basketball for a local Seattle AAU team, C.A.Y.A.. We were playing in a tournament in Yakima. I remember being amazed by a giant dunking seventh grader, that was bigger than any adult man in the gym attending the tournamen[...]