Sarah L. Keller, Ph.D.

last edited 2010
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Salutations

This page is simply a convenient place for me to list my personal links, rather than my professional page, which is found HERE. I am a faculty member of the Chemistry Department at the University of Washington in Seattle.

My background is in biological physics; my Ph.D. is in physics from Princeton University with Sol Gruner. At Princeton I studied how the lipid composition of a membrane altered the activity of an ion channel in that membrane using voltage-clamping and x-ray scattering. I then became a post-doc with Joe Zasadzinski back when he was at the University of California at Santa Barbara. There, I looked at other membrane and surfactant systems with electron microscopy. I did a second postdoc at Stanford with Harden McConnell and studied lipids in monolayers: how the miscibility critical point and the propensity for complex formation depend on lipid composition. I have been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 2000.

UW and Seattle

  • UW degree validation
  • UW Grants and Contracts Office
  • UW - Mack Carter
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  • UW per diem for lodging and meals
  • UW voice mail system and commands quick reference
  • Seattle Bus Trip Planner
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  • Seattle Light Rail
  • Seattle Maps by 'Lost in Seattle'
  • Seattle Exchange (Free) of Building & Industrial Items
  • Where to locally dispose of anything (e.g. compact fluorescents, smoke detectors) (Not only for Seattle)
  • Where to donate magazines - Urban Rest Stop
  • Where to donate furniture - to previously homeless families
  • Where to donate interview-appropriate clothes and accessories for women
  • Local Precipitation and Water Supplies
  • Will it rain the day you visit Seattle?
  • Traffic alerts for Washington State
  • Washington Trails Association
  • Seattle dance scene (everything)
  • Savoy Dance Calendar

  • Travel

  • Exchange rates
  • International Dialing Codes (from anywhere to anywhere else)
  • CDC Travel Health Listings by Country. (See also "vaccinations" at left)
  • Bed Bug Registry and Bed Bug Reports
  • Lonely Planet Guides
  • Multimap Bird's Eye View of Britain (try Clarkson Road or Benet St, Cambridge)
  • Maps of U.S. States
  • PCL Map Collection (extensive)
  • Sabbatical House Exchange
  • "Doctor in the House" accommodation London/Edinburgh
  • Airbnb, world-wide network of rooms, flats

    Kid Stuff

  • School snow-day listings (search for your district)
  • SEATTLE ACTIVITIES:
    Free Family Fun Day at the Wing Luke Museum (third Saturdays)
    Free first Saturdays at the Asian Art Museum
  • SUMMER CAMPS:
    Burke Museum day camp
    UW Botanic Gardens, 1st-6th grade, 15% discount to UW
    Woodland Park Zoo Camps
    UCDS Summer Camps
    Pacific Science Center (K-9)
    Seattle Aquarium
    Camp ZinZanni
    UW Summer Youth Programs day camp
    Arena Sports Soccer Camp
    UW Sports Camps
    YMCA
    Stone Soup Theater Only 9am-12 until can read well.
    Dance Fremont summer program
    The Center for Wooden Boats (ages 9+)
    Girls Leadership Institute, closest is in Bay Area
    Girls Rock Camp in Portland (ages 8-17, registration open Jan 1)
    iD Tech Camps STEM (ages 7-17, held at UW)
    Robinson Center summer program (5th-10th grade)
    Center for Talented Youth (after Grade 5, take test for eligibility, closest is in CA)
    UW Robinson Center for Young Scholars (Grades 5-6, Grades 7-10)
    NOAA Science Camp for Middle Schoolers (Grades 7-8)
    NOAA Junior Leadership Program Camp (Grades 9-12)
    Microsoft Digigirlz Day and High Tech Camp (High School)
    Girls Adventures in Math, Eng, and Sci (U of Illinois) (entering Grades 9-12)
    Summer Institute for Mathematics at UW (High school, after 3 yrs high school math)
  • SCHOOL HOLIDAY CAMPS:
    Stone Soup Theater
    Woodland Park Zoo
    Pacific Science Center
    Camp ZinZanni
    Arena Sports
  • WISH LIST:
    Quadrilla Twist and Rail Marble Run, Oso Pardo, Maze Ways Cat and Mouse, Klutz paper airplanes, ThinkFun Hoppers, HowToons: Tools of Mass Construction AND Marshmallow Shooter Kit, Bilingual Eric Carle books, Snap Circuits, Top Trumps, Kid-friendly Microscope, Immune Attack by Federation of American Scientists (PC only?), Crayon Physics (PC, not Mac yet), Fantastic Contraption physics game (yes, for Mac too), Prehistoric Park,
    World of Goo (recommended by Sarah Veatch)
  • DANCE AND KARATE:
    Spectrum Dance Theater
    eXit SPACE young dancer program
    Heard good things about Washington Karate Assn, Ballard Dojo (Greenwood)
  • RECOMMENDATIONS:
    Mike and Benk's List (PDF).
    Guy: Mouse Guard comic books, Reader Rabbit CD-ROMs (numeracy too), WII-Lego StarWars.
    Deborah's Apps: FingerPhysics, TanZen lite, circular TTT (circular tic tac toe), jirbo says (simon says), jellycar2 (8-9 yrs), artilect (8-9).
  • HOW TO GET KID/BABY STUFF OUT OF YOUR HOUSE:
    New Beginnings - Battered women and their children, 206-926-3034.
    Baby Boutique - For homeless families, 206-902-4270.
    West Side Baby - Clothing and toys for infants in homeless and low-income families, 206-767-1662.
    Treehouse - For foster kids
  • BOOKS:
    Brett (The Mitten); Carle (Pancakes, Pancakes); Hutchins (A Second Is a Hiccup); Sendak (Little Bear, Where the Wild Things Are); Mo Willems (Elephant and Piggie), Calef Brown (poems); Mr. Wolf and the Enormous Turnip; Math Start / Stuart Murphy (e.g. Missing Mittens)
    Macaulay (Castle, Cathedral, City, Mill, Mosque, Pyramid, Rome Antics, Ship, Underground), Howtoons
    Online lists of recommendations for kid lit: Berkeley parent's network for 5-6 year olds, 7-9 year olds, Age appropriate for advanced readers, including Discussion of gender issues, More for advanced readers (with summaries),
  • GAMES AND TOYS:
    Set, Tangoes, Rivers Roads and Rails, ThinkFun River Crossing, ThinkFun Rush Hour, ThinkFun Chocolate Fix, ThinkFun Tilt, ThinkFun Safari Undercover, Math Girl App, Castle Logix, Lab coat and goggles for 18-inch doll
  • DVDS:
    Schoolhouse Rock, Here Come the ABCs, Here come the 123s, Here Comes Science, Electric Company, Mr. Wizard
  • KINDIE ROCK:
    OK Go's Three Primary Colors
    I love to rhyme all of the time
    TMBG "Big Box of Free Things"
    6 Seattle Kindie Rock Bands
    Caspar Babypants
    Recess Monkey
    Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child and its Audio Archives
    Bill and Ella
  • FREE ONLINE RESOURCES:
    Self-defense at "Just Yell Fire!"
    Monterrey Aquarium Critter Cards
    Monterrey Aquarium Activities: see "From Tube Feet to Tentacles" and "Marine Mammal Flash Cards" under "Activities" header.
    BBC numeracy and literacy video games
    BBC telling time video games (bilingual Welsh)
    "Primary Resources" (UK)
    BBC printable worksheets for 3-letter words
    Cootie Catcher with 3-letter phonetic words.
    1st grade Math worksheets
    Addition worksheets
    1st grade English worksheets
    Telegraph Gridclub (5-12)
    Cambridge University Math Games and Enrichment (5-19)
    DuPage Children's Museum Math Challenges
    UCSB math circle problems
    Khan Academy
    Science toys to make with kids
    Science activities from Zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom
    Plate Tectonics simplified
    Activity pages at the Smithsonian
    National Geographic Animal sounds and videos and Animal coloring pages
    Time for Kids
    Singing Science Records
    Beginning piano music
    In B flat
    Poisson Rouge: Snakes and Ladders, Dot-to-Dot, Matching, Underwater Zones, Alphabet Pictures, Toybox.
    Between the Lions games: Smartydoors, The quiet machine, hopposites, skyriding...
    Word Girl MissPower game
    Starfall (early reading)
    American Sign Language, Numbers 1-10
    American Sign Language, Letters, Video1, Video2, and Video3
    American Sign Language Dictionaries: Signing Savvy, My Smart Hands (for kids).
    Sid the Science Kid (pbs)
    Electric company games
    Beginner origami for kids
    Spanish: Search for El Perro Y El Gato on YouTube
  • LATER
    Reign of Aquaria
    Rookie Mag for teens
    Digigirlz online instructions for podcast and web design

    Pleasant ways to spend time that I don't actually have

  • Rob Carlson's blog and tweets (see also Biology is Technology, GBN bio, Economist interview (click "Video Podcast"), and Economist/Shell "World in 2050" Essay
  • Gapminder
  • Information is Beautiful
  • Check out the Journal of the Public Understanding of Science.
  • Blog by Female Science Professor
  • Brotherhood 2.0 (e.g. 9Mar07 Peeptastic)
  • Traveler's IQ Challenge
  • TED: Ben Goldacre Battles bad science
  • iTunesU.com free university lectures
  • Hans Rosling and his Greatest Hits, including the Joy of Stats
  • instructables.com
  • Pandora web radio
  • Radiolab at WNYC
  • The Naked Scientists
  • PhD comics
  • Sociological Images blog
  • Making tortillas
  • New Dress A Day
  • NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, including Perpetual ocean, and its mirror on YouTube.
  • Reading/viewing queue recommended by others: Awkward black girl, TED on happiness (scroll down), Washington Post suggested lectures.

    Box of Happy

  • PES
  • OK Go videos
  • Car and Driver on OK Go
  • OK Go - 3 primary colors
  • Mukhtars Fodselsdag
  • Google Science Fair (Pause video, hit up & left simultanously, play Snake.)
  • John Waters' No Smoking PSA
  • Nice example of Balboa
  • Nice example of graphics: "The price of gas"
  • The Fucking Weather
  • Ramones v. Misfits pie charts
  • Festo bionic air-penguins
  • Correlation v. causation: Did Ava's cause the housing bubble?
  • CGP Grey talking fast
  • Jenny Ross and lab singing "This is how we do it."
  • Fotoshop by Adob'e
  • Natural Histories Project

    Random

  • pgp (pretty good privacy)
  • Beautiful Dead Bugs
  • Cake
  • KTRU RealAudio webcast
  • Adbusters
  • Buy Nothing Day
  • The Hunger Site
  • Amnesty International
  • Cambodian Schools
  • Hiller Photo Documentary Projects

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