Researchers find that chemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to occur only on seashores, occurs at similar rates 900 miles inland.
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A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they bec
A King County judge dismissed a case from a faculty member to reinstate salary increases suspended due to the UW’s financial situation.
Adults who have both diabetes and depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, a progressive decline of thinking skills.
As a high school student in the 1960s, Michael Honey got behind the burgeoning civil rights movement.
OCEAN OFFICIAL: The American Geophysical Union, an international 5,800-member organization concerned with Earth and space sciences, has elected Jim Murray, UW professor of oceanography, as president-elect of its ocean sciences section.
University of Washington researchers have identified a gene involved in susceptibility and resistance to tuberculosis.
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The UW has to date received $191.2 million from federal agencies for research under the year-old American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Brian Atwater, a University of Washington affiliate professor of Earth and space sciences and a U.
A professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Coop will perform works by Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition, March 2 to 4, has student teams from around the globe pitching business solutions.
A five-person team sent to evaluate damage from the devastating magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan.
Project originators teach the journalism they practice: independent, multimedia, funded by a number of sources.
As large conservation areas are proposed in the tropics, social scientists say it’s local people who determine the success of such efforts.
The School of Drama reflects on the current economic crisis with a series titled “Looking Up at Down: Plays from the Great Depression.
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Electrodes on brain’s surface show that using imagined movements to control a cursor generates larger-than-life signals in only 10 minutes.
UW music students perform works for piano.
Editor’s Note: This is the last part of University Week’s four-part series describing the work of the Center for Experiential Learning.
ACING CASE: The UW picked up plenty of awards in the Council For the Advancement and Support of Education’s District VIII competition, starting with a Grand Gold in fundraising and special event publications for the program of the Annual Recogniton Gala by UW Marketing, Jo-Ann Sire and Creative Communications.
School districts can take steps to level out salary inequities caused by maldistributions of teachers, according to researchers at the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Yields from some of the most important crops begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 Fahrenheit.
Senior leaders at the University of Washington have decided to donate 5 percent of their salaries to the University in support of student scholarships and academic programs.
Close is one of six nominees and holder of the UW’s highest award for graduates
Surviving in an oxygen-poor, nitrate-rich environment makes some bacteria less susceptible to antibiotics.
material derived from crustacean shell and algae supports the growth of new stem cells.
With the escalation of the “great recession” a year ago, University of Washington historian James Gregory started getting telephone calls asking him to compare it to Great Depression of the 1930s.
Scientists have devised a way to explore how phase changes of matter from one state to another function in fewer than three dimensions.
Depression raises risks of advanced and severe complications from diabetes, according to a prospective study of Group Health primary-care patients in western Washington.
Baseball pitchers warm up in the bullpen and basketball players practice lay-ups before hitting the court.
UW research devises formula to examine just what types of change occur over time among complex and integrated structures.
The act encourages undocumented students to go to college and stay in U.S. afterward
The Husky Promise program provides free tuition for poorest students
Editor’s Note: Today University Week begins a four-part series describing the work of the Center for Experiential Learning.