News Digest: School renamed, professors honored
Posted: January 4, 2012
New name: School of Environmental and Forest Sciences || Honor: Marsha Linehan || Honor: Ian Joughin Read more »
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A way to ‘feel human: School of Social Work fosters social justice, joy through art
Posted: December 28, 2011
The School of Social Work will host a public reception Jan. 11 at 4-6 p.m. to kick off an art exhibit featuring about 20 paintings and drawings by homeless youths in the University District. Read more »
From crate to plate: Students study how to improve campus access to fresh local food
Posted: December 22, 2011
Recipes that come boxed with fresh ingredients ready to cook? How about a monthlong incentive program inspiring a commitment to fresh local food? A design class studies how to get it done. Read more »
To turn up the heat in chilies, just add water
Posted: December 21, 2011
Hot chilies growing wild in dry environments produce substantially fewer seeds than non-pungent plants, but they are better protected against a seed-attacking fungus that is more prevalent in moist regions. Read more »
Upper atmosphere facilitates changes that let mercury enter food chain — with video
Posted: December 19, 2011
New research shows that the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere work to transform elemental mercury into oxidized mercury, which can easily be deposited into aquatic ecosystems and ultimately enter the food chain. Read more »
Robert Stacey named interim dean of College of Arts and Sciences
Posted: December 16, 2011
The University of Washington named Robert C. Stacey as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Read more »
Nitrogen from humans pollutes remote lakes for more than a century
Posted: December 15, 2011
Nitrogen derived from human activities has polluted lakes throughout the Northern Hemisphere for more than a century and the fingerprint of these changes is evident even in remote lakes thousands of miles from the nearest city, industrial area or farm. Read more »
Campus trees not available as holiday decorations
Posted: December 13, 2011
UW Arborist Sara Shores reports that people have been cutting trees and tree limbs on campus, presumably for Christmas decorations. For those people, she has one message: Dont. Read more »
Lost and Found Films: A Friday Harbor epic
Posted: December 7, 2011
This weeks film — and the last one for a while — shows what appears to be the UWs Friday Harbor Laboratories in 1958. People walk between buildings and some kind of experiment is undertaken on a small motorboat. Know any more? Read more »
UW scientist gets major boost in search for HIV vaccine
Posted: December 7, 2011
Dr. Shiu-Lok Hu and his colleagues are looking to generate protective antibodies targeting a part of the HIV virus that binds to immune cells. This segment is widely considered to be the Achilles heel of the virus Read more »
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