Tag: university of washington

• The 2025 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute: Celebrating Three Years of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  

  This summer the UW Data Science Minor, in collaboration with eScience, offered the third iteration of the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI). Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from several university departments gathered to work together on humanities data science research projects. During this collaborative process, students attended training sessions with guidance from HDSSI co-founders…

• Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

  

  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 SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf.  From programming languages to human languages, Niki has always had a knack for translating knowledge across different systems. Growing up in the…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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…

• How Busy are National Parks and other Public Lands? Researchers Hone Methods for Estimating Visitation

  

  By Kate Rich Visits to national parks are on the rise. In 2024, the National Park Service set a new record of 332 million recreation visits, with over 6 million more visitors than the previous year.  While these numbers indicate growing interest in outdoor recreation, climbing visitation rates present challenges for land managers working to…

• Announcing 2023 Seed Grants for AI Projects

  

  The eScience Institute has partnered with the UW Office of Research, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, the Information School, and the NSF Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS) to award seed grants to help initiate and support novel collaborations on four projects: Revealing the Hidden Lives of Cryptic Carnivores…

• UW Receives Honors in 2023 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

  

  The University of Washington and our CloudBank partners at the San Diego Supercomputing Center and UC Berkeley have been recognized in the 20th Anniversary edition of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23), in Denver, Colorado. The list of winners was revealed…

• Celebrating 15 Years of the eScience Institute

  

  This year we are celebrating the 15th anniversary since the eScience Institute was established at the University of Washington. In the past 15 years, data science tools and methods have become much more widely recognized and utilized in scientific research, as well as areas like medicine, humanities, business, art, and more. To celebrate, eScience will…

• Data Science Profile: Michelle Ndugulile

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Michelle Ndugulile (‘23) recently graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Data Science. Prior to her undergraduate studies at UW, Michelle was interested in a variety of STEM subjects, such as math, anatomy, and physiology. But it was biology that captured her interest the…