The University will honor 22 individuals, one team and one unit this year as part of the annual Universitywide awards program.
Year: 2006
The UW is launching a new national program that will consolidate its position as a leader in helping people with disabilities enter the world of computing.
Sariah Khormaee has been selected as a National Institutes of Health – Marshall Scholar in Biomedical Research.
ATLANTA — Rare metabolic diseases such as Tay-Sachs, Fabry and Gaucher syndromes are caused by enzyme deficiencies and typically have crippling, even fatal, consequences starting at very early ages.
Students who want to know what employers should do for their employees from both economic and moral perspectives will have the chance to learn from some of the region’s most respected employers this quarter in a new class co-taught through the University of Washington’s School of Social Work and the Business School.
The University of Washington is launching a new national program that will consolidate its position as a leader in helping people with disabilities enter the world of computing.
If you think you’ve got a bad boss, one who loves to chew people out, or if you work with backstabbing co-workers, be thankful you are not a wasp.
With warming temperatures as the possible underlying cause, scientists wonder what is pushing Greenland’s glaciers out to sea as much as 50 percent quicker than before.
A team of students from the University of Washington’s graphic design program has created a bold new look for the University’s specialty license plate.
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A decade into the information society, key computing and communication technologies are even more concentrated in a few countries, not less, according to a University of Washington report to be released today.
Lynne McKechnie, the first Visiting Cleary Professor in Children and Youth Services at the University of Washington’s Information School, will deliver her first UW lecture April 11 on the role of public libraries in the development of children as readers.
At its regular monthly meeting today, the University of Washington Board of Regents increased the salary of President Mark Emmert by 5.
The University of Washington has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over faculty salaries.
Matthew O’Donnell, chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan and a researcher who explores imaging technologies in biomedicine, has been named new dean of the University of Washington College of Engineering and first holder of the Frank and Julie Jungers Endowed Deanship in Engineering.
A new project at the University of Washington in collaboration with Syracuse University is aimed at addressing what is perhaps the most difficult problem in evaluating information gathered on the Internet: credibility.
Was part of your March Madness fandom a small, just-for-fun bet on your favorite Division I basketball team? Maybe a wager as a sign of support for the Husky men, the Husky women, or the Gonzaga Bulldogs?
Friendly wagers can be a pleasant, camaraderie-building diversion, and informal betting pools are generally legal in Washington.
A new model developed at the University of Washington provides an accurate estimate of one-, two-, and three-year survival rates and average years of survival for patients with heart failure.
Scientists analyzing recent samples of comet dust have discovered minerals that formed near the sun or other stars.
Harmful drinking is one of the leading causes of death in the U.
The UW Teaching Academy’s Institute for Teaching Excellence is offering 16-20 UW faculty a chance to reflect with peers on their teaching methods and goals in a weeklong workshop June 11-17 at the Olympic National Resource Center, located on the Olympic Penninsula.
Maya Lin, the award-winning artist who designed the evocative Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.
Scientists analyzing recent samples of comet dust have discovered minerals that formed near the sun or other stars.
Like an armada of small rototillers, female salmon can industriously churn up entire stream beds from end to end, sometimes more than once, using just their tails.
Several nationally-known experts on how media can affect the health of young people and how media literacy can minimize these effects, will speak at a two-day conference at the University of Washington.
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Starting a business can be a daunting challenge, but with help from a new University of Washington Bothell Center for Student Entrepreneurship, the advice and mentoring from faculty and professionals can mean success. Memorial service for Milo Gibaldi
A memorial service for Dr. Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus. You can’t always trust your eyes. New technologies are changing the ways we live and work, and few are more excited about these changes than teens and pre-teens. The UW’s combined choruses and symphony will present Mozart’s monumental unfinished work, the Great Mass in C minor tonight and again on Friday, March 10. Henryka Bochniarz, former minister of industry and trade of Poland and currently President of the Polish Confederation of Private Employers (Lewiatan), will speak on The changing European Union: New Challenges and Opportunities, at 1:30 p. The UW International Chamber Music Series continues with a performance by the young and exciting Claremont Trio. UW faculty, staff and students interested in learning more about the UW Police Department are invited to apply for the UW Police Citizens’ Academy. Still hundreds of miles from Hawaii, the Wright family was getting into trouble at sea after their fuel filters were fouled by poorly refined diesel they’d taken on in the Marquesas Islands. Two UW professors are among 116 outstanding young scientists, mathematicians and economists selected to receive Sloan Research Fellowships. When the people at Housing & Food Services installed recycling bins on each floor of the residence halls in January, they believed it would result in an increase in recycling versus throwing items in the trash. In a laboratory in Hitchcock Hall, two researchers talk softly as they huddle over a piece of specimen-mounting equipment for a confocal microscope. |