Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world’s oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago.
Year: 2006
Beginning in January of 2007, UW Parking Services will discontinue accepting personal checks for daily parking.
If you dine at campus eateries, frequent the espresso stands or use the convenience stores, the Department of Housing and Food Services is interested in learning what you think about food and beverages on campus.
A celebration of the life of Denice D.
A capacity crowd of faculty, staff and students generally agreed that incentives for conducting interdisciplinary research and teaching need to be increased, while some substantial barriers need to be lowered.
The Amgen Foundation has announced its partnership with the UW and nine other of the nation’s premier universities to provide hundreds of undergraduate students an opportunity to engage in a fully-funded, hands-on research experience each summer.
Medical/Dental open enrollment continues through Nov.
“Neuroscience for Kids,” an educational Web site created by a UW neuroscientist, has received an award in recognition of its value as an online teaching resource.
Huntington’s disease includes a metabolic disorder, not just the brain effects seen in the disease, according to a new study by University of Washington researchers.
By Roberta Wilkes
Department of Medicine
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What group of UW employees is 6,200 strong, crucial for keeping the University functioning, and largely invisible? Professional staff.
Sharing information on successful strategies for mentoring and retaining underrepresented students in the sciences is the goal of a symposium that is expected to draw participants from more than 30 institutions to campus this weekend.
Leila Gray
News & Community Relations
For each operating room procedure at UW Medical Center, supplies are carefully selected and set out on a sterile tray, easy to reach during critical moments.
When Sindiwe Magona was a little girl in South Africa during the ’40s and ’50s, she anxiously looked forward to the days when white folks’ threw out books because they eventually came to her, and she was delighted.
By Claire Dietz
News & Community Relations
Other summers, Araceli Vasquez had worked with her family in the beet fields of southern Idaho.
Gail Stygall, chair of the Faculty Senate for the 2006–2007 year, believes strongly in the idea of shared governance, and says openness and cooperation have grown tremendously at the UW in recent years.
By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
Orin Smith, retired Starbucks president and chief executive officer, has donated $5 million for the UW’s Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.
Where are we? The photo to the right was taken somewhere on campus.
A CAT PROBLEM: If a single female cat is left unspayed, how many offspring can she produce in seven years? That’s the problem Math Professor Jerry Folland was presented with recently.
“Americanese,” the film based on a novel by University of Washington professor Shawn Wong, is going big time.
More and more, Congressional candidates are turning to the Web as a tool to mobilize their base and build credibility with undecided voters, according to findings in a new book by a University of Washington researcher.
An earthquake swarm — a steady drumbeat of moderate, related seismic events — over hours or days, often can be observed near a volcano such as Mount St.
Researchers at the University of Washington are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement.
The Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington are looking for Puget Sound men and women who have an opiate addiction and women with suicidal behavior to volunteer for two studies designed to refine a therapeutic treatment for people who have trouble regulating their emotions.
Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world’s oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago.
Once consumers buy an item, it is often difficult for them to get rid of it, even if it makes rational sense to do so.
The state’s single most valuable resource, its smartest young students, are wanted by the University of Washington as it embarks on its annual hunt for the brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students across Washington.
Natural and manmade disasters, including the terrorist attacks of Sept.
PHILADELPHIA — If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you’ve been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to a University of Washington economic geologist.
On Wednesday, Oct.
In his book Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American, Peter Jamero, former UW assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine and social work, recounts his early life in a farm labor camp in Livingston, Calif.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Ann Lally, head of the UW Libraries Digital Initiatives, was looking at statistics for the annual report last spring when she noticed something interesting: The libraries’ digital collections were getting quite a bit of traffic from Wikipedia.
Faculty violist Melia Watras will perform new, cutting-edge music by five composers, including three from the UW, in a concert titled Prestidigitation, at 7:30 p.
The UW School of Music will offer concerts by two pianists of contrasting style next week.
UW Libraries and the Friends of the Libraries are teaming up to sponsor a student speaker series relating to this year’s common book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder.
Nominations for vice chair of the Faculty Senate are being sought.
The Growing Threat of Suicide Terrorism is the title of a lecture by Robert Pape scheduled for 7:30 p.