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Staff Spotlight: Anthony Arendt
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Anthony Arendt, our Director of Community Engagement Programs and Senior Data Science Fellow. Anthony knows the importance of hard earned data all too well. As a Research Professor at…
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Universe of IGOs: Measuring Heterogeneity and Distributions of Member States
Project Lead: Jihyeon Bae, UW Political Science Data Science Lead: Curtis Atkisson Does having a diverse mix of member states make an inter-governmental organization (IGO) more or less cooperative? Scholars have long debated whether regime heterogeneity, especially variation in democracy levels, helps or hinders intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Yet despite rich theoretical discussions, empirical findings remain…
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Creating a code base for on- and offline analysis of ultrafast X-rayspectroscopy data recorded at the chemRIXS instrument
Project Lead: Amke Nimmrich, UW Chemistry Data Science Lead: Bryna Hazelton X-ray Free Electron Lasers help us more deeply understand the details of a chemical reaction. They are large scale facilities providing ultrashort pulses of X-ray light at high repetition rates. These light pulses can be used to observe reaction dynamics in real time (femto-…
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Climate Ready Vines Thermal Image Analysis for Cooling Potential
Project Lead: Amelia Keyser-Gibson, UW Environmental and Forest Sciences Data Science Leads: Noah Benson and Bernease Herman The Climate Ready Vines project is a multi-state collaborative research effort to evaluate and monitor potential energy saving, water use, ecological, physiological and horticultural characteristics of vine plants across different climates and latitudes in the Western U.S. Vine taxa…
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Building a Sustainable, Open Source Workflow for the Self-Sufficiency Standard
Project Leads: Lisa Manzer, Annie Kucklick, and Sarah Brolliar, UW Social Work Data Science Lead: Anshul Tambay The Self-Sufficiency Standard measures how much income families need to meet their basic needs without public or private support. Used by researchers, policymakers, and advocates nationwide, the Standard draws on detailed local data such as housing, child care,…
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Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Senior Social Scientist Anissa Tanweer. From field site to workplace, eScience has come to serve many different roles for Anissa over the years. Being a qualitative interpretivist researcher at…
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Staff Spotlight: Cordero Core
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Cordero Core, a Senior Research Software Engineer at our Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). In and outside of the office, Cordero brings creative insights to technical problems. At SSEC,…
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Staff Spotlight: Curtis Atkisson
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Data Scientist Curtis Atkisson. Prior to becoming a researcher of human behavior, Curtis explored human nature through a different medium. After graduating from high school at the age of…
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Staff Spotlight: Bryna Hazelton
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Bryna Hazelton, our Director of Research Programs and Senior Research Scientist. Given her upbringing, some might find it unsurprising that Bryna developed a passion for research. She grew up…
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BioEthics: Lay Summaries for Research Participants
Partner: Kate MacDuffie SSEC Engineers: Niki Burggraff, Apoorva Sheera, and Ying-Hsiang Huang Research Goals and Domain The Bioethics Team from the University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) consults researchers and personnel on how to ethically engage with research participants and human subjects who inquire about their research studies. Researchers who conduct human…