Jewish Studies gets $10 million gift from Althea Stroum

The Jewish Studies Program in the Jackson School of International Studies at the UW has received a commitment for a $10 million gift from prominent Seattle philanthropist, Althea Stroum.

Emmert tapped for national security board

UW President Mark A.

Workshop helps tribes revive native languages

A language is a terrible thing to lose, and that’s why nearly two dozen community members of Northwest Indian tribes and nations spent a week at the UW learning ways to breathe new life into endangered indigenous languages.

Telescope gets NSF funding

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a project in which the UW is a major participant, has received the first year of a four-year, $14.

Giving back: Evening Degree Program alums help those who follow

Robert Straub took eight years to get his bachelor’s degree from the UW in 1965.

UW researchers to lawmakers: Thanks for past, future support

The message from UW researchers to state legislators was clear: “Thank you! Your past support of technological research helped us greatly.

Tickets now available online for campus arts events

Buying tickets through the UW Arts Ticket Office just got easier.

Burke names UW veteran as new director

The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture has chosen a new director who knows the museum, and the UW, very well.

From UW to NY: A special play marks Sept. 11 in Big Apple

Without knowing it, the UW gave a gift to New York City to mark Sept.

WIFI access to be campuswide in 3 years

The UW’s Seattle campus will have access to wireless connections within three years, under the UW Wireless Initiative, a plan developed through discussion among campus technology advisory committees and the Board of Deans.

Visual transformations: Grad student photographer doesn’t let blindness shutter her dreams

Biology graduate students aren’t usually noted for their photography, but Anne Prather is different.

Committee named to create vision for undergrad experience

Provost Phyllis Wise has appointed a committee to develop a vision and goals for the UW undergraduate experience on the Seattle campus.

Provost names Cauce to new post as chief deputy

Ana Mari Cauce, Earl R.

Workshops highlight survey findings

Four Involvement Workshops were held with campus leadership groups to discuss the preliminary findings of the survey conducted by the Leadership, Community and Values Initiative.

‘The right thing to do’: UW reaches out to help in Katrina’s aftermath

The city of nearly 60,000 souls that is the University of Washington responded quickly and compassionately to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf states.

September 28, 2005

Children whose parents smoked are twice as likely to begin smoking between ages 13 and 21 as offspring of nonsmokers

Twelve-year-olds whose parents smoked were more than two times as likely to begin smoking cigarettes on a daily basis between the ages of 13 and 21 than were children whose parents didn’t use tobacco, according to a new study that looked at family influences on smoking habits.

Physicists say universe evolution favored three and seven dimensions

Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they are undetectable.

September 27, 2005

Faculty sources on topics in the news: BIOLOGY AND BELIEF

Nearly 150 years since Darwin, debate over evolution and creation continues.