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Jan. 20, 2010 | Engineering
News Record
Researchers
unveil green rating system for roads
An
official road-building rating system similar to Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) for buildings may be coming soon. While the
Federal Highway Administration prepares to select a team to create
national guidelines, the University of Washington and engineering firm
CH2M Hill have already compiled a comprehensive system called
Greenroads.
SOURCE
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'Greenroads' rates sustainable road projects | Jan. 13, 2010
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Jan. 23, 2010 | The
Associated Press
Water
planners look ahead
As
the climate gets warmer, the old rules for when to let water out of
Columbia Basin dams and when to hold it back won’t work. So researchers
from the UW’s Climate Impacts Group and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
have developed computer models that simulate new operations schedules
for flood control dams in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Canada based on
a climate change scenario.
SOURCE
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Managing Pacific Northwest dams for a changing climate | Jan. 21, 2010
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Jan. 18, 2010 | SeattlePI.com
As climate
warms, what will our rivers do?
Civil
engineer Alan Hamlet and UW colleagues have studied the implications of
different climate scenarios on about 300 Northwest river gauges.
Computer models showed that looking at history is no longer the best way
to predict what happens to local rivers. "It's sort of like driving
down the highway and only looking in the rear view mirror," Hamlet said.
"It only works if the road is straight."
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Jan. 24, 2010 | The
Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges
seek new ways to help women in science
By
finding on-campus resources, garnering support among top administrators,
and scaling back in response to budget cuts, today colleges can point
to new or revised policies, programs, and practices that continue to aid
in recruitment and retention of female scientists and engineers. When
they can't find the money, as happened with a University of Washington
program to help scientists and engineers with major life transitions,
the effort ends.
RELATED
MATERIAL
New grants designed to help women succeed in academe | Oct. 5, 2006
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Jan. 1, 2010 | Communications
of the ACM
New
search challenges and opportunities
Computer
scientist Oren Etzioni's research is based on the idea that if search
engines could extract more meaning from text and better understand what
people are looking for, the Web's resources could be accessed more
effectively.
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Jan. 1, 2010 | Seattle
Magazine
Nerd
report: 3-D printers
As if
the existence of 3-D printing technology isn’t cool enough, last
September the folks at Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Lab, in the UW's
mechanical engineering department, devised a way to print in glass.
SOURCE
MATERIAL
UW lab demonstrates 3-D printing in glass | Sept. 24, 2009
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Jan. 12, 2010 | The
(UW) Daily
I don't feel
geeky
For
senior Justine Sherry and other women majoring in computer science, the
disconnect between stereotypes and reality are obvious. Rather than Star
Trek posters and greasy-fingered gamers, UW students work to represent a
new age of computer scientists. Computer scientist Ed Lazowska and
junior Emma Lynch are also quoted.
SOURCE
MATERIAL
Of girls and geeks: Environment may be why women don't
like computer science | Dec. 14, 2009
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Jan. 23, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
UW
hires two industry vets to help spin out technologies
Two
local entrepreneurs have been named co-directors of the UW's newly named
New Ventures Group. Rick LeFaivre is a venture capitalist, former
computer science professor and a member of the UW College of
Engineering's Visiting Committee. Tom Clement is a UW electrical
engineering alumnus who has helped commercialize UW medical device
research.
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Jan. 4, 2010 | Xconomy
UW
startup Nanocel seeks funding and partners, wants to make computers
cooler
Last
May, the Seattle startup Nanocel won the University of Washington’s
yearly business plan competition. Now the company — founded by Dustin
Miller, a UW PhD student in mechanical engineer Vipin Kumar's lab, and
recent UW MBA grad Daniel Rossi — is gearing up for a big year in 2010.
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