Posted: June 26, 2012
It's been a decade since a swarm of relatively mild earthquakes shook up parts of Spokane. Now, armed with the right tools, scientists want to find out what was at fault. Read more »
Posted: June 21, 2012
A research team led by the University of Washington and Harvard University has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet as they orbit very close to each other around the same star. Read more »
Posted: June 21, 2012
New research from an international team that includes a UW professor emeritus confirms that the Arctic has gone through intensely warm periods, warmer than scientists thought was possible, during the last 2.8 million years. Read more »
Posted: June 20, 2012
Faculty retirement innovations earn UW $100,000 national grant || Baillie receives American Chemical Society award || UW claims two Great Places awards Read more »
Posted: June 18, 2012
Nikkei Manor, an assisted-living community in Seattle's International District, has a new garden, thanks to 17 UW landscape architecture students and their professors. Read more »
Posted: June 15, 2012
The latest installment in the Lost and Found Films series -- where readers help identify old UW footage -- is a three-minute film apparently from a campus opera. Don't adjust your volume — it's silent. Read more »
Posted: June 14, 2012
A new UW Libraries Special Collections exhibit takes viewers a half-century back in time to celebrate a lively vision of the future. Also, two new photo exhibits are up: one depicting life in the slums of India; the other a look at volunteerism in Korea. Read more »
Posted: June 13, 2012
Need to do some serious multitasking? Some training in meditation beforehand could make the work smoother and less stressful, new research from the UW Information School shows. Read more »
Posted: June 12, 2012
University of Washington engineers and scientists are one step closer to deploying sophisticated equipment that will collect important information about ocean properties like currents and temperature and send the information via the Internet in real time to scientists around the world. Read more »
Posted: June 12, 2012
UW researchers adapted a parenting program to help foster families address their greatest challenges, including overwhelmed foster parents and a lack of trust between caregivers and foster children. Read more »
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