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MLK Jr. Day of Service sign-ups rise

As of Tuesday, about 900 members of the UW community had signed up to help on the Martin Luther King Jr.

Laughing out loud: UW’s man in the Legislature believes in comic relief

Randy Hodgins will always wonder what might have been.

Purchasing passes audit by government

The UW Purchasing Department has passed its latest audit by the federal government with flying colors, and has been approved for another three years.

Shen Wei Dance to perform at Meany

The UW World Dance Series continues with Shen Wei Dance Arts Jan.

January 10, 2007

New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water

The Atlantic Ocean doesn’t receive the mother lode of fixed nitrogen, the building block of life, after all.

January 9, 2007

Forum recommends incentives, innovation, investment for state’s forests

A University of Washington College of Forest Resources think tank says Washington forests are being threatened from within.

Earth’s strongest winds wouldn’t even be a breeze on these planets

Earth’s inhabitants are used to temperatures that vary, sometimes greatly, between day and night.

January 8, 2007

Superstrings could add gravitational cacophony to universe’s chorus

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.

January 7, 2007

Astronomers detect black hole in tiny ‘dwarf’ galaxy

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.

January 4, 2007

UW hopes for ‘breakthrough year’ in state education funding

This is shaping up to be a breakthrough year for funding of higher education and especially the UW.

Choosing the greater good in promotion of UW intellectual properties

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.

HEC Board approves new Computer Engineering degree at UWT

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.

UW a Recipient of the First Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration

The UW is one of 10 non-profit institutions to be recognized in the first annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration.

Alum gives History Department $1 million

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.

Law school receives $1.3 million to improve access to justice in rural China

The Asian Law Center at the UW School of Law was awarded a $1.

Microbe fixes nitrogen at a blistering 92 C, may offer clues to evolution of nitrogen fixation

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.

‘Speechless’ and ‘Mute’ help break the silence of the leaves

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.

‘Fighting the Fires of Hate’: Odegaard Library hosts exhibit on Nazi book burnings

From Jan.

Fraga to head Diversity Research Institute, recruit minority faculty

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.

UW-developed robot can check power lines for wear and tear

To your left runs a high-voltage power cable that is worn, but still physically sound.

You think it, the robot does it: Science fiction becomes reality

A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts.

UW Medicine mourns death of Dr. Harold Goldberg

By Roberta Wilkes
Department of Medicine

Dr.

Teacher retention in Washington State bucks common wisdom

It’s often said that half of all public school teachers leave the profession during their first five years.

UW staffer a new member of the state Legislature

When the state Legislature convenes on Jan.

Drive with pride, with ‘W’ on your ride

There are thousands more Washington State University license plates on the state’s roads than UW ones.

Safeway funds high-tech mammography clinic

A gift of $800,000 from the Seattle Division of Safeway Inc.

London bassist Thomas Martin to perform Jan. 7

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.

World-renowned pianist Markus Groh to play Meany on Jan. 9

The UW President’s Piano Series continues on Tuesday, Jan.

UW Medicine celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Two events in coming days will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr.

Mystery Photo

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

‘The Art of Aging’ airs Jan. 10 on KCTS

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.

Come together: The 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

The Rev.

Life Sciences Discovery Fund information sessions set for January

In 2007, the Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) is inviting research proposals from nonprofit entities within Washington state for health-related research.