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This quarter’s seminar series, “From Invention to Start-Up,” begins Jan.
As you read this sentence, an estimated 5 million people are using BitTorrent to download their favorite movies or TV shows.
WHAT: Demonstration of a prototype robot developed by the University of Washington to inspect underground high-voltage power cables for damage.
If a zebrafish loses a chunk of its tail fin, it’ll grow back within a week.
To your left runs a high-voltage power cable that is worn, but still physically sound.
It’s often said that half of all public school teachers leave the profession during their first five years.
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 University of Washington has lured a highly accomplished and popular political science professor from Stanford to head up Diversity Research Institute and help recruit and retain minority faculty members.
The next time you’re in the market for a new camera, it might be best to read about the product’s capabilities in a brochure rather than taking it for a test-run in an interactive, computer-generated virtual world.
A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts.
Contrary to a popular scientific notion, there was enough mixing in the early solar system to transport material from the sun’s sizzling neighborhood and deposit it in icy deep-space comets.
A heat-loving archaeon 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.
An international group of researchers has discovered that the mutated form of a gene called Palladin causes familial pancreatic cancer.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health has awarded $10.
The UW Libraries have partnered with communities on the Olympic Peninsula to create an unusual online museum that provides access to much historical material that previously was in private hands.
The traditional idea that immigrants cluster together in neighborhoods with their countrymen after coming to the United States and move away after achieving economic success is far from universal.
Seismometers in the right place at the right time detected the growing swarm of tiny undersea earthquakes that culminated in a volcanic eruption last January off the coast of Mexico.
A number of researchers in recent years have reported perplexing findings of water vapor at concentrations as much as twice what they should be in and around cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere, a finding that could alter some conclusions about climate change.
A UW team will lead a new $15 million U.
The University of Washington Press, working with the Department of Scandinavian Studies, has launched two new book series that include Scandinavian co-publishers.
You can bring the family and experience the charm of a 19th century technology that was the forerunner of motion pictures at the Burke’s holiday event, “Magic Lanterns and the Birth of Photography,” from 10 a.
UW faculty, staff and students interested in learning more about the UW Police Department are invited to apply for the UW Police Citizens’ Academy.
Class title: Anthropology 469, “Metropolis: Anthropology of the Modern City,” taught by Chris Brown.
We won’t let snow get in the way of giving.
With their own recognized association and a dedicated office on campus, postdoctoral scholars — “postdocs” for short — are raising their professional profile at the UW.
The first-ever wall calendar featuring the beauty of Washington Park Arboretum’s magnificent plant collection is now available at all eight PCC Natural Markets, at the Arboretum Shop, and online at <A href="http://www.
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of profiles University Week has run of UW staff members volunteering for agencies that receive funding through the Combined Fund Drive.
Most college term papers don’t make the national news.
For their 25th wedding anniversary, Douglas Louie surprised his wife, UW Tacoma Professor of Education Belinda Louie, with an elaborate, expensive gift she can’t wear, drive or even touch.
By Sibrina Collins
The Graduate School
This fall the University took a step toward its goal of building relationships with minority-serving institutions and historically black colleges and universities when it hosted Andrew Williams, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga.
The front desk came from the law school, the carpeting in the back from Housing and Food Services.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Invasive Northwest marine species, a house by Frank Lloyd Wright and the bungalows of Seattle are among topics covered by several books by UW faculty or about the Seattle area soon to be published by University Press.
Heather McHugh, a poet and English professor at the UW, has been awarded $50,000 in the inaugural round of United States Artists Fellowships.
Although there’s often a gulf of perception between the worlds of art and science, many artists use science for their creations and some scientists find art in their work.
The traditional idea that immigrants cluster together in neighborhoods with their countrymen after coming to the United States and move away after achieving economic success is far from universal.
The University of Washington Press, working with the Department of Scandinavian Studies, has launched two new book series that include Scandinavian co-publishers.