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The UW has seen a steady increase in cinema studies and film production courses over the past decade. More >
Sylvia Wolf
An interview with the Henry Art Gallery's new director: on a fast track. More >
UW at the Olympics
The School of Social Work's Leon Preston is a tae kwan do referee at the Summer Games. More >

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Who benefits when the campaign turns to race?
Professor David Domke, an expert on the intersection of faith and politics, writes about the impact of race in the presidential campaign. Seattle Times >
UW spins off first biofuels startup
An East Coast investment firm is betting on University of Washington technology to create fast-growing strains of algae, an organism that could hold the key to the future of the biofuel industry. Seattle Times | Seattle P-I >
Bugs put the heat in chili peppers
New UW research shows that bugs -- both the crawling kind and ones you can only see with a microscope -- are responsible for the heat in chili peppers. UW News | Seattle Times | Science Daily | National Geographic | New York Times >
UW ranked 16th among 500 universities the world over
In time for the start of the Olympics, a kind of academic Olympics has been conducted by one of China's largest universities and the results show University of Washington ranked 16th among 500 universities around the world. UW News >
Abstinence: Teens, adults speak different languages
Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults. That's one reason why abstinence-only programs do not have strong effects in preventing teenage sexual activity, according to new UW research. UWeek >
New research challenges notion that dinosaur soft tissues still survive
Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just biofilm - or slime. UW News | Los Angeles Times | National Geographic | USA Today >

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More news from the University of Washington

Who benefits when the campaign turns to race?

UW spins off first biofuels startup

Bugs put the heat in chili peppers

UW ranked 16th among 500 universities the world over

Abstinence: Teens, adults speak different languages

New research challenges notion that dinosaur soft tissues still survive

Visit the UW