UWTV (videos of May 2017)

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3:38 Peter Janicki Every day countless cities and communities around the world struggle to get clean, safe water. And every day, one University of Washington graduate is getting closer and closer to solving that cris...
3:25 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge From the UW Foster School of Business’ Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship – a new competition that could soon help improve medical practices around the world. One winning team has already started a ...
3:21 Husky Band Mechanic It's considered one of the greatest shows on earth or at least, one of the greatest marching bands on earth! The world-famous UW Husky Marching Band has been firing up fans for more than 80 years. ...
4:59 Edmonds CC Veterans Center The University of Washington takes great pride in supporting our military veterans through its many veteran programs and initiatives on campus. Meet one UW alum who's earning great acclaim for his ...
3:37 Labor Archives: Everett Massacre Washington state has a rich history of progressive activism - and that history has just hit a significant milestone. Relive the one hundredth anniversary of the Everett Massacre and learn how that ...
22:39 UW 360 Season 7: Episode 3 UW 360, hosted by Carolyn Douglas, is an Emmy-award winning news magazine show that features stories about the University of Washington.
In this episode:
– Meet the UW alumnus who's helping transf...
52:10 Exposure to Early Psychosocial Deprivation Can Undermine Healthy Brain Development Healthy brain development depends on experiences that occur during relatively narrow windows of time. Dr. Charles Nelson describes a 15-year longitudinal study of children abandoned at birth and ra...
56:11 Learning from Experience: How Does the Developing Brain Adapt to Environmental Adversity? Exposure to violence and other forms of environmental adversity like poverty, neglect and unstable caregiving are common among children in the United States. This talk by Dr. Katie McLaughlin, exam...
38:28 Learning to See Again: A New Era of Sight Restoration, Pt. II Advances in medicine and technology are enabling the possible restoration of sight in the blind. Learning to see again can be an extraordinary challenge. UW Professor Geoffrey Boynton will discuss ...
51:35 Decoding Intentions and Encoding Sensations: The Emerging Science of Brain-Computer Interfacing Recent advances in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have allowed direct brain control of cursors and prosthetic arms, artificial sensations, and even direct brain-to-brain communicatio...
56:48 Sensing and Deciding in the Real World: How Physics Shapes Our Choices Sensing and deciding are connected – our senses gather information to guide decisions and these decisions lead to more information. How do our brains collect information and use it to guide decisio...
22:39 UW 360 Season 7: Episode 2 UW 360, hosted by Carolyn Douglas, is an Emmy-award winning news magazine show that features stories about the University of Washington.
In this episode:
– From the UW classroom to the Yakima city...
4:03 UW Medicine Eye Institute Each year surgeons at the UW Medicine Eye Institute perform some 2500 surgeries. This story introduces us to a logger whose vision is returning, thanks to the work of UW eye surgeons.
David Dahlbe...
44:16 Learning to See Again: A New Era of Sight Restoration, Pt. I Advances in medicine and technology are enabling the possible restoration of sight in the blind. Learning to see again can be an extraordinary challenge. UW Professor Geoffrey Boynton will discuss ...
52:55 Monoclonal B Cell Lymphocytosis (MBL), Clonal Hematopoiesis and Other Age-Related Findings Monoclonal B cell lymphocytoses (MBL) are small clonal B cell expansions that can be identified by flow cytometry in the peripheral blood of healthy adults, particularly the elderly. Most MBL popul...