Stories from Fred Hutch News, Fred Hutch Cancer Center:
Evolutionary cell biologist Dr. Grant King named a Hanna Gray Fellow
Long fascinated by life seen and unseen, King awarded eight years of funding to finish postdoctoral training at Fred Hutch and establish an independent lab
Cold air makes oxygen toxic for worms
Fred Hutch study shows C. elegans, a microscopic worm, can survive low temperatures if oxygen supply is also low
Tricking cells into trashing cancer
Fred Hutch chemical biologist rapidly reduces lung tumors in mice with a tagging system that grabs cancer-causing proteins and hauls them out with the molecular trash
Founded in 1975 to honor a brother, Fred Hutch Cancer Center pursued bold science, pioneered a cure for blood diseases that changed medicine and became a world-class biomedical research and clinical care institution
Sharing AI insights without sharing patient data
Fred Hutch Q&A about leading alliance to leverage power of artificial intelligence responsibly in research and care
Blocking a cancer escape hatch
Fred Hutch graduate student wins NIH F31 award to study structure of a key protein that helps blood vessels grow, but also helps cancer spread when it malfunctions
Fred Hutch cancer biologist wins V Foundation Scholar Award to explore role of protein sugaring in leukemia tumors that survive chemotherapy
New deputy CMO brings Texas-sized expertise to Fred Hutch
Dr. Nicole Fleming takes over daily operations of South Lake Union clinic that has grown by 30% in three years
Finding a new way to break the supply chain fueling advanced prostate cancer
Fred Hutch researcher wins a $1M grant for a London-Seattle collaboration to find new therapies for drug-resistant prostate cancer
Fred Hutch Postbaccalaureate Scholar Program bridges gap between college and graduate school for aspiring scientists
Fred Hutch researchers discover why some HIV-1 variants are more transmissible than others, which could generate new approaches to stop the virus that causes AIDS at cell entry
Making the most of a small supply
Fred Hutch researchers receive $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the fundamental biology of five rare liver cancers that could lead to new treatments one day
Almost as good as delivering flowers
Volunteer driver Bill Conquergood fights traffic so out-of-state patients don’t have to
Priming the pump for future funding
Fred Hutch postdoctoral researchers win NIH training fellowship for pancreatic cancer and kinetochore projects
Cell biologist Dr. Susan Parkhurst named 2024 ASCB fellow
Fred Hutch researcher honored by American Society for Cell Biology discusses integrating generations of scientists through mentorship
Making the leap from postdoc to principal investigator
Fred Hutch postdoctoral research fellow hopes to run her own lab with a transition award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Curiosity, connection and C. elegans
How a Fred Hutch worm study gives hope to families affected by an extremely rare genetic disorder
More to brain tumors than meets the eye
Fred Hutch researchers find new way to classify tumors based on their underlying biology rather than how they look
Getting a paw up in the cat-and-mouse game with the COVID-19 virus
Fred Hutch researchers invent method to quickly and safely test thousands of mutations to predict which ones could help the virus escape our defenses
Fred Hutch researchers discover molecular switch for an appetite-regulating hormone, reviving dashed hopes for an obesity drug
Fred Hutch recommits to DEI amid national backlash
4th annual Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit defends principles
Fred Hutch and UW hematology/oncology fellows win ASCO Young Investigator Awards
Winners represent broad range of research
How Fred Hutch researchers revealed the biology behind a drug’s success in a rare liver cancer and paired it with another drug for a one-two punch
STORIES ABOUT SCIENCE OF TEACHING AND LEARNING:
Op-Ed for The Seattle Times
Liberty and justice mean nothing without literacy
Without re-engineering children’s brains to learn to read, some can expect to live shorter, less healthy, less happy and less prosperous lives than their better educated fellow citizens.
Stories from The Seattle Times’ Education Lab project:
Seattle-area Somali community unites to embrace state’s new child-care standards
When the state introduced higher standards for child care, many feared that home-based centers, including those run by women from Somalia, would close. But a group of them joined together to make sure that didn’t happen.
Study reveals how baby talk boosts language development
A new study creates a mathematical model of teaching to show how the exaggerated sounds of “parentese” helps babies learn language.
We expel preschool kids at three times as often as K-12 students. Here’s how to change that
Preschoolers get expelled at three times the rate of students in elementary, middle and high schools. But when teachers get regular help from mental-health coaches, they expel at half the rate of those who don’t.
Risky change in teaching pays off at Bellevue’s Sammamish High
Teachers at Bellevue’s Sammamish High School led a five-year, schoolwide change that increased participation in challenging courses without sacrificing test scores.
Between the ears: What stone-age toolmaking tells us about learning
Scientists are replicating the toolmaking skills of prehistoric people to better understand the ways we teach and learn today.
Knowledge about the natural world in kindergarten predicts later success on science tests
New study shows that gaps in what kids know about the natural and social world in kindergarten persist through middle school.
How to help struggling readers get the most from advanced coursework
High schools are lowering the bar for enrollment in advanced courses that give kids a leg up for college, but many students need help boosting their reading skills.
Will more money for schools really help kids? New study may have long-term answer
While research is mixed on whether increases in school spending lead to better results for students, a study suggests that influxes of dollars from court decisions lead to higher graduation rates and earnings, especially for low-income students.
Between the ears: Is teaching part of human nature or just plain WEIRD?
Washington State University researchers find that traditional African hunter-gatherers teach children as young as 12 months old to use knives, machetes and digging sticks.
Between the ears: Basic ideas from cognitive science not reaching teachers
A review of commonly assigned textbooks for aspiring teachers shows that few cover strategies proven to help students remember what they learn.
Between the ears: When to teach, when to guide and when to get out of the way
Teachers are sometimes told to be the “guide by the side” instead of the “sage on the stage,” but research shows that this is a false choice.
Buildings with fresher air linked to better thinking
A new study showing that office workers did better on cognitive tests when they had fresher air to breathe underscores growing evidence that physical environments matter for performance at work and school.
Between the ears: In the brain, Chinese and English are more similar than they look on paper
A new brain-scan study of college-age speakers of English, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese shows that the same speech regions of the brain are activated when they read, regardless of the language.
In class, out of court: How one school district triumphed over truancy
Sending kids who habitually miss school to court under the state’s 20-year truancy law hasn’t helped them stay in school. But a school-court-community effort in Spokane County is having impressive success.
Between the ears: Moderate anxiety may help math performance
A new study finds that kids who are motivated to do well in math perform best with a moderate amount of anxiety — too little may bore them and too much may overwhelm.
UW Brain-wave study: social babies get more out of Spanish lessons
The babies who learned the sounds of a foreign language best were the ones who were better at looking back and forth between Spanish-speaking tutors and the toys the tutors described.
Brain study: Noticing symmetry in numbers helps kids grasp difficult math concept
Tapping the brain’s natural ability to perceive symmetry in the physical world can help children make sense of negative numbers.
More green space, less noise linked to better learning
A growing body of research shows a relationship between the physical environment of schools and student achievement.
New brain study sheds light on how best to teach reading
Sounding out new words appears to spark more efficient reading circuits in the brain than memorizing them.