New research suggests that the edge of the Tibetan plateau might have been preserved for thousands of years by ice and glacial debris at the mouth of many tributaries to the Tsangpo River. Those deposits appear to have acted as dams that prevented the rapidly traveling Tsangpo from carving upstream into the plateau.
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WHAT: The Pacific Northwest Center for Neural Engineering will host a workshop this week, sponsored by the University of Washington, the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research.
An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington (UW) clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a grant of approximately $40 million over five years to the Pacific Northwest Center for the National Children’s Study at the University of Washington to partner with Washington State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and local communities in Washington’s Grant County and Oregon’s Marion County.
Three finalists for the position of chief of the University of Washington Police Department will be visiting campus in October.
In a large group of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, depression was associated with a higher death rate from all causes during a two-year study period.
A report on the log truck industry just delivered to the state legislature indicates that the number of traffic accidents involving log trucks declined 11 percent while collisions for all commercial trucks increased by 15 percent in Washington between 2004 and 2006.
There’s a lot of truth in the old proverb “experience is the best teacher,” and apparently it even applies to 10-month-old infants.
The University of Washington received a grade of A- on the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainability Endowments Institute.
As college students head back to school with gleaming new laptops, some will, unfortunately, see the last of their machine in a library, cafeteria or dorm room.
Co-founder of University of Washington programs in Italy dies
An analysis of emergency medical services–treated cardiac arrest outcomes in 10 areas in North America finds a five-fold difference in survival rates, according to a study in the Sept.
The University has selected a new Song of Washington, with lyrics by Catherine Henderson, a senior in the UW’s evening degree program in the humanities.
University of Washington architecture and urban planning is renamed College of Built Environments
David Montgomery, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences noted for his study of how soil and rivers shape civilizations, has been named one of 25 new MacArthur Fellows.
The University of Washington Board of Regents, by unanimous vote today (Sept.
University of Washington President Mark A.
According to research conducted at the University of Washington, manufacturing firms can increase shareholder value by transitioning to services, but there are some important caveats.
Those wide-eyed babies are taking in and using more information than previously believed.
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be the featured speaker at the University of Washington’s 25th Annual Freshman Convocation, which begins at 10:30 a.
The University of Washington Board of Regents will be asked to approve honorary doctorate degrees for three members of the Gates family at the board’s meeting Sept.
A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed.
UW Medicine will host free Fall Prevention Fairs beginning Sept.
When the world’s land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn’t the forbiddingly icy place it is now.
The first study to include a significant number of aggressive girls with conduct problems indicates that psychological conditions including conduct disorder may have separate causes in the two sexes.
Researchers have discovered a submicroscopic aberration in a particular region of human chromosome 1q21.
While implantable heart defibrillators reduce the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest in patients with mild to moderate heart failure, patients who receive defibrillator shocks for rhythm disturbances have a higher future risk of death, primarily from heart failure, a new study has found.
Clarita Lefthand, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington, will receive the second annual Bullitt Environmental Prize at an awards dinner to be held Sept.
New research shows that black and white Americans responded differently when exposed to a video presentation that described Hurricane Katrina and then blamed the botched relief efforts on one of two causes: either government incompetence or racism, because the majority of Katrina’s victims were black.
The University of Washington will acquire an electron beam lithography machine, a key instrument required to build devices at the nanometer scale.
Latino voters favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a 3-1 margin in the key battleground states of New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, according a new poll released today by Latino Decisions and the National Association of Latino Elected Officials.
Having studied the physiology of algae for more than 30 years, Rose Ann Cattolico is convinced the plant life found in oceans and ponds can be a major source of environmentally friendly fuels for everything from cars and lawn mowers to jet airplanes.
The newest space telescope is the payoff for years of work for a UW physicist.
Documentary on the struggles of small businesses in New Orleans
Beginning this fall, the University will be greeting its new recruits face to face once again.
The University of Washington was ranked the 11th best public university in the most recent edition of America’s Best Colleges released today by U.
A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone.
Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same.
When entrepreneurial geneticist Craig Venter sailed around the world on his yacht sequencing samples of seawater, it was an ambitious project to use genetics to understand invisible ecological communities.
New UW research shows that bugs — both the crawling kind and ones you can only see with a microscope — are responsible for the heat in chili peppers.