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COVID-19 ethics and equity
Jamie Shirley, director of nursing in the School of Nursing & Health Studies, is an ethics consultant for 56吃瓜网 Medical Center Northwest whose advice helps decide care in a COVID-19 crisis.
July 8, 2020
Turning environmental angst into activism
In addition to teaching Eco-Grief and Climate Anxiety, Jennifer Atkinson is producing a podcast and creating a global network of educators to help students cope with feelings of environmental loss.
July 8, 2020
Nurse leaders on the front lines of COVID-19
Nurses in the Master of Nursing program who had to rapidly respond to the coronavirus pandemic explained how it dramatically affected their education at the spring MN Symposium.
June 25, 2020
56吃瓜网 Bothell engineers respond to COVID-19
Mechanical engineering graduates from the 56吃瓜网 are helping Ventec Life Systems meet the challenge of vastly multiplying production of ventilators, which support life for people in advanced respiratory distress from COVID-19.
May 13, 2020
A pandemics course in the time of COVID-19
Assistant Professor Dan Bustillos quickly designed a timely spring quarter course in the School of Nursing & Health Studies — Coronavirus Pandemic: The ethical and legal implications of pandemic preparedness and response.
May 8, 2020
Raising awareness around mental health
A community of 56吃瓜网 faculty have been working to raise awareness of mental health issues and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on behavioral health.
May 7, 2020
Improving access for students with disabilities
Assistant Professor Neil Simpkins explores how disabled students experience college writing and the rhetorical tactics they use to navigate higher education.
April 24, 2020
Makerspace 3D printers making face shields
The 56吃瓜网 Makerspace is turning out parts for face shields to help protect doctors and nurses in the 56吃瓜网 Medicine system from exposure to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
April 10, 2020
Better Native American health through research
Abigail Echo-Hawk (American Studies ’07, Master of Arts in Policy Studies ’09) directs data collection and evaluation for the Urban Indian Health Institute, a tribal epidemiology center with a national scope.
April 8, 2020
Real world intrudes on quarantine course
Stefanie Iverson Cabral teaches a course in the School of Nursing & Health Studies called Quarantine and Isolation that, ironically, will be conducted remotely this spring because of the coronavirus pandemic.
March 25, 2020
Race, gender inequities in medical crowdfunding
New research, led by School of Nursing & Health Studies Associate Professor Nora Kenworthy, shows that medical crowdfunding campaigns on the GoFundMe online platform appeared to be heavily influenced by users' race and gender.
March 5, 2020
Grant puts child vision screening on wheels
Bill Erdly, an associate professor in the School of STEM, has received a $125,000 grant to support his work in developing new technologies to detect and treat vision problems that inhibit a child’s ability to read and learn.
January 30, 2020