In time for the start of the Olympics, a kind of academic Olympics has been conducted by one of China’s largest universities and the results show University of Washington ranked 16th among 500 universities around the world.
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The Killam Fellowships Program, which is based in Ottawa, has expanded to the western United States, and the UW is one of the first partner institutions.
Leon Preston has been an athlete all his life, but he’s going to the Olympics this year as an official, not a competitor.
Brown tree snakes have come to embody the bad things that can happen when invasive species show up where they have few predators. But new research suggests that indirect impacts might be even farther reaching, possibly changing tree distributions and altering already damaged ecosystems.
Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults.
BOSTON — The mammoth increase in the United States’ prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males.
Twenty-eight University of Washington physicians working at UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics have achieved recognition in diabetes care from the National Commission on Quality Assurance (NCQA).
A research team led by University of Washington scientists has found that several people in South and Southeast Asian countries working and living around monkeys have been infected with simian foamy virus (SFV), a primate virus that, to date, has not been shown to cause human disease.
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989, but a University of Washington conservation biologist believes there is little outcry because the public seems to be unaware of the giant mammals’ plight.
After a national search, Eileen Whalen has been appointed executive director for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, effective Oct.
Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just biofilm – or slime.
Seminal fluid contains protein factors that, when transferred from a male to a female at mating, affect reproductive success.
Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica.
Inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. Dissolved sulfide minerals that solidify when vent water hits the icy cold of the deep sea have, over the years, accumulated around the vents in what is one of the most massive hydrothermal sulfide deposits ever found on the seafloor.
Carlene Anders and Gene Dowers celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in early August.
A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals.
Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade — being expelled, suspended or dropping out — were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age of 21 than girls who did not have these problems.
Today (July 17) the University of Washington Foundation announced that more than $2.
University of Washington President Mark A.
Insert your key in the ignition of a luxury car and the seat and steering wheel will automatically adjust to preprogrammed body proportions.
The damage to brain tissue seen in Huntington’s disease may be caused by an overactive immune response in the bloodstream and the brain, according to new findings from two teams of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and University College London.
With their waiting rooms crowded and exam rooms full, many physicians say they are too busy to be good communicators. Those who study physician time-management think otherwise.
Inexperienced investors can negatively affect their investment results by using “unfiltered” information from Securities and Exchange Commission filings, according to research conducted at the University of Washington.
Asian-American immigrants who came to the United States before they were 25 years old have poorer mental health than their compatriots who came to this country when they were 25 or older, according to data from the first national mental health survey of Asian-Americans.
Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to understand the role that steroid hormones play in the growth and maintenance of the neural song system.
UW Medical Center (UWMC) took part in an international broadcast and global launch of the World Health Organization’s “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” campaign Wednesday, June 25.
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a University of Washington conservation biologist.
Visions of future technology don’t involve being chained to a desktop machine.
More than 15 years ago scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its tracks.
Seventh-grade students in U.
A veteran executive of Seattle’s high-tech community has been named to lead UW TechTransfer, the unit that commercializes the results of University of Washington research.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has an almost 3-to-1 lead over Republican candidate John McCain, according to an early June survey.
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New evidence shows that the brains of adults with autism are “wired” differently from people without the disorder, and this abnormal pattern of connectivity may be responsible for the social impairments that are characteristic of autism.
The University of Washington Board of Regents today approved the creation of a College of the Environment, a unit with the potential to be one of the nation’s largest programs focused on environmental science, policy and management.
The University of Washington Board of Regents today (June 12) approved an increase for undergraduate resident tuition of $408 for the 2008-9 academic year.
University of Washington record-holding, ocean-observing robots that operate at sea for months at a time — traveling thousands of miles at the behest of operators on land directing activities via a satellite phone network — will be commercially produced by iRobot under a licensing agreement announced this week.
Harborview Medical Center celebrates the opening of its new inpatient expansion building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, June 17, 2008.
Authoritarian regimes around the world are dealing with troublesome citizen bloggers by arresting them, and they’re doing it more often, according to researchers at the University of Washington.