Chelsea MacLeod is using astronomical surveys and statistics to study the variability of quasars.
Check [...]

Tyler Robinson will finish off our first season of talks explaining how he looks at Earth as if it were viewed from another solar system. The talk is this Wednesday (5/19) from 7-7:30 in PAA 118 followed by about 30 minutes of questions and discussion. As always, no science background necessary, and please tell everyone you [...]

Last Wed, Apr 21st, Katie Murphy told the large audience (over 50 people – our biggest yet!) all about her work on urban plants. She mixed in some of the lessons she has learned working as a landscaper in the Seattle area with what she has learned in her research and classes. We are lucky to [...]

In case you missed the talk (we’ll the videos up as soon as we can*) you can read all about it!

Greg Scheiderer stopped by: http://www.examiner.com/x-30469-Seattle-Astronomy-Examiner~y2010m3d18-In-search-of-missing-molecular-hydrogen

*If you have a passion for video editing and don’t require any compensation besides a beer or two, we’d love the help! Email us (webmaster [...]

There are many elements to a good webpage. They include a good URL, a nice design, a blog, and, very importantly in the age of branding, an attractive logo. When I was in Portland, where my good friend and incredibly talented designer/artist/musician/animator Christopher Doulgeris lives, we sat down with a pad of paper and started brainstorming [...]

Rachel and Eric were interviewed for an article in the University of Washington’s News and Information publication, University Week. The article is available at http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?id=56140
We’re hoping that the article will raise the visibility of Engage and help spread the word about our free biweekly talks. The article talks about our motivation for creating the speaker series [...]

A few of us organizers are graduate students in the  Astronomy department at UW. We’ve been giving shows in the campus planetarium since we arrived on campus. Last year was the international year of astronomy and we opened the planetarium to the public for a series of shows that each presenter wrote on their own.

It was [...]