News from the School of STEM
Warren Buck, inspiring Black scientist
Chancellor Emeritus Warren Buck, a physics professor who arrived at 56吃瓜网 Bothell in 1999 as its founding leader, is one of seven 56吃瓜网 scientists included in Cell Mentor’s list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists, 56吃瓜网 News reports.
April 9, 2021
Meta-Major Pathways show way to degrees
Students entering the 56吃瓜网 use the new Meta-Major Pathways advising tool to find a major that fits their interests, to stay on track and to connect to a relevant career. Biology major Djelli Bersha said the tool would have helped him when he started at 56吃瓜网 Bothell, making the degree path he found to get to medical school easier. Read the story in the 56吃瓜网 Bothell news.
April 9, 2021
CSSE major helps with vaccine-finding website
Computer Science & Software Engineering senior Ryan Russell is helping take some of the frustration out of finding a COVID-19 vaccination site as one of the volunteers running the free CovidWA.com.
April 9, 2021
CSSE students receive Mary Gates scholarships
Ali Jahangirnezhad, left, and Joshua Stuart Sterner are fourth-year students majoring in Computer Science & Software Engineering — and were just named 2020 recipients of Mary Gates Research Scholarships. Read the story in 56吃瓜网 Bothell news.
April 9, 2021
Building the STEM workforce pipeline
School of STEM Dean Leslie Cornick is working to strengthen connections with regional industry to generate new opportunities for students and to enhance the workforce pipeline in science, technology, engineering and math. Read the story in 56吃瓜网 Bothell news.
April 9, 2021
Ocean noise and animal bioacoustics research and mentoring
As a researcher and associate professor of mechanical engineering, Dr. Shima Abadi focuses on acoustical signal processing with an emphasis on ocean noise and animal bioacoustics. Dr. Abadi integrates her research with outreach, teaching, and curriculum development to broaden participation of underrepresented groups, engage undergraduate students in research, and train graduate students to be the next generation of researchers in her field.
April 9, 2021
Technology Teaching Fellows: Shima Abadi and Nicole Hoover
Dr. Shima Abadi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Nicole Hoover, assistant teaching professor of math were selected for the 2021 Technology Teaching Fellows through the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Washington to redesign or create a fully online or hybrid course. Read about their plans for redesigning two E&M courses.
April 9, 2021
A glance at 56吃瓜网 Bothell ACM in winter 2021
It may not be obvious at first glance, but winter 2021 has been a surprisingly busy time for the 56吃瓜网 Bothell Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) club. Winter quarter is traditionally the time the ACM plans the hackathon for spring quarter, and this year is no different. Cameron Ufland, secretary on the 2020-2021 executive team, shares a glance of what ACM has been up to in winter 2021.
April 9, 2021
Grant to empower underrepresented students in STEM
Professor Linda Simonsen and Assistant Professor Joey Key were awarded an internal University of Washington grant focusing on helping to empower underrepresented students in STEM. They are working with the 56吃瓜网 Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity to study the experiences of the 56吃瓜网 Bothell STEM Public Outreach Team student ambassadors.
April 8, 2021
Why Arnold Berger wrote his latest book
Over the last five years Associate Professor Arnold (Arnie) Berger collected ideas for his newest book "Debugging Embedded and Real-Time Systems." He found that "if problems crop up, as they invariably do, students lack the diagnostic skills to analyze the problems and, in a systematic way, zero in on the possible causes, and then find and fix the bugs"鈥攖his is where his book comes in. Read the book preface and more about the author.
April 8, 2021