Earth’s inhabitants are used to temperatures that vary, sometimes greatly, between day and night.
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Sitting in a classroom and listening to a professor talk about how the human body responds to the extreme environment of a mountaintop is one thing.
Virginia “Ginger” Warfield, UW senior lecturer in math, always knew she’d become a mathematician — it was in the genes, you might say.
Avian virus mutations
It was buried on Page 6 of the University of Wisconsin newspaper, Wisconsin Week, but it reads like front-page news: “Scientists find mutations that let bird flu adapt to humans.
Denise Anderson’s adventure as a volunteer English teacher in a small village in China’s central Shaanxi Province began when her husband, who was working on a remodeling project, decided he should stay home during their usual September vacation break.
Paleontologist Christian Sidor is unwrapping 260 million-year-old fossils with the same enthusiasm as a kid under a Christmas tree.
Many faculty and staff were instrumental in making UW Health Sciences a site of excellence in the second half of 2006.
As of Tuesday, about 900 members of the UW community had signed up to help on the Martin Luther King Jr.
Randy Hodgins will always wonder what might have been.
The UW Purchasing Department has passed its latest audit by the federal government with flying colors, and has been approved for another three years.
The UW World Dance Series continues with Shen Wei Dance Arts Jan.
The Atlantic Ocean doesn’t receive the mother lode of fixed nitrogen, the building block of life, after all.
A University of Washington College of Forest Resources think tank says Washington forests are being threatened from within.
Earth’s inhabitants are used to temperatures that vary, sometimes greatly, between day and night.
Albert Einstein theorized long ago that moving matter would warp the fabric of four-dimensional space-time, sending out ripples of gravity called gravitational waves.
Astronomers have found evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 54 million light years away from the Milky Way Galaxy where Earth resides.
This is shaping up to be a breakthrough year for funding of higher education and especially the UW.
A short, simple resolution recently passed by a campus committee will help more UW-developed medicines and technologies to be distributed in developing countries worldwide.
The Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved the new Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and Systems, offered by the Institute of Technology at the UW Tacoma.
The UW is one of 10 non-profit institutions to be recognized in the first annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration.
By Marilyn Kliman
Arts and Sciences
Donald Logan, a retired Seattle high school history teacher, has given $1 million to the Department of History to fund the Donald W.
The Asian Law Center at the UW School of Law was awarded a $1.
A heat-loving microbe capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth’s earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even preceding the kinds of bacteria today’s plants and animals rely on to fix nitrogen.
Researchers have discovered two genes that guide land plants to develop microscopic pores that they can open and close as if each pore was a tiny mouth.
The UW has lured a highly accomplished and popular political science professor from Stanford to head up the Diversity Research Institute and help recruit and retain minority faculty members.
To your left runs a high-voltage power cable that is worn, but still physically sound.
A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts.
By Roberta Wilkes
Department of Medicine
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It’s often said that half of all public school teachers leave the profession during their first five years.
When the state Legislature convenes on Jan.
There are thousands more Washington State University license plates on the state’s roads than UW ones.
A gift of $800,000 from the Seattle Division of Safeway Inc.
Thomas Martin, double bass faculty member at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London) and former principal bassist with the London Symphony Orchestra, will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Bottesini, and others at a concert on Sunday, Jan.
The UW President’s Piano Series continues on Tuesday, Jan.
Two events in coming days will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
As new research promises more effective strategies for aging, today’s maturing adults have more resources than ever to stave off the physical and mental decline that have plagued previous generations of older adults.
In 2007, the Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) is inviting research proposals from nonprofit entities within Washington state for health-related research.