Work has begun to turn the courtyard between Pacific Street and the Rotunda at the base of the Health Sciences Building’s I wing into a delivery and staging area for the project to remodel the G and H wings of the building.
Year: 2007
How caregivers of those with dementia can improve quality of life for themselves and their patients or loved ones is the topic of the School of Nursing’s annual de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging Spring Lecture on Thursday, May 3, from 3 to 4 p.
More than 900 scientists, parents and activists from around the world who are focused on understanding the causes of autism and finding treatments for the developmental disorder will gather in Seattle May 3-5 to share the latest research findings at the sixth International Meeting for Autism Research.
It’s somewhere between a carnival and a trip to a mad scientist’s lab.
“Inside the Undergraduate Experience: The University of Washington’s Study of Undergraduate Learning” by Catharine Hoffman Beyer, Gerald M.
Will Mari
University Week intern
Graduate school is often thought of as a place for lofty thoughts and ethereal intellectual experiences, but the Program on the Environment (PoE) offers a Keystone course that is anything but abstract.
Latin Caribbean music, Indian music, J.
A new product developed from technology invented at the UW aims to change the way you brush your teeth.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Applications Invited
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States.
UW History Professor Raymond Jonas, an expert in the field of European and African history, has been named the inaugural Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor in History.
Beyond cooing and cuteness, early childhood is absolutely critical to every human being’s development.
The one-two punch of global warming and a chemical change in ocean waters because of human-caused carbon dioxide is the topic of the lecture Monday, April 23, titled Global Warming and Ocean Acidification: Double Trouble for Marine Ecosystems.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Too many students in Biology 180 were floundering, so instructor Scott Freeman and his colleagues made the students and the course a research project.
By Sandra Sarr
UW Tacoma
Beth Rushing has been named vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at the UW Tacoma.
Joshua Kavanagh, associate director of Parking and Transportation Services at the University of New Mexico, has been named the director of Transportation Services at the UW.
Throughout history civilizations expanded as they sought new soil to feed their populations, then ultimately fell as they wore out or lost the dirt they depended upon.
By Shari Ireton
Law School
It probably comes as no surprise that the person regarded as a pioneering leader in environmental law has spent most of his career in Seattle.
For Sutapa Basu, fighting for social justice has been a constant refrain ever since her childhood in India.
TOPS IN PEACE: Washington D.
The UW School of Drama will present Tom Stoppard’s multiple award-winning Arcadia, directed by Tamara Fisch, April 22 through May 6 in the Playhouse Theatre.
This week Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed by the UW, leaves for its first trip to the Atlantic Ocean.
UW President Mark A.
Two UW professors are among 189 artists, scholars, and scientists chosen as Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
John Marmor
Alumni Association
A special UW Community Celebration for faculty and staff is one of the highlights of the third annual Washington Weekend, which will take place from April 26 to 28 at all three UW campuses
Washington Weekend is the time every spring when the UW offers a long weekend of open houses, lectures, hands-on exhibits and more.
The UW’s Sixth Annual Genome Sciences Symposium takes place all day Wednesday, April 25, at the W.
The Investigator Needs to Know (ThINK) seminar presents a two-part lecture series, Subject Recruitment and Retention: Strategies that Work, Wednesday, April 25, and Tuesday, May 8, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.
The 23rd Annual Hans Neurath Lecture will be given by Stephen C.
In the 1960s, Dr.
The 28th Annual Katterman Lecture, Profitability and the Pharmacy Revolution: Keys to Profitability in Traditional Pharmacy Practice and the Growing Clinical Services Sector, will be presented by the UW School of Pharmacy Saturday, April 28, from 8:30 a.
A ceremony scheduled for April 30 will honor the late Robert G.
Debra Schwinn, a leading physician scientist in medical genomics, molecular pharmacology, and cardiac anesthesia, has been named the new chair of the UW Department of Anesthesiology, effective May 1.
An international consortium of scientists has completed a draft sequence of the genome of the rhesus macaque, a species of non-human primate that is widely used for creating models of human diseases and infections.
This week Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed by the University of Washington, leaves for the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
Throughout history civilizations expanded as they sought new soil to feed their populations, then ultimately fell as they wore out or lost the dirt they depended upon.
University of Washington President Mark A.