More than 65 exhibitors will demonstrate the latest in research and technology in health sciences and medicine at the 31st UW Health Sciences Open House from 9 a.
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Provost Phyllis Wise will hold a town meeting from 4 to 5 p.
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The UW Specialized Center of Research in Pharmacology of Drugs in Pregnancy (UW SCOR; supported by NICHD and ORWH) announces the availability of funds for one year pilot research grants ($10,000 per award) on the pharmacology of drugs in pregnancy.
The UW will receive nearly $400,000 to educate health-care providers about the pharmaceutical industry’s marketing influence on how drugs are prescribed.
On April 18, Dr.
There are two kinds of celebrity patients: those who are well-known before they become sick and those who become celebrities because of their illness or how it is treated.
The American Lung Association will hold its “Asthma Walk 2006” on Sunday, April 30 at Husky Stadium.
Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, have been named as Magnuson Scholars for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Nominations sought
Nominations are open for the Scribner Courage in Health Care Award, named after the pioneering UW faculty member Dr.
Open houses, demonstrations, tours and art walks, lectures, performancs, sporting events and more await visitors to campus for the second annual Washington Weekend, Thursday, April 27, through Saturday, April 29.
Sheila Edwards Lange has been selected interim vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity, effective May 15.
Seattle scientists have developed a new method for analyzing the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) of the human genome.
Among the events coinciding with Earth Day this year are the College of Forest Resources’ annual Arbor Day Fair for area first- and second-graders, and a day of trail building and clean up with volunteers from the Student Conservation Association at the Washington Park Arboretum, a part of the UW Botanic Gardens.
Charles Mitchell, chancellor of the Seattle Community College District, has been named the 2006 Charles E.
President Mark A.
Karen Cheng, an associate professor of design in the School of Art, has written a new book about creating typefaces titled Designing Type, and will discuss it tonight from 6 to 8 p.
The concert by soprano Juliana Rambaldi, scheduled for Monday, April 17, in Meany Theater, has been cancelled.
The UW International Chamber Music Series concludes its 2005-06 season with the Daedalus String Quartet and guest pianist Byron Schenkman.
When the Department of Electrical Engineering first came into existence at the UW, electricity remained a luxury in many areas of the country.
The UW School of Law recently announced the selection of the inaugural five recipients of the William H.
Stabilizing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at tolerable levels may be possible using cost-effective technology that already exists.
Double bass player and singer Irina-Kalina Goudeva, with Joshua Parmenter providing live electronics, will present “Lavarayaha,” a solo spectacle for voice, double bass, electronics, visual effects, acting and dancing at 7:30 p.
The importance of educating girls and raising the status of women around the world will be the focus of a program next week featuring Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO of the San Francisco-based Global Fund for Women.
UW School of Law Professor Paul Steven Miller will be featured in Little People, Big World, a reality show produced by The Learning Channel, at 8 p.
National Book Award Winner Charles Johnson will deliver the keynote speech at the Friends of the UW Libraries’ first “Literary Voices,” a dinner where guests dine at tables with authors, one of the events of Washington Weekend, April 27-29, on campus.
The Olympic Natural Resources Center, located in Forks on the Olympic Peninsula, is bringing its annual research review to the main campus for the first time this year.
Chow down on pancakes served by your favorite UW athletes and rub elbows with alumni, fans and Big “W” legends as the UW Alumni Association and Big “W” Club hold their second annual UWAA-Big “W” Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, April 22, at Husky Stadium.
Innovative teaching practices of UW faculty and TAs will be showcased on April 25 when the Symposium on Teaching and Learning comes to Mary Gates Commons.
Just before winter quarter ended, Serena Maurer successfully defended her dissertation and picked up her doctorate.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Theater-like improvisations helped spark musical creativity when Seattle-based folk-blues singer Chic Street Man visited the School of Music last week to hold a master class.
Provost Phyllis Wise has announced a plan to integrate better those units that serve undergraduates.
With few of the Pacific Northwest’s 200 coastal rivers remaining unaltered by human development, watershed scientists are meeting this week to consider emerging policy issues and scientific challenges they foresee in the decade ahead.
The responses I’ve received from readers about my columns on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) graduation requirement are almost evenly split between those in favor and those opposed.
More than 65 exhibitors will demonstrate the latest in research and technology in health sciences and medicine at the 31st University of Washington Health Sciences Open House from 9 a.
Friday, April 28, will be a day for saying thank you.
This week, as construction fences go up and equipment is mobilized at the More Hall Annex, the closing chapter of an era in UW engineering will begin.
The UW again has been ranked first among primary care medical schools in the country, according to annual rankings of graduate and professional programs provided by U.
BOY OH BOY: An employment discrimination case brought to the U.