Will the lives of young children be saved under a planned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulation requiring children under two-years-old to have their own seats and ride in child-restraint seats?
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The Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington is celebrating the 100th anniversary of flight with a lecture series that begins this week.
Seeking to realize the full potential of the emerging field of eHealth — the use of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management –the University of Washington School of Medicine is one of 18 sites to have been awarded a grant by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) through its Health e-Technologies Initiative national program.
“Rebuilding Iraq: America’s Role and Responsibility,” a 40-minute presentation followed by audience questions.
New laws protected salmon spawning grounds in 17 rivers, prohibiting the streams from being blocked with dams or fishing nets and imposing stiff fines for violations.
When one walks through the Paul G.
A major international event honoring the legacy of director Federico Fellini is occurring on campus and around Seattle.
UW Interim President Lee Huntsman has announced a set of initiatives, designed in collaboration with student leaders, to address issues of noise, disturbance and security in the neighborhood bordering the University north of 45th St.
INFAMOUS JOB: The UW’s botany greenhouse manager Doug Ewing has won a dubious distinction: His was one of the jobs profiled by Popular Science magazine recently as “the worst, most torturous, icky, painful, stinky, dangerous and just plain horrible jobs in science.
The College of Arts and Sciences is seeking contributions to the Aubrey Gorbman Lecture Fund, after Gorbman’s death last month.
The fourth annual Costco Scholarship breakfast raised $1.
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Several departments and other units around campus have joined together to provide support for the Bioscience Careers Seminar Series, formerly known as “What Can You Do with a Ph. The UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will establish one of three federally funded Exploratory Centers for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
The UW School of Drama’s Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) has a new head this fall, but he’s not unfamiliar to the students in the program. If you want to prevent your valued documents from becoming brittle and yellow, you might use permanent paper, which isn’t permanent but is likely to last longer than you do. When fires turn eastern Washington and Oregon forests into wastelands, valuable wildlife habitat is lost and it costs between $1,300 and $2,100 per acre in fire-fighting costs, lost buildings, economic suffering by nearby communities and degraded waterways, say UW researchers in a recently published report. Every day Tracey MacRae feeds the hungry. Jeffrey Ochsner is looking for a few good paintings. Welcome to a new academic year at the University of Washington. Partnership for Youth — the UW’s partnership with neighborhood agencies serving homeless youth — is searching for volunteers to help with this year’s One-Night-Count in the U-District. Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov. Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus. The UW is the lead institution for one of eight Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced early in September. “Medicine is full of complex information management problems that are worth solving,” says Dr. Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus. The UW is the lead institution for one of eight Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced early in September. “Medicine is full of complex information management problems that are worth solving,” says Dr. The market’s looking bullish in Balmer Hall thanks to the University of Washington Business School’s new Nasdaq trading room. The year was 1715, and King George I of England enacted laws in an effort to protect salmon runs throughout Great Britain.Today few salmon ply British waterways, the victims of overfishing, degraded habitat, harnessing water power for industry, and misguided use of hatcheries to restore salmon runs, which ultimately hurt more than helped. Strikingly, much the same scenario began playing out 100 years later in the rivers of northeastern North America. University of Washington Interim President Lee Huntsman announced today a set of initiatives, designed in collaboration with student leaders, to address issues of noise, disturbance and security in the neighborhood bordering the University north of 45th St. The imprisonment of more than 117,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry was no spur-of-the-moment decision launched in reaction to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Rather it was the end game in a long, deliberate process undertaken by the United States government, which was unable or unwilling to distinguish between citizens and non-citizens, a University of Washington scholar contends in a new book. Dedication and open house for the new $72 million Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. You’re in the middle of a major project when you get an e-mail message from Computing & Communications: “Your disk space is full. Delete something or your account will be shut down.” That needn’t happen anymore, thanks to a new tool on the MyUW site. A growing group of non-native English speakers in Washington’s public schools means a major challenge for teachers. But a UW center is sharing strategies to help those kids succeed. At least one thing became clear during a recent seminar: digital scholarship is changing the way things are done on campus. Participants said librarians will be at the forefront of storing and sharing information that often never makes it to print. Paul Burstein, professor of sociology and adjunct professor of political science, has been named chair of the Jewish Studies Program. On the faculty in Jewish Studies since 1987, Burstein centers his research on discrimination based on religion. Elections for employee representatives to the 11 organizational University Health and Safety Committees have begun. |