You could understand if a half-dozen Magellanic penguins developed a “big bird is watching” phobia before this month is over, but the surveillance really will be for their own good.
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Marie-Annette Brown, professor of family and child nursing at the UW School of Nursing, is the recipient of the school’s new Group Health Endowed Nursing Professorship in Chronic Illness Care, Dean Nancy Woods announced last week.
Before work on new systems and interiors can begin, the old ones have to be demolished.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers are looking for 60 Seattle-area women to participate in a study to test the effectiveness of yoga on quality of life, fatigue and weight change in women diagnosed with breast cancer.
The UW received more than $1 billion in grant and contract research funding for the most recent fiscal year, marking the first time it has reached this level.
Perhaps it was just a matter of sympathy, but tremors rippled the landscape of Vancouver Island, the westernmost part of British Columbia, in 2002 during a major Alaskan earthquake.
Erin Lennon, who will be entering her third year in the UW Law School, has been selected as student regent at the UW for the 2007-08 academic year.
Watch Frank Ching’s hands.
LICENSE TO GIVE: A 1990 graduate of the UW School of Dentistry recently became the proud holder of UW specialty license plate number W2007A.
A UW-based chemistry research center, poised to become a leader in science that will lead to new products and processes, has been awarded $3 million a year for five years by the National Science Foundation.
History shows many deaf artists and inventors, including Thomas Edison and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, UW scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor.
In very real ways, graduate students Tim Harris and Marisa Gaalema are already leaders, on the job and in life.
Susan Jeffords has been named interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at UW Bothell, subject to approval by the UW Board of Regents.
Every summer, the UW plays host to some of the smartest high school students in the state.
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The Board of Regents has cancelled its August meeting.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
UW Commuter Services is urging staff and faculty to take one car off the road by biking, busing or sharing a ride to campus during the I-5 lane closure.
The University of Washington received over $1 billion in grant and contract research funding for the most recent fiscal year, marking the first time it has reached this level.
Perhaps it was just a matter of sympathy, but tremors rippled the landscape of Vancouver Island, the westernmost part of British Columbia, in 2002 during a major Alaskan earthquake.
Political life in Muslim countries is surprisingly wired, according to researchers at the University of Washington.
Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, University of Washington scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor.
Erin Lennon, who will be entering her third year in the UW Law School, has been selected as student regent at the UW for the 2007-08 academic year.
Neuroscientists are attempting to understand if structural changes in the brain are related to sensory experience or the performance of learned behavior, and now University of Washington researchers have found evidence that one species of songbird apparently has something in common with a few baseball sluggers.
Up to 1,000 people are expected to attend the 3rd International Conference on Patient- and Family-Centered Care in Seattle July 30 to Aug.
A memorial service will be held for Dr.
When there are conflicting opinions in patient care, who decides what’s in the best interest of the patient?
Health care professionals from the United States and abroad will grapple with this question and others at the UW’s 20th Annual Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics, Aug.
On July 27, John Coulter, associate vice president for medical affairs and executive director for Health Sciences Administration, will get on his bike and ride off into the sunset as he retires from the UW after almost 29 years of service.
In 1999, the Academic Medical Center Service Culture Endowed Fund was created, thanks to an endowment from an anonymous donor made in part to honor the exemplary care a family member received at UW Medical Center.
For a lot of faculty and staff members at the UW, the waiting and wondering is over.
Former Washington State University President V.
Clark Olson was in Hollywood last week, along with a plethora of top professional athletes, to attend the annual ESPYs, a sports award event created and broadcast by ESPN.
Should journalists and other witnesses of traumatic events receive mandatory counseling or debriefing in the aftermath?
No, concludes an article published July 1 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.