Tina Albertson, UW acting instructor of pediatrics, has been named a 2009 St.
Year: 2009
Two UW research teams have won the Life Sciences Discovery Fund’s inaugural winter commercialization grant competition to support commercial translation of health-related technologies.
Faculty, students and alumni from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy had an impressive showing at the recent American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) annual meeting in Boston.
Depression is common after a stroke, and can interfere with a stroke patient’s rehabilitation.
Nickels leading tight field of contenders; voters oppose bag tax, poll says
Researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electricity is carried by tiny structures that form inside nanoscale solar cells.
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India.
Health Alliance International received a $10 million grant to work with the Mozambican government in strengthening primary health care.
Researchers have developed a nanoparticle for imaging that is able to cross the blood-brain barrier and target tumors.
Twenty-one fisheries management researchers and marine ecologists — many of whom have been at odds with each other in the past over the state of the world’s fisheries — have collaborated on a groundbreaking paper that puts forth a common way to look at fish abundance and exploitation as well as identifying management tools that have worked for rebuilding depleted fish stocks.
New research shows that comet collisions most likely are not responsible for any of the mass extinctions in Earth’s history.
Western Washington is braced for unusually hot weather this week, but University of Washington scientists say this could be one for the record books, with Seattle experiencing historic triple-digit readings.
For the first time, researchers combine nanoparticles used for medical imaging and therapy in one tiny package.
Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind.
Washington Park Arboretum’s 75th Anniversary Event Series will shift into full gear later this month and in early August with two summer soirees open to the general public.
What do you call a mobile phone application that gives you the UW directory, an interactive campus map, Husky sports and yes, University Week?
Help The UW name its soon-to-be-released mobile phone application, and you could win an iPod Touch! Just submit your suggestion by 11:59 p.
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Board of Regents
The Board of Regents August meeting has been canceled.
About to be eaten by a menacing, shrimp-like copepod, gentle Dylan Diatom is saved at the last second when an arctic cod slices up through the water and swallows the copepod with a satisfied snap of its mouth.
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.
Natural history writer David Williams, author of Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology, will read from his work at 7 p.
Robert Hamby was in a deserted part of the ocean, far from any shipping lanes and his boat was sinking.
Can’t get enough of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition?
Well, here’s more: You Are Here, an exhibit by the AYP Rephotographic Project is on display at Architecture Hall through Sept 25.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Editor’s note: Federal stimulus money is starting to be distributed.
A new study from the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education and the education think tank the Center for American Progress questions whether extra pay for masters-level teacher experience improves student achievement.
Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning.
EXCESSES OF SUCCESS: Mark Sanford, John Ensign, David Vitter, Mark Foley — why did they do it? U.
For a number of years, UW has been a three-campus university; well, now it’s a tree campus university too.
Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification of and early intervention with children with autism, has been named the new director of the UW’s Autism Center.
For a new exhibition of photographic portraits from its own permanent collections, the Henry Art Gallery had a nationally known photography curator right at hand — its own director, Sylvia Wolf.
When Jason Dallas signed up for a course this summer, the Spanish major probably didn’t expect to be watching a music video of his favorite band, El Canto del Loco, in class.
Four members of the UW faculty have received the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.
TREE WISDOM: Forest Resources Emeritus Professor Reinhard Stettler has a new book just published by UW Press entitled Cottonwood and the River of Time: On Trees, Evolution, and Society.
New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade.
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
In the 1941 children’s book, Make Way for Ducklings, Boston police decide to stop traffic so that a family of mallards can cross the road safely.
Researchers have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago, dramatically remodels its genome.
Sixty-five University of Washington faculty members were among the region’s top 386 physicians in Seattle magazine’s ninth annual top doctors survey.
UW Medical Center (UWMC) is ranked among the nation’s top hospitals in U.