What's the Impact?
Year: 2018
Award Level: Silver
Award Winner(s): University of Washington
Award: Circle of Excellence
Category: Writing | Research, Medicine & Science
About the entry
- "Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear"
- "Flexible ‘skin' can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force"
- "Study shows high pregnancy failure in southern resident killer whales; links to nutritional stress and low salmon abundance"
- "Conditions right for complex life may have come and gone in Earth's distant past"
- "There's a deeper fish in the sea"
From the Judges' Report
Some really strong explanatory journalism here on an impressive breadth of topics – geology, history, marine biology, health tech. Stories are readable, relatable and immediate without being “dumbed down” for readers. Nice mix of regional-impact and global-impact stories. The articles support the university’s goal to adopt innovation as a mindset. The stories reflect the breadth and depth of research being accomplished at the university while using relatable quotes and intriguing descriptions that draw in the reader.